Table B-4.  FY 2008 Non-Prior Service (NPS) Active Component Enlisted Accessions by Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT)
	Category, Service, and Gender with Civilian Comparison Group
	a.  Number
		AFQT CATEGORY
	GENDER	I	II	IIIA	IIIB	IV	Other/Unk.1	TOTAL	I-IIIA Subtotal
	ARMY
	Males	3,248	18,914	14,825	19,124	1,948	1	58,060	36,987
	Females	328	2,982	2,725	4,735	515	0	11,285	6,035
	Total	3,576	21,896	17,550	23,859	2,463	1	69,345	43,022
	NAVY
	Males	2,295	12,576	8,221	7,678	2	0	30,772	23,092
	Females	272	2,361	2,172	2,374	0	0	7,179	4,805
	Total	2,567	14,937	10,393	10,052	2	0	37,951	27,897
	MARINE CORPS
	Males	1,578	12,243	8,929	10,568	1,227	0	34,545	22,750
	Females	79	801	711	834	40	0	2,465	1,591
	Total	1,657	13,044	9,640	11,402	1,267	0	37,010	24,341
	AIR FORCE
	Males	1,711	9,998	5,681	4,086	0	0	21,476	17,390
	Females	249	2,339	2,025	1,649	0	0	6,262	4,613
	Total	1,960	12,337	7,706	5,735	0	0	27,738	22,003
	TOTAL DoD
	Males	8,832	53,731	37,656	41,456	3,177	1	144,853	100,219
	Females	928	8,483	7,633	9,592	555	0	27,191	17,044
	Total	9,760	62,214	45,289	51,048	3,732	1	172,044	117,263
	1997, 18-23 YEAR-OLD CIVILIANS
	Males	858,426	3,063,109	1,619,470	1,943,276	2,075,562	1,012,481	10,572,324	5,541,005
	Females	800,745	2,775,846	1,661,068	2,021,007	2,303,734	972,965	10,535,365	5,237,659
	Total	1,659,171	5,838,955	3,280,538	3,964,283	4,379,296	1,985,446	21,107,689	10,778,664
	b.  Percent
		AFQT CATEGORY2
	GENDER	I	II	IIIA	IIIB	IV	Other/Unk.1	TOTAL	I-IIIA Subtotal
	ARMY
	Males	5.59%	32.58%	25.53%	32.94%	3.36%	0.00%	100.00%	63.70%
	Females	2.91%	26.42%	24.15%	41.96%	4.56%	0.00%	100.00%	53.48%
	Total	5.16%	31.58%	25.31%	34.41%	3.55%	0.00%	100.00%	62.04%
	NAVY
	Males	7.46%	40.87%	26.72%	24.95%	0.01%	0.00%	100.00%	75.04%
	Females	3.79%	32.89%	30.25%	33.07%	0.00%	0.00%	100.00%	66.93%
	Total	6.76%	39.36%	27.39%	26.49%	0.01%	0.00%	100.00%	73.51%
	MARINE CORPS
	Males	4.57%	35.44%	25.85%	30.59%	3.55%	0.00%	100.00%	65.86%
	Females	3.20%	32.49%	28.84%	33.83%	1.62%	0.00%	100.00%	64.54%
	Total	4.48%	35.24%	26.05%	30.81%	3.42%	0.00%	100.00%	65.77%
	AIR FORCE
	Males	7.97%	46.55%	26.45%	19.03%	0.00%	0.00%	100.00%	80.97%
	Females	3.98%	37.35%	32.34%	26.33%	0.00%	0.00%	100.00%	73.67%
	Total	7.07%	44.48%	27.78%	20.68%	0.00%	0.00%	100.00%	79.32%
	TOTAL DoD
	Males	6.10%	37.09%	26.00%	28.62%	2.19%	0.00%	100.00%	69.19%
	Females	3.41%	31.20%	28.07%	35.28%	2.04%	0.00%	100.00%	62.68%
	Total	5.67%	36.16%	26.32%	29.67%	2.17%	0.00%	100.00%	68.16%
	1997, 18-23 YEAR-OLD CIVILIANS
	Males	8.12%	28.97%	15.32%	18.38%	19.63%	9.58%	100.00%	52.41%
	Females	7.60%	26.35%	15.77%	19.18%	21.87%	9.24%	100.00%	49.72%
	Total	7.86%	27.66%	15.54%	18.78%	20.75%	9.41%	100.00%	51.07%
	1. Service data for this category include unknowns. Civilian data for this category include AFQT category V.
	Source of 1997 Civilian AFQT Category Estimates: Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).
	2. AFQT categories are based on normalized test scores:
	Cat I:	100-93	Cat IIIB:	49-31
	Cat II:	92-65	Cat IV:	30-10
	Cat IIIA:	64-50	Cat V:	9-1