Who Serves in the All-Volunteer U.s. Armed Forces? A Life-Course Analysis of Military Enlistment After High School
Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 and a life-course framework, this study analyzes how demographic, socioeconomic, and educational factors shape both high school students' aspirations to join the U.S. military and the subsequent realization of those aspirations within one year of graduation.