The AP On Military Education

The AP, which has pretty much given up reporting the news and become an editorial service, has written an article on why soldiers are reenlisting in the military because... well apparently they can't get a job anywhere else. While obviously a bad economy probably has an effect, they take the John Kerry education approach.

Roughly 208,000 men and women left the military in 2007. Some were rank-and-file warriors, while others worked in specialized fields such as satellite communications or computer networking. Only about 30 percent of enlisted soldiers hold a bachelor's degree.

Only about 30 percent of enlisted soldiers hold a bachelor's degree? Well, how does that compare to the population at large? Well, according to the US Census, 27.1%, or less than the military, and this is not even counting officers, who almost all have degrees. So why exactly did they add the "only"?