Study shows USAF makeup mostly white, male

Study shows USAF makeup mostly white, male

(EXCERPT) , By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes European edition,
Tuesday, January 27, 2004

If you’re a 29-year-old white, male noncommissioned officer, married,
and possess a high school diploma with some college education, the Air
Force has a word for you: average.

The Air Force Personnel Center has issued a quarterly demographics
report on the service’s active-duty and civilian forces, with factors
such as age, gender, race and education assigned percentages.

But while more than 75 percent of the active-duty personnel reported
themselves to be white and more than 80 percent of them male,
diversity does exist.

According to the report, 19.6 percent of the force is female. That
equates to 73,074 of the 372,305 airmen on the active-duty rosters.
Slightly less (18.2 percent) of the officer corps is female. There are
currently 519 female pilots (3.8 percent).

Blacks make up 15.6 percent of the force. Hispanics, liste...

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