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Local Military Recruitment Data
by david Monday, Nov. 07, 2005 at 5:34 PM
david@indypgh.org

A snippet of PA and Allegheny County recruitment data from the National Priorities Project database.

The National Priorities Project has a new searchable database that contains recruitment data for the Army, Navy and Air Force for 2004. Here are some stats:

* Total number of recruits from PA: 5,756

* Allegheny County had 541 recruits, second only to Philadelphia County (561).

* Allegheny County's recruitment rate was .5% (5 recruits per thousand of the 18-24 year-old population), which is on par with the national average.

* Zipcode 15213 (Pitt/CMU) had 11 recruits.

* Army Recruits for Pittsburgh High Schools (no data for Navy, AF, etc.):

CARRICK HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 1
FOX CHAPEL AREA SHS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 4
KEYSTONE OAKS HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 4
LANGLEY HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 4
MT LEBANON SHS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 3
NORTH HILLS SHS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 4
OLIVER HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 8
PEABODY HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 1
PENN HILLS SHS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 5
PLUM SHS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 2
SCHENLEY HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 4
SHALER AREA HS (PITTSBURGH, PA) 7

See http://database.nationalpriorities.org for more details.