Active Component Non-Prior Service Applicants
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As with the other Armed Services, the USCG has entrance standards for age, physical fitness, maximum number of dependents, citizenship status, moral character, and mental ability to include minimum scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT). In this section various demographic characteristics of USCG active component enlisted applicants along with similar overall DoD figures and civilian comparisons are reported.
In FY 1999, a
total of 7,823 individuals without prior military experience applied
to serve in the USCG, down from 7,999 in FY 1998. The distribution
of FY 1999 USCG and overall DoD Active Component NPS applicants’by race/ethnicity
by
and gender is shown in Table 8.1. Eighty-four
percent of the USCG applicants were male (Appendix Table E-2),
of whom 78 percent were White, 6 percent Black, 12 percent Hispanic,
and 5 percent “Other.” For female applicants, approximately 75 percent
were White, 10 percent Black, 10 percent Hispanic, and 5 percent “Other.”
Additional statistics on applicant characteristics (e.g., age, education
levels, and AFQT scores, by gender and race/ethnicity) are contained
in Appendix E, Tables E-1 through
E-4 for the USCG and Appendix
A for the overall DoD.
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Table
8.1. Race/Ethnicity by Gender of FY 1999 USCG and DoD Active
Component
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Coast
Guard |
DoD |
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Male |
Female |
Total |
Male |
Female |
Total |
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NPS
ACTIVE COMPONENT APPLICANTS |
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White |
77.5 |
75.0 |
77.1 |
62.2 |
50.7 |
59.7 |
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Black |
6.4 |
9.8 |
6.9 |
20.0 |
31.9 |
22.7 |
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Hispanic |
11.5 |
9.9 |
11.3 |
10.9 |
10.2 |
10.8 |
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Other |
4.6 |
5.4 |
4.7 |
6.8 |
7.2 |
6.9 |
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Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
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NPS
ACTIVE COMPONENT ACCESSIONS |
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White |
83.5 |
81.8 |
83.3 |
65.0 |
53.2 |
62.8 |
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Black |
3.8 |
4.9 |
4.0 |
17.8 |
29.3 |
19.9 |
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Hispanic |
8.9 |
6.7 |
8.6 |
10.9 |
10.2 |
10.8 |
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Other |
3.8 |
6.7 |
4.2 |
6.3 |
7.3 |
6.5 |
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Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
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Non-Institutionalized
Civilians 18–24 Years Old |
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White |
Black |
Hispanic |
Other |
Total
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Male |
Female |
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65.7 |
14.2 |
15.2 |
4.9 |
100.0 |
49.8 |
50.2 |
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may not add to total due to rounding. |
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