What is it about America? Does America's education system just suck?

[popeyespappy]

The infantry makes up less than 10% of US Army forces.

There are at least 20 other branches of the United States Army. Unless quite a few of them make up a very small percentage of the Army, we are left with infantry making up the greatest percentage. Furthermore, it is 15%, not less than 10.

http://www.army.mil/article/45200/infant...d-demands/

My source puts it at about 8.7% in 2009.

For instance, in the United States Army of 2009, there were only approximately 49,000 Infantrymen[1] out of about 565,000 active duty enlisted personnel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry

The only other branch of the US military that has any infantry is the Marine Corps. It is the smallest service branch. If you add the Air Force and Navy that don’t have any infantry the total percentage is going to go down not up.

Things could and probably have changed some since I was in the military in the 80’s, but I doubt they have changed that much. When I served the non-combat arms branches of the Army outnumbered the combat arms branches about 4 to 1. Combat arms includes more than infantry. If anything I would expect the percentage of infantry to go down as the military becomes more dependent on technology. The point being that it takes a lot of people behind the lines to support a soldier in the field. Together there are far more technicians, mechanics, clerks, cooks, truck drivers and other support personnel than infantry serving in our armed forces.