Visit the all-creatures.org Home Page. Write us with your
comments: firstname.lastname@example.org People from small towns
and rural communities are more likely to serve in the armed
forces than those who hail from the cities. But why? Are young
people who enlist seeking tuition-free educations? Are they
pushed out of their communities by high rates of local
unemployment? Are they looking for a way to leave home? Or, is
it that there are more hunters in rural communities, and hunters
are more likely to join the military? The higher proportion of
rural residents in the military — and among those killed in Iraq
and Afghanistan — has been known for some time, but the reasons
for this phenomenon aren't completely understood. Two
sociologists from the University of Connecticut have concluded
that there's a link between military enlistment and hunting.
Hunters are more likely to join the armed forces. "The ten
states with the highest military fatality rates in the Iraq War
during March 20, 2003 through May 5, 2007,