There are currently only 13 members of the Senate who served in the military. In all, 97 members of the next session of Congress will have served in the U.S. military. That means less than 18 percent of the new congressional delegation served in the armed forces.
the layer of the earth resposible for the earths magnetic field is the core which consists of the liquid core/outer core and the solid core/inner core.
Earth's Magnetic Field. The existence of Earth's magnetic field itself is evidence that the outer core is liquid. The outer core is believed to contain a system of convection currents that create a dynamo effect, and generates this field.