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.
Scientists believe the magnetic field is generated deep inside the Earth where the heat of the planet's solid inner core churns a liquid outer core of iron and nickel. The solid inner core is thought to be a mass of iron about the size of the moon that is heated to several thousand degrees Fahrenheit.