Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
As of 2014, the VA estimates there were 22 million military veterans in the U.S. population. If you add their figures on veterans to the active personnel numbers mentioned above, 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives. recently heard someone throw around the statistic that only about 2 percent of all living Americans have served in the military.
BY JOHN A. GALE, M.S., AND HILDA R. HEADY, MSW, ACSW. mericans from rural areas, in which 20 percent of our population. resides, have historically answered the call to military service at. higher rates than residents of urban communities. Over 44 percent. of recruits come from rural areas compared to 14 percent from major cit -. ies.1 Due to their higher rates of military service, rural Americans repre -. sent a significant proportion of the veteran population, with 30 percent of. U.S. veterans living in rural areas. 2 This figure is expected to increase in. the years to come.