Younger Individuals enlist within the armed providers for a lot of causes, together with the chance to achieve new abilities, get bodily match, and earn monetary help to pay for faculty. Probably the most widespread causes, nevertheless, is to serve the nation. On prime of the greater than 1.4 million active-duty service members within the army, the US is house to over 17.8 million veterans.
The sacrifices veterans have made for the nation typically observe them lengthy after their service. Almost half of those that served after the fear assaults of 9/11 say that they had an emotionally traumatic or distressing expertise whereas serving, and about one in 4 of all veterans say readjusting to civilian life was at the very least considerably tough, in line with a Pew Analysis examine.
Nonetheless, the identical examine additionally discovered that over half of all veterans say their service supplied them with helpful abilities and coaching for the civilian job market, and that veterans are much less prone to reside in poverty and extra prone to have greater incomes than their non-veteran counterparts.
The Augusta-Richmond County metro space, which covers elements of Georgia and South Carolina, is house to the next focus of army veterans than the typical throughout the nation. There are an estimated 54,770 civilians dwelling within the metro space with a background of army service, or 12.0% of the native grownup inhabitants. Nationwide, simply 7.1% of the civilian grownup inhabitants are veterans.
You will need to be aware that whereas many veterans selected to enlist out of a way of patriotic responsibility, many dwelling veterans didn’t select to serve and have been drafted into service through the Vietnam Struggle. In Augusta-Richmond County, these whose interval of service is confined to the Vietnam Period account for 28.1% of the whole veteran inhabitants. One other 18.0% of veterans within the metro space enlisted after the terrorist assaults of Sept. 11, 2001.
All information on this story are five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 American Neighborhood Survey.
| Rank | Metro space | Civilian adults who’ve served (%) | Whole variety of veterans | Veterans who enlisted after 9/11 (%) | Veterans who served in Vietnam solely (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hinesville, GA | 21.9 | 11,307 | 35.5 | 10.2 |
| 2 | Jacksonville, NC | 21.5 | 24,005 | 38.5 | 13.4 |
| 3 | Killeen-Temple, TX | 21.0 | 64,366 | 29.1 | 14.3 |
| 4 | Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ | 19.4 | 18,520 | 13.3 | 28.1 |
| 5 | Crestview-Fort Walton Seashore-Destin, FL | 19.0 | 39,238 | 17.1 | 22.6 |
| 6 | Clarksville, TN-KY | 17.8 | 36,244 | 29.5 | 16.7 |
| 7 | Lawton, OK | 17.6 | 15,582 | 22.8 | 20.3 |
| 8 | Fayetteville, NC | 17.2 | 60,970 | 26.7 | 16.5 |
| 9 | Colorado Springs, CO | 17.0 | 89,829 | 22.7 | 20.0 |
| 10 | Fairbanks, AK | 16.5 | 11,188 | 31.8 | 20.0 |
| 11 | Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA | 16.3 | 32,540 | 15.6 | 26.9 |
| 12 | Virginia Seashore-Norfolk-Newport Information, VA-NC | 16.0 | 207,174 | 21.9 | 19.6 |
| 13 | The Villages, FL | 15.5 | 18,647 | 2.0 | 48.2 |
| 14 | Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY | 15.4 | 17,235 | 17.8 | 23.7 |
| 15 | Panama Metropolis, FL | 15.3 | 21,209 | 14.3 | 25.7 |
| 16 | New Bern, NC | 15.2 | 14,023 | 17.7 | 27.6 |
| 17 | Nice Falls, MT | 15.1 | 9,183 | 23.1 | 24.3 |
| 18 | Pensacola-Ferry Move-Brent, FL | 15.0 | 56,550 | 15.3 | 25.9 |
| 19 | Warner Robins, GA | 14.9 | 19,920 | 13.8 | 22.5 |
| 20 | Homosassa Springs, FL | 14.6 | 18,362 | 5.7 | 42.6 |
| 21 | Cheyenne, WY | 14.4 | 10,592 | 17.4 | 24.7 |
| 22 | Lake Havasu Metropolis-Kingman, AZ | 14.3 | 25,050 | 6.4 | 43.1 |
| 23 | Columbus, GA-AL | 13.9 | 32,239 | 20.3 | 23.8 |
| 24 | Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL | 13.8 | 66,519 | 9.8 | 31.0 |
| 25 | Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ | 13.7 | 26,676 | 9.6 | 42.7 |
| 26 | California-Lexington Park, MD | 13.6 | 11,411 | 15.5 | 20.0 |
| 27 | Punta Gorda, FL | 13.4 | 21,986 | 4.8 | 41.7 |
| 28 | Watertown-Fort Drum, NY | 13.2 | 9,829 | 31.4 | 19.5 |
| 29 | Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA | 13.1 | 28,586 | 17.7 | 27.3 |
| 30 | Anchorage, AK | 12.9 | 37,357 | 21.6 | 24.0 |
| 31 | Gulfport-Biloxi, MS | 12.8 | 39,680 | 16.7 | 26.3 |
| 32 | Dover, DE | 12.8 | 17,242 | 14.9 | 28.0 |
| 33 | Goldsboro, NC | 12.8 | 11,699 | 16.0 | 24.3 |
| 34 | Manhattan, KS | 12.6 | 11,496 | 34.5 | 18.9 |
| 35 | Speedy Metropolis, SD | 12.5 | 13,283 | 15.4 | 29.0 |
| 36 | Ocala, FL | 12.3 | 36,149 | 6.4 | 36.9 |
| 37 | Grants Move, OR | 12.3 | 8,638 | 9.5 | 39.2 |
| 38 | Jacksonville, FL | 12.1 | 142,111 | 15.9 | 24.6 |
| 39 | Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | 12.0 | 54,770 | 18.0 | 28.1 |
| 40 | Wichita Falls, TX | 11.9 | 13,256 | 22.9 | 25.8 |
| 41 | Sumter, SC | 11.9 | 12,505 | 18.3 | 27.3 |
| 42 | Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC | 11.8 | 20,397 | 12.4 | 34.0 |
| 43 | Sebastian-Vero Seashore, FL | 11.7 | 15,362 | 4.4 | 37.3 |
| 44 | Sebring-Avon Park, FL | 11.5 | 10,026 | 3.1 | 37.0 |
| 45 | Longview, WA | 11.3 | 9,468 | 9.7 | 38.3 |
| 46 | Deltona-Daytona Seashore-Ormond Seashore, FL | 11.2 | 60,761 | 10.1 | 36.3 |
| 47 | Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL | 11.2 | 19,174 | 10.9 | 40.6 |
| 48 | Charleston-North Charleston, SC | 11.0 | 67,058 | 15.8 | 26.7 |
| 49 | Huntsville, AL | 11.0 | 39,804 | 15.1 | 24.6 |
| 50 | Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA | 10.9 | 10,744 | 13.6 | 34.1 |