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XVI. Life in the Military<br />
• Over 15 million men (draftees = 10 million)<br />
• War broaden horizons; vets make contact with<br />
different races, ethnic groups, regions<br />
• 350,000 women volunteer as clerks/nurses<br />
• Poor whites compose most combat units<br />
• Combat = carnage from high tech weapons<br />
• 300,000 combat deaths; 1 million wounded<br />
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