Originally Posted by rickair7777

Correct. They are tapping an underutilized pool, and the fringe benefit is that it gives them a relatively captive audience.

The risk they are taking is that a young person may have a clean record simply because he hasn't had enough time to mess up yet. That guy is still going to flow unless he manages to get fired first, they way I understand it.

Also they are passing on whatever cultural intangible they get from an educated labor pool. Maybe they assume they'll still have a critical mass from mil and OTS.