A new Harris Poll shows that teenagers increasingly have lost confidence in a US victory in the war on terrorism or in the war in Iraq. The survey indicates that only 58 percent believe the US will win the war on terrorism, compared to 82 percent in 2001. Similarly, positive responses about a US victory in Iraq dropped to 38 percent from 83 percent. Americans teens also have shifted their views dramatically on whether the US will find and punish those responsible for 9/11, dropping from 79 percent who believed the US would succeed to only 47 percent today.
Promotions to the Space Force’s second highest enlisted grade, senior master sergeant, have surged to the highest level in the young service’s history, bolstering the senior NCO corps as officials plan to aggressively expand the force and especially the enlisted corps.