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This must be an academic study; everyone knows the Marines can't read.
I want to come in and huff and puff and refute this, but legit my dad didn't learn to read until after he left the corp.
I remember when I was considering joining the military, and my own grandfather, who was a fairly proud Marine veteran, told me any branch was fine except the Marine Corps.
Curious, I asked him why exclude his own branch.
And he said "Because they don't teach you anything for civilian life."
I imagine he was thinking of more technical jobs in, say, the Army, since it's doubtful that an 11B was going to be taught more civilian skills than he was (I was a smart lad, and he probably figured I would get something far from infantry in any case). But that always stuck with me with a sense of sadness.
I don't know if it's still this way, but in the early 2000s the Marines used to not provide any guaranteed shot at a specific job in their initial contract. Marines had a lot more hurdles trying to slot into a specific job they were after, in some cases basically just being barred from what they wanted until it was time to sign a re-enlistment contract which was the only time they had any real leverage to force the issue.
The Army allowed people a guaranteed chance, assuming the person met all the pre-reqs to sign up for anything. Somebody could sign up for specific technical job if they had a civilian post-military career in mind. People could even sign up for Special Forces right off the street. Of course it just guaranteed giving people a chance at the job and a lot of high demand job contracts were actually pipelines to terrible jobs assigned by the Army when the person failed.
Both systems ended up with a lot of jaded people who ended up in jobs they didn't want.