As of 2014, the VA estimates there were 22 million military veterans in the U.S. population. If you add their figures on veterans to the active personnel numbers mentioned above, 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.  (Source:  https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-percentage-of-americans-have-served-in-the-military/) Read more >>>