Congress to get needed injection of members with military experience

Published October 5, 2014 9:00pm ET



Rarely has a Congress so needed an infusion of men and women with military experience as this House and Senate.

Fewer than 110 members of the current Congress have served in uniform, and that compares to a high of approximately 400 in the mid-1970s as the “Greatest Generation” made its way from battlefields to Capitol Hill.

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