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It makes sense if you consider that low income people are more likely to be in situations that are disqualifying or making it difficult to join the armed forces. For example to be tangled up in legal issues, non citizens, lower literacy/education, health inequalities.
E.g. https://www.goarmy.com/how-to-join/requirements:
All that means is that the person didn't have as good health care as a child.
Also that page is saying a highschool diploma is required and there is a limited number of spaces for people who have GEDs instead of regular diplomas.
So on the population level, lots of low income people will be filtered out and directed away on all these basis.