None of that surprises me. When I graduated HS (in Iowa) the draft was over and if you did not have to go why would you. Decent factory jobs were available for HS grads and I got a very good job at the age of eighteen working at Proctor and Gamble but you might as well have been sending me to prison for eight hours a day. I quit and enlisted in the Army and it was where I belonged. I grew up a lot during the four years that I served. I advanced as far as I could as fast as I could and then I got out. I am glad to hear that it is hard to get into the service, this was not exactly the case right after Vietnam. We do not need soldiers who do not have their hearts and minds in the right place.
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