the point was that, for someone like me, many of my friends, several relatives, my former beau, and current beau the military does, indeed, off a future. when i was growing up, it was one of three things you tried to strive for: a job with the gov (civilian), military, or union factory work.
looking at it from the point of view of a snot nosed grad student from the ranks of the middle and upper middle class is, decidedly, NOT the point.
Kelley
looking foward to living off the teat of the US Navy