>I think it was an excellent presentation of how insular life in the
>military has become; in about one generation, military service has gone
>from something that was common throughout many walks of life to basically
>be confined to a "military class" -- and it's not an over-class, that's
>for sure. I don't think it's a reflection of the US at all; to the
>contrary, it has become a very specific and small slice of the US. At the
>same time, the support system of 'friends and family' has become _more_
>accessible (via Internet and sat phones), reinforcing the insularity ("us
>vs them").
yeah. one thing i've learned, living in a town with about 5 navy bases, a couple of marine bases, 3 or 4 army bases, and 1 air force base I know of: a lot of people who went into the military went into it because their parents had been in.
children of vietnam and korean war vets, even children of the gulf war vets.
>I found many of the people the series followed fascinating and yet ...
>deployment used to be the uncommon case, with liberty calls designed to
>keep sailors grounded in society -- now deployment has become an extension
>of the closed-off "home life" ... I found it very disturbing.
>
>/jordan
i'm not sure what you mean?
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