[thecavemaster]

How many "aint no fortunate sons" are there that start out at the upper or middle levels of any business? The military is like any other business. You start at the bottom and work your way up. Do you think that General Patton or Admiral Nimitz started out as officers? Just the same as the CEO of Microsoft or Wal Mart. In your opinion do you think that they would hire someone right out of high school as a first job in charge of the Eastern region of the United States? You put down the military like they are the only ones who take advantage of the young and under privileged. The whole country does it. I would be willing to bet the whole world does it. As much as it sounds like you want to cut down the armed forces for taking advantage of youths, remember they are fighting for your right to put them down also. Just like what was said in the football forum about ref bashing. Sign up, put on a uniform, build your way up then change the system.

One other thing, you mentioned the Army and Marines. Doesnt the Navy and Air Force do the same things?

Are you saying that Private Menendez from Houston, Texas, child
of poverty, GED, is going to rise to Patton level? What you
did was to create a straw man, then destroy it. In fact, you
sound a bit like Colonel Nathan Jessup in that Tom Cruise movie.
PLEASE stop saying that the troops are fighting for me. They are fighting at the command of the President and their ranking officers. I did not send them to Iraq. You do not have to
become a member of the system in order to quarrel with the system...unless, of course, apparently, one lives in your
world...