1. To those saying that today’s military is hobbled by a crippled government school system and lack critical, independent thought, I’ll say that it has been statistically shown that the average military member is better educated than the average civilian.
2. To those comparing today’s military to the Vietnam era service members, I’ll say that today’s military is an all voluntary force and therefore the vast majority, I believe, maintain a much more intimate view of exactly why they signed up and therefore, are better grounded in Constitutional principle.
El Cid ‘91
thaDeetz
“To those comparing today’s military to the Vietnam era service members”
The Vietnam military was (almost) all male and it was only 25% draftee (the army was 22% draftee in 1970).