re: #247 Blind Frog Belly White

Another reason why I don’t automatically give military folks and veterans any special points for political acumen. Good reason to never, ever institute “Service Guarantees Citizenship*” a la “Starship Troopers”.

*Would you like to know more?

Again, that novel was not a political manifesto: Heinlein was describing the aftermath of WWIII, which ended when the warring nations simply collapsed. Soldiers and POWs were stranded wherever they were, and constituted the only organized authority to deal with the ensuing chaos that ensued.

“Service guarantees citizenship” evolved out of that.

And do recall, especially after Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Armed forces were ready to take nearly anybody without a felony criminal record out of need for warm bodies to fill the boots on the ground.