The military does not consist of society's dregs. Rather, it consists mainly of young men and women who, raised in working and lower middle class families yearn to make it into the middle class. Unable to achieve this in the hyper competitive and expensive market economy they have instead sought to achieve it in the Army. With its guarantees of employment housing health insurance and medical assistance the US military today seems the last output of the welfare state in America.
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