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Definitely a fun read. Not a lot of deep social insight and some things seemed pretty improbable. I mean, aside from the usual SF "would you really be able to transfer people to a new body" kind of improbable. The biggest thing that got me is that they got ANYBODY to sign up. The background is that nobody who is on Earth has seen anybody in the CDF, even the people who work the recruiting stations. Nobody really knows what's supposed to happen to them. How do they know it's not a Soylent Green supply stream? I just doubt that that much uncertainty about the future would be overwhelmed by even a 75 year old's sense of mortality.
And why do the Special Forces have to be derived from dead people's DNA? They've already got the samples from the living recruits, what's stopping them from using that? And what's stopping them from making a few hundred (or hundred thousand) Janes if there's some kind of legal reason they can't use a living individual's DNA? Or as recruits get offed, go back and use that person's DNA to make another one?
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