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Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina
This is why I will never purchase a Stephen King book. This is from an address to high school students.
"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's not as bright,"
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I would not blame King for saying the truth.
He's not saying that military people are stupid. He's basically saying that if you're stupid, the only job you can get is in the military.
And sadly, this is a known fact :
http://www.slate.com/id/2182752/
“We’re enlisting more dropouts, people with more law violations, lower test scores, more moral issues,” said a senior noncommissioned officer involved in Army personnel and recruiting. “We’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get people to join.” (Army officials agreed to discuss the issue on the condition that they not be quoted by name.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/us...ewanted=2&_r=1
Educated young people (ie who have a choice between the army and a good regular jobs) are a declining proportion in the enlistment.
That also why the current incentive to join are so good, much more than in peacetime. You need that and more to have young people considers joining and doing x tours in Iraq or Afghanistan, instead of going for a civilian job.