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[quote=Anonymous]I have no disdain for the military. I sometimes work with DoD staff who formerly served overseas and now work at the Pentagon (I'm sure there's a name for this - or maybe it's just "veterans in civil service") all the time, and they are intelligent and collegial and all-around great colleagues. Especially compared to people from other agencies I deal with. I disagree with a lot of US foreign policy, like many of us, but I would never attribute fault to individuals.

The disconnect is that joining the military would be a huge outlier for the people in my personal life. No one in my family has served since the WWII generation. I can think of two high school classmates who joined the service after high school. I currently have no friends or acquaintances affiliated with the military outside of these loose work connections. The weird thing is, my family members and former classmates are mostly working class. Perhaps it's regional. The "smart kids" at my high school were in no way the children of ultra-liberal or elite parents, although some of them were Democrats. But service academies were never on the radar. [/quote]

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