I served for 10 years and think that Military service should be mandatory. THe problem today is only the rich ( read officers) can run for the top office in this country. Get a working grunt a chance and there would be a lot of changes.
BTW my former father in law was involved is some of the testing on the troops mentioned in this thread. He had a few good horror stories about some of the fip outs that ensued.
Edited, Thu Sep 23 15:35:27 2004 by rosleck
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