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“During the Vietnam War, servicemen were typically deployed once, for an average of six months. During the Gulf War, service members were also typically deployed only once, for an average of 153 days.31 Today, average deployments last thirteen months, and more than one-third of service members are deployed more than once.”
― Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
― Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“It’s my belief that our lives are stolen from us. Ornamented with pinnate leaves and colored frills, we exist only as a consolation for others. I don’t feel fulfilled. Indeed, some days I scarcely feel at all.”
― After Alice
― After Alice
“In her 2008 paper “Who Joins the Military?: A Look at Race, Class, and Immigration Status” Amy Lutz concluded that “as family income increases, the likelihood of having ever served in the military decreases.” Further, she found “low representation of the children of the very rich” within the armed forces and that “the highest income quartile was significantly less likely to have served than the lowest.” She concludes that “the economic elite are very unlikely to serve in the military” and that the “all-volunteer force continues to see over-representation of the working and middle classes, with fewer incentives for upper class participation.”36 It”
― Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
― Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“Mitakuye oyasin—we are all related. So”
― Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse
― Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse
“A 2008 survey of 3,400 officers reported that 88 percent believed Iraq had “stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin” while nearly half thought Iraq had “broken” the military.33”
― Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
― Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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