Ron,
I read statistic somewhere that most who join come from families in the lower 1/3 economically.
Surprising fact is that during Vietnam, draftees had a higher education over all than those who joined. You could get an educational deferrement until you graduated. So, a lot of guys didn't get drafted in the early part of Nam until they had an education to some degree.
And Ron,
I believe that the majority of the officers I worked with were fine men. Of course there are jerks in every field. I remember when I getting out of the Army I went to turn in my wool shirt and pants which had been issued to me for guard duty at Ft. Devens. This supply Sergeant said I stolen those wools because they weren't on my supply chart. I beng an E-5 said, if I was stealing them why am I turning them in. Then he said, what made him really mad was that if he took my wools it would mess up his entire books and he wasn't about to have his books messed up. So he said get those things out of here. I did and took them home. They made good hunting pants for years. But, he was such a jerk and the error was made by his supply staff and not me, but he was toooooooo little of a man to admit that some one in his supervision had made a mistake. He was a real jerk. But I got some nice wool pants out of the deal.
Keith
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