[BitDrifter]

I beleive the premise of the article has merit.

[vpintheak]

It won't sap any support from the military. What it will sap is support of the government tit that people have gotten used to suckling on. It's the cold hard truth. If anyone gets mad at the military for moving out, they didn't have real support for the military in the first place.

[KeyWest]

The local Brunswick rag, the Times Record, is so left wing it drowns out the sound of the P3s. Hold a rally with 200 people supporting the war and nothing in the paper. Hold one with 3 opposed and front page news.

BTW. The anti-war group can be counted on to protest everything that was protested back in the 60s. They look like the hippy branch of the AARP.

[Paul Ross]

Agreed. This is a serious concern that is only being accentuated in a large number of other fields...as we depend on fewer and fewer specialists to take care of business, so to speak, from the military, and its essential political base of support, to science, and industry, where policy makers and a good chunk of the public show no comprehension of the essentials to amintain competitiveness... We are losing "connection" as a society to what it takes.

The right stuff is being phased as out as duplicative. Pretty soon, there won't be any more large groups of people with the right stuff.