We need to do more to support the middle 60%, the kids who aren’t college material but are not “slow”.
Military is one thing, apprenticeships and vocational training and on the job training are other forms of learning a trade that will last a lifetime.
If you can’t produce something with your hands (or mind) you have never produced anything at all.
It appears we both entered the AF in the same year. You beat me to FR Log in by over four months. Clearly a superior intellect. Of course I don’t remember how long I lurked, but that doesn’t count.
...and we both ended up in the electronics industry. Hmmmm?
...and I was born in TX in the forties.