Its not the people joining the military doing the protesting-- its the people who are already in college and have it paid for.
What's messed up is that these kids are infringing on other kids right to join the service. There are PLENTY of opportunities to get college paid for in other ways. People in the service want to be there for some reason or another-- its not like one day you just wake up and you're on Parris Island.
Once you get to boot, you have to want to finish or you won't make it. We had people quit during the 5th, 6th, 7th weeks of training, they just said "Sir, this recruit doesn't want to be here anymore." The Senior DI counsels them, but if they're shitbirds they ride a bus home-- just where I want them.
The bottom 15% of my class that graduated shouldn't have.