We have 23 year old Lieutenants and Sergeants making street level decisions that determine if Americans are going to live or die. They do more than bloviate about the brilliance of Noam Chomsky. I'd rather have one of those soldiers on my side than some pampered, lazy, college educated snob any day of the week.
All of this coming from John F'n Kerry who discovered some rarely used loop hole to escape service. He used his position as a Jr. officer to award himself a bunch of phony medals so that he could bail on his men. Real leader of men there huh?
Amen to that. In fact, why anyone thinks today's colleges or universities are places of higher learning is a mystery; the curriculums at some of our major colleges and universities border on absurd---especially the curriculums of humanities majors. In my opinion, a bosun's mate who can secure a ship in high seas is worth far more than some limp-wristed Mary who pulled a 4.0 in a sociology major.