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...Bill of Rights itself had a backwash against reenlistment. By staying in the service, an airman deprived himself of thousands of dollars worth of veterans' rights, especially education. The Statistics Control Division survey showed that of the 80% refusing to re-up, 48.6% were headed for college under the G.I. Bill. The Air Force could offer little to dissuade them...
Houses & Wives. To find out exactly why airmen were refusing in droves to "re-up,"' Carmichael set the Air Force Statistics Control Division to work. Questionnaires were sent to every twentieth airman: the returns were interesting...
...reenlistment. No man is permitted to pick up his discharge papers without an interview with his immediate commander, who gives him a booklet laying out the advantages of an Air Force career. Even after discharge, the Air Force keeps trying. For 90 days after he receives his papers, an airman can re-up and keep his old rating. During that 90 days he can surely expect a visit from a persuasive Air Force representative...
...stories. Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There is an indictment in Marjorie Morningstar-of Noel Airman, the restless Bohemian...
These characters are not indicted because they are intellectuals, but because they are irresponsible. What Wouk is saying, in effect, is that if everyone acted like Keefer, armies would fall apart, and wars would be lost. If everyone acted like Airman, marriages, families and society would crumble. These are platitudes, but they are the platitudes (as Wouk has Willie Keith say) of "growing...