CNN just said that the percentage of our soldiers with a high school diploma has been dropping steadily in recent years. People appear to be surprised by this. It doesn’t surprise me at all. In a time when university graduates ask, “Would you like fries with your burger?” I would be disinclined to go into debt for however many years it would take me to repay student loans, (years and years) just to become another counter flunky. All the jobs that require a college degree are now in India, China,... Sign in to see full entry.