now is not a particularly pleasant time to be serving. Not from what I've been seeing and hearing for the last 4 years.
Its not; and servicemen now fall into three distinct categories:
1) Those that are cruising home to a pretty good pension riding the storm with thoughts of outragious good times now long gone.
2) Those so new as to not know any different.
3) ...and those I feel sorry for. Who had a taste of the good times only to see them dissappear before their eyes all too prematurely. Who must now make the decision to grin and bare it or make off into a second and unplanned career which may not be any better then riding the storm.