I would also suggest that if it can be statistically proven that there's a large number in the American armed forces, our armed forces should look at how we can reach those people and try to get them back into our armed forces, where they should have been in the first place. That's just a suggestion on my part.
I know of some professional medical-type people, like dentists, who have gone through these programs. With one in particular, I know the armed forces paid for all of their education to become a dentist. I would have thought it was kind of like a no-cut, one-way, long-term contract in the world of sports, because there were a lot of benefits to the person who was in the program. But my recollection is that a few years after they were out practising dentistry, they bought their way out of this contract. I thought it was a rather low price to be able to get out of the program.
I guess we live in a free country, but it seems to me that if people are going to get their education paid for and get all the benefits of those professional careers, we should make sure they are tied down for a pretty good period of time.
How does the armed forces deal with that issue?