Reading news articles today one finds that the military is paying $40,000 signup bonuses, plus loan payments, and college costs and all sorts of incentives to get these young kids to sign up to get their heads blown off. That is how they met their quotas for recruitment........knowing young folks mental state is such that they are 'invincible', and without an immediate future, that is lots and lots of money; they can be 'cautious' and come out of it ok......you know, $40,000 will get you a new/fairly new vehicle, some 'junk' to have in your base home, blah blah............they are invincible--til they don't hear the bullet, or see the bomber.