each and every one of you has cost the gov’ment, counting weapons, armor, ammo, instrumentation, and training, everything, including the way you overeat — has cost, on the hoof, better’n half a million.
~3,750,000 in 2021 dollars for anybody curious, I'm too lazy to check how it compares to real world infantry.
A boy who gets a ‘C-minus’ in Appreciation of Television can’t be all bad.
A boy who gets a ‘C-minus’ in Appreciation of Television can’t be all bad.
This is, I think, one of my favorite 'jokes' in the whole book. And having just read 'Stranger in a Strange Land', Heinlen is fantastic at this when he's not preaching at you (and sometimes even when he is.)
~3,750,000 in 2021 dollars for anybody curious, I'm too lazy to check how it compares to real world infantry.
I want to know more about this curriculum.
This is, I think, one of my favorite 'jokes' in the whole book. And having just read 'Stranger in a Strange Land', Heinlen is fantastic at this when he's not preaching at you (and sometimes even when he is.)