From: Peter Attia Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 1:30 PM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Another reason to give a shit? http://www=economist.com/news/united-states/21676778-failures-iraq-and-afghanistan-ha=e-widened-gulf-between- most-americans-and-armed?fsrc=scnitwite/pe/ed/who=illfightthenextwar <http://www.econom ist.com/news/united - stat=s/21676778-fail ures-i raq-and-afghanistan-have-widened-gulf-between-most-am =ricans-and- armed ?fsrc=scnitwite/pe/ed/whowil Ifightthenextwar> CRUISING a Walmart in Clayton County, Georgia, with Sergeant Russel= Haney of US army recruiting, it would be easy to think most Americans are=aching to serve Uncle Sam. Almost every teenager or 20-something he hails, in his cheery Tennessee drawl, amid the mounds of plastic bucket= and cut-price tortilla chips, appears tempted by his offer. Lemeanfa, a 1=-year-old former football star, says he is halfway sold on it; Dseanna, an=18-year-old shopper, says she is too, provided she won't have to go to war. Serving in the coffee sho=, Archel and Lily, a brother and sister from the US Virgin Islands, listen=greedily to the education, training and other benefits the recruiting serg=ant reels off. "You don't want a job, you want a career!" he tells them, as a passer-by thrusts a packet o= cookies into his hands, to thank him for his service.</=> Southern, poorer than the national average, mostly black and with l=ngstanding ties to the army, the inhabitants of Clayton County are among t=e army's likeliest recruits. Last year they furnished it with more soldiers than most of the rest of the greater Atlanta area pu= together. Yet Sergeant's Haney's battalion, which is responsi=le for it, still failed to make its annual recruiting target—and a d=y out with the unit suggests why. Much of the friendly reception for Sergeant Haney he puts down to f=ne southern manners; in fact, no one in Walmart is likely to enlist. Lemea=fa has a tattoo behind his ear, an immediate disqualifier. Dsea