I'd agree with his basic premiss, if and only if he had actually done the research or follow-up on the guys he said: "For that segment, who also had little interest in persuing a flying career, it was essentially a cheap joyride at significant taxpayer expense." From where is he getting this information? I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that that broad-brush approach may be invalid. As well, there were (and still are) many guys who did the full Monty, as for educational benefits, that never used those hard earned degrees. Does that make them wrong to have taken advantage of benefits that they had earned? I don't think so. I used every penny that was available to me through the GI Bill, and after three full careers, I can say that probably about half of the benefits that the "taxpayer paid for" were of value in the final analysis, while the rest was just water under the dam.