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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf
Note that in Heinlein, "federal service" =/= "military service", and in fact it's pointed out that most people who sign up for Federal Service wind up processing paperwork in some back room or something equally unglamorous for their two-year term.
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Heinlein certainly asserted as much in an essay he wrote for
Expanded Universe in 1980. But if it's pointed out in the 1958 novel I'd like you to indicate the relevant passage.
For the controversy, see James Gifford's [url=https://www.nitrosyncretic.com/pdfs/nature_of_fedsvc_1996.pdf]The Nature of “Federal Service”in Robert A. Heinlein’s
Starship Troopers[url].