It’s cool and all that that worked for you, but you are right, you don’t know their situations. You don’t know what state they lived in. Or the utter lack of education and available information on these types of programs. Let’s just say, where we are, isn’t a nice state like California. Our area is more on the “cutting as much from education as possible” side of that spectrum. It was also not a time when Internet access was at the tips of your fingers. Add to this the predatory nature of these army recruiters and it’s pretty easy pickins.