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by dragonwriter 3923 days ago
The merchant marine isn't civil service, now, either; to quote Heinlein's own response on this:

In Starship Troopers it is stated flatly and more than once that nineteen out of twenty veterans are not military veterans. Instead, 95% of voters are what we call today "former members of teh federal civil service."