Chuckling out loud
Yes, CA is a "better" field than some. I was PSYOPS and that entire field was at one time completely removed into the reserves only to find it was once again necessary and they were short once again for failure to pre-plan. Later after my PhD I became one of the very select few people who are experts at aerosol infections and biothreat detection. For the past 10 years that has been a gravy train but it all abruptly ended last year. Perhaps you are unaware that the contracting of services is a relatively new idea and actually illegal if anyone were to examine the laws with a fine tooth comb. Congress after Viet Nam in response to the severe anger of our citizenry following Viet Nam demanded that the military be reduced and capped with the goal that we could respond if attacked but to not have enough teeth to attack anyone else. Our moral prerogative at that time was to stop the perceived aggression's based on the lies our government told us. That lasted a while until the military industrial complex wormed their way back into the hearts and minds of Congress. Then we had a rush on "little" conflicts which are laughable in hindsight. Grenada, Panama, Honduras, Beirut, Somalia, Columbia, Peru, Angola and others and all slowly built up a kind of dull sense of "normal" for this. Yes, we went to a fully "professional" military at great cost. But when it was limited by a manpower cap there wasn't a great deal more that could be added except bright and shiny toys (remember Star Wars?). Then came the idea of contracting to get around the manpower cap. That began with non-profits and rapidly expanded to the ridiculous levels they are at now. That too will end at some point as a backlash to what transgressions have been being performed by our contracted mercenary forces. It is predictable and IMHO unavoidable. So, maybe there won't be any jobs in the contracting sector once this train gets rolling. I would plan for that eventuality and prepare for it. Perhaps it may not come to pass and perhaps we will have never ending conflicts such as today. If so, then yes, then CA will remain a large issue and be required after action to rebuild the nations we have destroyed by saving them. But, perhaps sanity will once again prevail and all of this will come to en end. If you go debt free and build up capital you can be prepared for that eventuality. Education is money in the bank for the future.
