frankNfi <frankNfi at zip.com.au> writes: > Heinlein seems to me to have written in Starship Troopers an > extrapolation of his experience in the US Navy in the > Pacific in WW2, all duty , inhuman enemy and being drooped into & > pulled out of the fighting to the safety of the ships. Interesting theory, but Heinlein was medically retired from the Navy in, I believe, 1934; before the war, anyway. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info