More Words, Deeper Hole

The thing that struck me about Starship Troopers was the failure rate Juan sees among his comrades that start training with him. I got the impression that everyone who washes out of training loses their chance at full citizenship, which means his society has an underclass many times the size of its regular armed forces which is permanently disenfranchised and in possession of some combat training. I expect that one guy who had big ideas about how society should be changed comes back a few years later as one of the leaders of the inevitable revolution.