"For the record, I put four daughters through college, and I went in debt to my armpits to do it.  One of them justified the investment; she's a leading light in her profession which she practices under her husband's name because I'm a disreputable old bum who makes money writing popular trash instead of having the grace to be only a revered memory in her paragraph in Who's Who.  The other three are nice people who always remember my birthday and don't bother me otherwise I can't say that an education hurt them.  But my offspring are not relevant save to show that I understand that a man often needs more than he's got.  But you can fix that easily; you can resign from the service and take a job with some engineering firm that will pay you several times what you're getting just to put your name on their letterhead General Atomics.  Several others, You've had offers, haven't you?"