Army recruiters often came by the school in hopes to get someone interested in joining. It didn't work a lot, except for the few lower class kids that wanted a quick path to a job.

Being seventeen, Mace needed to start thinking about what he'd do after high school, and seeing that table set up in the school commons was just speaking to him.

You were trying to talk to him, but you could tell he wasn't focused on you. He was focused on those Army recruiters, he just had to sign up.