Steven King, speaking in front of high school students:

I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that. It’s, it’s not as bright. So, that’s my little commercial for that.

Mr. K, may I bring you out of your fantasy world - I can guarantee that the average soldier can read better than anyone at a job that you can just “walk on.” It’s called the ASVAB. Do your research. You know how.