I’m a vet same as Crowbar. Currently only about 0.04% of Americans are on active duty and only 7.3% of living Americans have ever served in their lifetimes according to stats I read recently. Thats a fairly small percentage out of 330,000,000 Americans, I would say. I joined because I was sick of school and didn’t plan on moving on to college just yet. I had a long family history of military service, and I was getting drafted anyway due to the undeclared war in Viet Nam. I was also seeking a bit of excitement. I joined the Navy and really did get to see a lot of the world. No regrets. I am still in touch almost daily with shipmates and we are all proud of our service and treasure our time together. Vets of all branches have a very special bond that I couldn’t begin to explain to someone who has not gone through that experience. Ask Selco. We would get along, he and I. I was not duped into serving. To me it was a right of passage. It was expected. Did I enjoy it? Mostly, hell no! It was like a crappy chore you have to do and feel all received once it was completed. But its always there, and not a day passes that I don’t think about it.
If we were poorly used it does in no way diminish the honorable service of the men and women that took that oath. I imagine we vets are more angry than anyone over the abuse and misuse those serving now suffer at the whims of politicians, central bankers, international corporations, and globalists to achieve their ends with no concern for those doing the bleeding. It is what it is, and I just have no answer about how to fix it without a total re-boot.