There’s no draft.
My daddy, a veteran of 25 years in the Marine Corps, taught me that volunteers get what they asked for. He ought to know.
Any young person joining the military now HAS to understand they’re going to fight for the Big Money, not “freedom.”
That’s cold, but it’s reality.
Mandatory military service would go a long way toward enlightening the electorate. Which is one reason we’ll never see it.