My late father worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the depression before he went into the Marine Corps. Three hots and a cot and he sent money home to feed his family. They built roads, park, game preserves and other things.
How about we announce military drills out in the desert with approval from the Mexican gov’t to make holes just south of the border, for defensive drills purposes!
As did my father.... values learned and appreciated by his son.