And the grasp is especially strong because it does offer tangible benefits during and after service. Like veterans get priority for so many well paying jobs like trade unions and federal.

My best friend's kids go to school in the district we went to, so I was back at my old high school for one of the kid's school things. It's a poor district, with a large black ad latino population. The JROTC was volunteering to keep things running and there were so. many. of. them. I started getting blackpilled as fuck, just looking around at all those kids who are offered no kind of a future at home, so they sign away their lives and futures to join our monstrous military so we can go and oppress, exploit, and murder people abroad. It was just incredibly dark.