Your information doesn’t appear to be correct. I drive through a military gate every morning and am greeted by Uniformed Military Personal. In addition, 15% of the Army are Infantry and that doesn’t count the other combat components.
Most of the guys I see have been boots on ground deployed for 4,5,6 or more years. They train, deploy, train, deploy, they aren’t trained to fix the toilets and I’m OK with that. Down sizing just makes America less secure and makes those serving deploy even more often.
Are you saying 15% of our military is in combat right now? I don’t think so.
It has been 2 years since I passed through a mil gate, and not a single US military person was anywhere to be seen. I surely hope that is a thing of the past.