The military has a long history of playing guinea pig to medical practices, inoculations, and social experimentation.
I don’t know when or why it started, or the ideological soundness of playing “pretend military”
I also wonder when the draft will fire back up?
“I also wonder when the draft will fire back up?”
A draft in today’s America would be a disaster.
We will never see a draft in this country again; when the architects of the war in Vietnam later admitted countless mistakes in the manner in which that war was carried out and still never spent a day in prison, then the moral high ground was lost forever. Millions of people died without any formal declaration of war, and nobody was prosecuted.
How could they ever convince anyone they should show up when called? Unless the US was actually under attack on its own soil (within the 50 states themselves, not embassies), nobody’s coming to fight for our 1%ers.