Yep. But it shouldn't have to come to this. With the woke agenda alienating the good 'ole boys in the South, there's not much to recruit. No one is going to call for a draft at this time. So we are going to have to downsize the military.
Yeah, the left figured out how to break the military and did it first by removing the quotas limits on females which were 2% until 1972 and the left succeeded in ending the draft which meant we would have to switch the military budget over largely to domestic issues and start us on the road to unionization and turning the military into just another federal job.
As the decades go by the military has become more and more a family-oriented workplace, people with families, daycare, single moms, people joining in fact because of the family benefits, women are going to bleed the military and the VA dry with their obsession with seeing doctors and claims for PTSD just from suffering in a male environment and physical disability claims because their bodies are not built for routine military activities.
All this family stuff and women, and quality of life focus is moving us away from the old masculine environment of warriors.
The sad part is, I loved my 8 years on active duty, but today's chain of command in the military has a spine of an invertebrate.
The Courtney Massengales have run off the Sam Damons. IOW, the staff pukes are running the show.
I had the unfortunate experience of having a great staff officer as a CO. He nearly crashed a tac eval with his incompetence in the field.