“So history is now propaganda?”
Not all propaganda is bad.
Besides did you read all of what I wrote or are you just getting your ovaries fired up because you are an army man?
Maybe you can answer this....
How can there be a US Army before there was a USA?
And how can the Army be that old when the army was disbanded after the revolutionary war...in fact constitution forbids a standing army for more than 2 years in a time of peace.... and there was a time when the govt honored the constitution.
How much of the Army was really militia?
Is the current Army progaganda trying to take credit for what volunteer militia did?
Food for thought.
For example the 101st Field Artillery Regiment was formed December 13, 1636. The regiment is still around and is part of the Massachusetts Army National Guard.
The 3rd Infantry Regiment was formed the same year the Continental Army was disbanded and was comprised of CA veterans as well as officers who held commissions from their respective states.
From 1783 thru June 3, 1784 the Continental Army left a small residual force at West Point and some frontier outposts until Congress created the United States Army.
The Constitution says nothing about disbanding the Army after 2 years of peace.
It says in Article 1, Section 8:
“To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years”
Says nothing about being disbanded.
Most of the American effort in WW1 (I know it wasn't called that then) were 'militia' (NG, reserves)....but then, that may just be propaganda!