As for the soldiers being "forced" into the military "by poverty", that's pure BS. I spent 22 years in the military, I know that's BS. Calling them "po folks" unpatriotic is very offensive to me. Very 60s, commie hippieish.
Only about 13 to 20% of Americans in the age group are even qualified for the military, in other words the military is far above average, on average, and have been verified as such, health wise, in education, intelligence, criminal dispositions, work ethic, personal responsibility, they make up a kind of elite labor pool, not the left out and desperate.
Rather than trying to make us think that they would be at the bottom of the pool in society, why doesn’t the media do a better job of making it clear that the military is among our best of Americans?