We waste too much on the military anyways that does very little to benefit America so hopefully even less people decide to join up.
The US doesn’t stand for anything good anymore.
Maybe we’ll end up using mercenaries, similar to Russia’s Wagner group. We could call it the Joplin Forces. (After Scott Joplin. He was black, y’know.) It would allow our Overlords to empty the prisons, freeing up precious space for anti-vaxxers and unrepentant meat-eaters.