I am not surprised to hear this. If only most Americans knew that for a long time we have had more soldiers dying from suicide than on the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan, then maybe all Trump's MAGA crap would not sound so good or credible. Of course the corporate media is pretty quiet, at least most of the time, about this trend. If only they covered it like they did Vietnam, but then again, if they did we would not be over there anymore. That's why after Vietnam the corporate media and the Penatgon fell in line on not showing war the same way ever again.

Glorified welfare, the military. We can do better, but it's never going to happen as long as men run the world. Hillary would of been horrible, not her either. We MUST do better.

it's very expensive in many ways to maintain a standing army. especially when it really only benefits the rich (military/industrial/security complex).
there are 100s of thousands of vets collecting indexed pensions which the country can't afford to pay.
there will be payback.