Its almost like people realize a war is coming and don’t want to fight it.

That means the people who want to join the air force to get enough hours to qualify as a pilot likely are smart enough to realize what a bad idea that is. Same with the “free college” crowd (which is why marketing mostly pushes it more as “free trade school” these days).

So you have the people who are too dumb even for the infantry and need to go through special programs where they get told what to put on the entrance exams. Which ALSO means they are less likely to be smart enough to remember how to field strip their gun (without a negligent discharge or three in the process) or don’t realize the reason they keep getting told drug tests are a thing is that they should stop smoking for long enough to piss clean.

Just also understand that the idea that the military would refuse to attack Americans or Canadians (because they have a great track record of standing up to trump…) goes out the window. Because it is our dumbest and our most desperate who are “serving”.

Also, recruiters are more and more desperate and have no problem saying complete and utter bullshit during recruiting and relying on people to not read their contracts. So if your contract that “guaranteed you would become a navy seal if you join the army” isn’t giving you what you want… why wouldn’t you just flip the bird and leave?