Saint Louis believes they should be working at the Pentagon

I'm a member of the US Army, and have been for fourteen years. I've gotten to do a lot of cool things as a Soldier, visit a dozen countries and meet great people both inside and out of the Army. 

If only we could be at war forever! I'd only change the location next time to something more tropical.

Sadly though, the decade of sending American youth to foreign countries for glory and traumatic brain injuries is drawing to a close. This means the various branches of the military are cutting spending and troop levels to reign in costs.

And for the last decade, we've been pounding jingoistic patriotism into the heads of our countrymen so much that the idea of a reduced force just scares the bejezus out of them.

If you watch the original Red Dawn, you see Soviets backed Cubans parachute onto American soil and immediately attack a high school. Thirty years later, and I'm fairly sure this would still be the most viable attack option for any other major military. 

We are certainly not "defenseless" by any means, unless there is a specific number of Soldiers on duty you require to feel safe. I hate to break it to you, but your average administrative specialist isn't going to infiltrate and Mujahadeen sleeper cell. 

This is not to disparage my admin specialists. I've seen them pull of under the table deals to get equipment rivaling Mexican cartels.

Are you under the assumption they have some special status because you pay taxes? I pay taxes too, and I think the military should be downsized and the money put towards the building of a gigantic theme park with cloned dinosaurs I can ride. Also, Cloud City from Star Wars.

Actually, let's just create everything cool from Spielberg and Lucas movies with tax money instead of silly wars.

I see no downside

Syria is a little occupied quelling their own civil war, as they have been for the last couple years. Being afraid of Russia makes me think this person is holding cold war grudges. The worst thing we have to fear is North Korea, and Dennis Rodman is working that angle.

Yeah, we tried that and it wasted more money than it saved. Also, we spend too much damn money drug testing the military on a monthly basis too. I say we get rid of drug tests for everyone! Totally because of economic reasons and not because drugs are fun...

Hey traitor, just because you don't think it's classified doesn't mean you should scream out troop movements on the internet.

Secondly, NG and Reservists are sent to augment active duty. When an Infantry division deploys, they don't take all their doctors and finance staff or the plethora of other support soldiers. Many stay back and are needed to keep the bases running. That's where we part timers (Who usually work at the low cost of one weekend a month) step in to keep shit running downrange.

Honestly, if you're going to bitch about vaccinations and dental, you're pretty far off base from government spending you should be concerned about.

I'm not going to lie, I'd love a bigger paycheck. But while what we do is dangerous, we choose to do it. No one joins the 102nd kitten petting and ice cream social brigade.

However, the next war will not be in our backyard. The only countries that border us are Canada and Mexico, and they're both smarter than your average radical, theocratic government with a Soviet nuke. 

However, if the war is in my back yard, the metric ton of dog shit should slow up the invading army until I can get to a shoe to chuck at them.

Ooh, someone sees what the rest of us don't, and they are soooooooooo smart! Not like us sleeping assholes who aren't wearing the tinfoil lined hat of smartyness.

If the government was half as competent at the things people accuse us of, we would have a colony on Mars. And they would still be blaming the president for taking our Mars guns. READ THE MARTIAN CARTA, YOU FUCKING COMMIE!

Below is an accurate depiction of me standing guard in the night.

So we need a military because we've been massive assholes to other people? I don't agree, but that attitude is a bit dour. Perhaps we should stop "pissing in other country's oats" if that's going to cause some massive uprising. 

How exactly do people think a country decides to go to war? Do you think Venezuela reads a CNN article and thinks "Oh, American troop numbers are being lowered. Time to attack California!"

And if so, go for it. Missouri wine is better anyway. It manages to not be mixed with pretention. 

Sure, these decisions are made at a legislative level, but we aren't going to let a little knowledge stop us. One would think in the last six years a little bit of information would reach these people, but as they say, you can lead a horse to well documented and peer reviewed facts, but you can't make them log off Glenn Beck's website and remove the tinfoil hat.

You know what we'll do? We'll send the one's trained and let them hold shit down until we train more. Just like we always do. From people who constantly bitch and moan about the current state of tax dollars, they sure do want to keep shitting them into M1 Abrams tanks we can't use.

The state of your military is perfectly fine. There was a time where we were accepting people with neck tattoos and felonies. Hell, if you were in one of less violent white supremacy groups you could get in as long as you could pull a trigger. 

Though, I would think you'd want a smaller fighting force. It will take a bit longer for us to get to your guns with fewer people...