Let them eat MREs
This kinda bugs me.
As I write this, roughly 2.1 million of our fellow Americans are serving their nation in uniform. Within the Department of War, about 1.3 million are assigned to the active component, with another 762,000 in the Guard and Reserve. Additionally, the Coast Guard currently employs roughly 47,000 uniformed Guardsmen.
As of the end of 2025, at least 222,000 o…
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