This rosy fantasy army recruitment in many ways erases the actual lives of people that join. Army recruitment often targets the poor and marginalized. People that have few opportunities in their communities for stable, above-board middle class employment.

People get recruited for the front lines because the system we’ve built around them pushes them in that direction. Our public schools are increasingly defunded, and people from communities that suffered under redlining still find it difficult to secure credit for to this day. (1)

Soldiers suffer for our national wealth and more often then not have been excluded from spaces where that wealth is generated.

1. https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks...