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Flunking out wouldn't mean getting drafted into the army in the US anyway, the waiting list to join has been setting records for a few years now[0]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-army-waiting-list-record-...




It's even worse if you look at what types of recruits they target https://newrepublic.com/article/156131/military-views-poor-k... (https://archive.ph/9lYDQ) (2020)

> This week, Anthony Clark, an Air Force veteran and Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois, noted how deeply embedded this trend is in American military service, detailing how he, his brother, father, and grandfather were all drafted or enlisted because “poverty is the draft.”


Flunking out of college did mean getting drafted during the Vietnam and Korea wars.


...which were 50+ years ago. Much of the world was very different back then.


In some ways the world is very much the same; just more of it.


(2010)




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