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.”