Reply #1: They're not seeing the military honor its end of the bargain

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If you're gay and you enlist and get discharged you are given a bill for your education and room and board.

If you take a lifetime injury you will not have your medical bills fully paid.

If you had to leave a sole proprietor business, your business debts are not guaranteed or forgiven.

If you've served your time, they can still opt to keep you in until you're really most sincerely dead.

That's why they like to recruit young and inexperienced - before you have a chance to educate yourself about the way things work or to have a complex worldview.

That, and fewer and fewer people believe this is a just war. If they're enlisting, it's not to support the war, it is to hopefully not die in it and be able to take advantage of the GI bill.