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Agree here. People think the military is all about shooting terrorists or civilians who might be terrorists. That's wrong. Most of it is paperwork and logistics. The only people doing much killing/being killed these days are drone pilots and black ops/special forces. That's how the US has been able to stay in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than they stayed in Vietnam with little to show for it. It's not a conspiracy, either, it's the system giving us what we want: spoils of war with minimal death and suffering (on our side, anyway).

Don't quote me on this, but women might even make for better drone operators (it's like Candy Crush but with fuzzier graphics). They're probably better at project management. And because it's no longer socially acceptable to have USO or Playboy entertain the troops, workplace romances are just going to have to be normalized.

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