Despite a barrage of hefty bonuses, loosened and more progressive enlistment requirements, and even the creation of innovative pre-boot camp programs, the U.S. military mostly fell short in efforts to bring more Americans into the services over the past year -- and it's unclear how or when that will change.
How long until they start impressing poor kids into the army? I'm guessing they'll start with foster kids, then incarcerated ones, then random Black kids out past curfew.
the recruitment stations are already strategically placed in the manner you have described
Judges will just go back to offering a suspended sentence if they sign up. Of course that's just the military industrial complex cannibalizing the prison industrial complex. Do you want soldiers or slaves?