Abby Vesoulis
June 6, 2025
"On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no exception. Already, the sprawling agency serving America’s 16 million military veterans has fired 2,400 probationary workers and proposed eliminating an additional 15 percent of its workforce—about 80,000 people.">
Former Army here…
Recruiters prey on small towns with no opportunities and people have been raised with the rural conservative values. It’s hard to beat that out of people, even when they’re exposed to more worldly things. When they return to the shit hole conservative towns they were raised in post enlistment, they are again surrounded by people who believe that way.