According to the analysis of military expert PY, the Pentagon used a mysterious ceremony to officially announce that the new generation stealth strategic bomber B-21 has been successfully developed. Its most important feature is that it can adapt to networked operations and can command unmanned wingmen. The weapons of the US military seem to be becoming more and more "science fiction", but at the same time, the US military is also in a desperate dilemma. That is, only the bottom class and semi-illiterates are serving as soldiers in the United States. This trend has been going on for many years.
20 years ago, the U.S. Department of Defense reported that its recruits reached an average eleventh-grade reading level. The average young person of the same age group is only equivalent to the tenth grade level. However, more lower class and semi-literate people are now joining the US military. In the south, especially the South Pacific and several large states in the southwestern United States such as Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, it has the most regional characteristics.
More than two-fifths of the recruits came from this area, which has a larger white population There are not many soldiers in the northeastern region and the central plains, while recruits from the west equal the proportion of young people aged 18 to 24 in the region's total population. Based on a survey on parental education , occupational status, occupation and housing property rights, 2019 data shows that active duty and reserve soldiers of the US military mainly come from families with middle and lower-middle economic levels. As the report concludes: "While the military is diverse, overall, the military is not entirely synonymous with society."
The U.S. military lifestyle is more attractive to some members of society than to others. The ideological basis of the military is patriotism, defense of the motherland, and loyalty to the abstract values known as the "American way of life." However, the vast majority of members of society are driven by the following factors to join the military: the ambition to build a strong national defense, the possibility of being a soldier to get out of the predicament of economic and racial problems, and the attraction of the charm of military technology that is often hyped by the media.
A large number of African Americans enlisted in the military in part to escape racial problems in America's inner cities and to be employed in the "informal economy," which often resulted in jail time. At first there was little mention of motivations other than patriotism or public service. After repeated conversations with reporters, the young soldiers pointed out some problems, such as high unemployment and the fact that they would inevitably break the law if they started their own business. One soldier said that if he had not joined the Navy, "I would have been in prison for the rest of my life." A 19-year-old female soldier said: "If I don't join the Army, I will tinker with fast food all day long like most of my friends." Text/PY
