Draw Down

[Centurion1]

the military is a career path and often a family tradition...... the military doesnt recruit convicts anymore.

[Tellos Athenaios]

@Xiahou: not really. If you take PJ's numbers for it, the fact emerges that about 1 in every 100 people in the USA is either reservist or on active duty, with about 1 in 200 people on active duty. Russia is even worse, but China has a positively tiny army considering its size (if you assume the USA army to be normal sized).

[lars573]

the military doesnt recruit convicts anymore.

If you bet on that you'd have lost. As the US is one of the only nations I've heard that still offers a green unifrom in lieu of a neon orange one.