They are not "protecting freedom and democracy." They are protecting the financial interests of a corrupt entrenched oligarchy and will be going off to get maimed or die in a desert.
If you want them to get trained in weaponry, survival, discipline, etc then train them yourself.
These crooks, liars and traitors in DC don't deserve your service.
Thank you for your service as well. That was a different time and it was not an all volunteer force as it is today. When I enlisted in 85 there were still quite a few that had come in under the draft and they were a different breed of people. Not good or bad different, just different than it is today.