If it hadn't been for the ARMY's damn budget which gobbles up a significant amount of US tax dollars the US govt probably would have allocated that money for education? job creation? tuition assistance? police? health care? therefore eliminating lot of young people getting killed perhaps, maybe even giving them a chance to excel in some ways? In my opinion the US defense budget is one of the biggest problems that is contributing to the National Debt taking this country down the shit hole it already is heading towards.