Military retirement   

ur self a favor and compare the military the people of the US is strapped with, and how many veterans and especially disabled vets it has produced vice % population compared to the experience of other countries.  And, check out how many military foreign bases and outposts the US has compared to the rest of the freeloading world.  It's all relative and we're going bankrupt affording it.

Cowards?

Far easier to go along and take chances instead of standing for the truth of our runaway military industrial complex, big pharma, financial services oligarchs and the rest in bed with big government oligarchs!  

Different camaflouge, same thing!  Only the American people can put it in balance.