3,500 of the dumbest and dimmest.

Or the most easily exploited. I don't have much sympathy for the US military on a macro scale, but I also accept that conditions in the US are intentionally set up to pressure impressionable high schoolers into enlisting, advertised as their only chance of escape from poverty because college was never on the table for them. I can feel bad about that.

I grew up in poverty and I didn't sell my soul for 70k in order to fight a war for genocidal white supremacists and pedophiles.

Maybe the career military personnel can be forgiven, maybe some of them think they morally have to be there in order to represent the few responsible adults of this nation and minimize harm, but for the most part they have all been given a gun and told to go shoot some brown people and said "ok, let's go".