Originally Posted by cullennewsom

Now you're talking like a socialist.

You know what else I find annoying about our recent wars? After WWII, civilians and vets could purchase old military equipment, jeeps, trucks, aircraft, etc. all sorts of equipment, still in working condition. Okay, they took the guns off, but that was about it. Now, almost everything has to be de-mil'd and sold as scrap, or worse burned and buried*. People used to make good use of those things. People re-purposed Boeing Stearman airplanes as crop dusters. Jeeps? Ranchers and farmers used those things. There are tons of other mil hardware that would be useful, but otherwise too expensive. I guess that it is just too unfriendly to business for the general population at large to have occasional access to cheap equipment**.

* Some of it is obviously not serviceable, and probably should be destroyed.
** OTOH, I'd hate for the war-hawks to have yet another reason to want more wars.