Trumpies Military Might: Not

       America's unemployment rate hovers around 4%. This, in essence, means there's full employment and plenty of jobs for the taking. This is reflected in military recruitment efforts. The US armed forces have failed to reach recruiting goals for several years. Pentagon admin types bemoan the sad numbers that float across their desks. No matter the speeches, the admonitions, the urgency, and the pleas to "do more', have all failed to improve the numbers of new recruits to fill the ever increasing vacancies in the ranks.

      Recent headlines speak of possible invasions of foreign nations. Top of the list Venezuela, where a minor incursion picked up Nicolas Maduro and his wife and brought them both to jail in Brooklyn, NYC, to face trial as drug dealers on a national scale. Then there's Iran, currently experiencing an uprising as protesters protest runaway inflation and a lack of essentials in the country. And then there's Mexico, the kingpin of drug trafficking in the world. Trumpie offered Pres. Sheinbaum American military to attack and rid the country of cartel drug lords. (She refused the offer).

       Greenland? hardly a concern other than a complete rollup by a small force of military police and a few dog handlers and food service employees. So, who would carry out the many varied military missions and assignments? Contractors, maybe. And they are ot subject to the UCMJ- the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the legal manual for managing military units. Recall Blackwater, the contractor so infamous in Iraq during that war. Also see what is happening in Ukraine with the Rus Army-supplamented by conscripts from North Korea. Talk about desperation. Old Mad Vlad is scraping the bottom of the barrel to put more troops in the field. And the USA?

     We are scraping very near the bottom of our barrel. See the National Guard military deployments. Who are they? Local men and women who were promised a role in L O C A L emergencies. Iraq is not aa local emergency. But the California National Guard 41st Division was sent to Kuwait and Iraq for a year's deployment(they have since returned).  And those troops sent into American cities to "restore" order-more National Guard troops. These men and women are called up from their daily jobs, their families, and their homes to take on tasks normally taken on by the Army Reserves. And where are the reserves-nobody knows and nobody is talking , not the empty suit Hegseth.