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Time To End Military Equality In The US -- Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, America has always been a society that strived for equality. Although commendable progress has been made during the interim, most Americans would probably agree that more work remains to be done when it comes to most kinds of equality.
But one exception to this rule is the military where equality has long remained supreme. That’s not to say that each individual within the military is treated equally—in fact, the military is built on the principle of a strict hierarchy—but rather that the different services within the armed forces have long been treated with near perfect equality.
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My Comment: With Pentagon budget cuts rapidly becoming the norm and not the exception .... the services are now positioning themselves to make sure that these cuts will be minimal for their departments .... and to "hell" with the other services.
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