Well, they're raising the enlistment age from 34 to 42, and marijuana possession is no longer an automatic disqualifier.
Remember when nobody wanted to join and recruitment numbers were struggling?
They're saying it's because a lot of young people don't meet the qualifications.
So overnight, millions of more people just became eligible.
That is a massive expansion in who can now join the military.
And all this is happening while tensions overseas are rising.
Raise the age, drop convictions, and expand eligibility. Short term pain for long term gain.
But really, it's just getting people used to things they might not have accepted before.
Here's the reality. Most people supporting this, they won't enlist. They won't enlist their kids.
They won't even notice the changes that affect everyone else.
Meanwhile, the system slowly shifts the rules.
Let's be honest, the same guy who told us no new wars, he's suddenly running the same playbook they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A waiver dropped today, and a soldier gained tomorrow.
The billionaires never enlist, while everyone else fights their wars.