Marcus - dar child - that is only if you ASSUME (against all evidence) that these officials have benevolent motives. And care one whit about military readiness.

The military is a captive population upon whom your government has been experimenting NON-STOP for the last 100 years. See the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Report (Sen. Prt. 103-94) entitled "Is Military research Hazardous to Veterans' Health?" There were the "Atomic Veterans, men like Nathan Schnurmann, who were not told, but were intentionally "flashed" by being on deck aboard Navy ships during some of the nuclear tests in the Pacific Atolls in WW2. MKULTRA was a 12-year joint CIA-Army mind-control experiment (~1950-1962) on unwitting "solunteers" who were told they would be testing "chem/bio" equipment, but were actually being administered hallucinogenics. After one of those victims sued - and LOST- before the Supreme Court in 1987 (United States v. Stanley), the Gulf War ramp-up came, and the DoD went to the FDA to get waivers of informed consent because of WMDs!! so they could administer all manner of unlicensed and experimental drugs and vaccines (including anthrax), or licensed drugs in new ways or under different conditions, and lo and behold, 275,000 cases of "Gulf War Syndrome" from that war. Worse yet, they told all of those guys and gals, "It's all in your head. It's psychiatric. Quit being a little bitch."

That's your government.

Then came the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program! The JVAP - a DoD (i.e. taxpyaer-funded) contract program for all manner of pharmaceutical companies to bid on, with the Holy Grail being THE One GREAT Vaccine. The whole thing is so fucking corrupt and idiotic it sounds like a bad screenplay from a Bond movie, but it's not. It's entirely true and available in public docs.

It's fucking greed and legal capture because there are no consequences for Top Men in government. Nobody's going to jail for this, and they're all getting fabulously wealthy, and they couldn't give two fucks if it hurts small percentage of the population who can and will join the volunteer force. Those are predominately peopled by "the Deplorables" anyway.

It's not their kids going to die in Afghanistan. I promise you Scott Gottlieb's kids didn't join the Rangers, nor did the kids of that lying rat-faced, weasel Tony Fauci.