• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I go over a bridge every day that was built by the Army Corps of Engineers. There’s numerous cities in this country who rely on levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers. Army Corps of Engineers does way more than you think they do.

    If you want to continue to add all these extra criteria that’s fine, that was never the criteria of the graphic. It seems silly to spend your time complaining that a graphic with very specific criteria doesn’t contain a lot of other random criteria. If that’s how you choose to spend your time good for you though.

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      6 months ago

      I’m just explaining to you that all the “largest armies” on there are outliers. Wikipedia lists Iran as having only 600K active personnel:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Armed_Forces

      The list is just incorrect, and I explained why. South Korea has only 51 million people. Do you really think that 7.5% of all people are in the military? No, that includes “reserves” who actually do not work as soldiers.

      In that sense, every male in the US signs up for selective service at 18. Should every male aged 18 to 40 be counted as a member of the military?