We didn't have secure borders, and aren't a single entity.
My people the Squaxin were very different from the Comanche.

I am. Do you think guest cares?

That's not my goal. It'd be nice, but it's not what I want out of life.

Oh yeah, he regretted the shit outta that

Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein isn't the monster.
Wisdom is knowing he is.

I know a guy who got cut so his girl would go down on him. They broke up while he was healing, and she wasn't too particular about anyone else being cut.

Then they're about to get a couple hundred thousand more volunteers.

Pretty, but expensive. We've got millions of surplus weapons and rounds to work with, first.

Tech? Machine guns have been a thing for a long time.

Yeah, it's pretty funny.

Your life is yours to do with as you please.

Yup

That's one choice a person could make.

"I didn't get my medical license revoked for nothing"

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Take over a million people who rely on or are passionate about our service, and destroy our lives. Our families collapse, our sacrifice in time, money, and health rendered moot. Taken from us by the very people we chose to swear our lives in defense of. It'd hurt. It would feel like a betrayal. And then factor in that all of us are trained to kill, many of us practice violence, and a not insignificant portion of us are very good at it.
Best case scenario gangs, mafias, mercenaries, and revolutionaries spring from the woodwork, much like what happened to Eastern Europe after the USSR collapsed. Then factor that by the entire world knowing that there is no giant to be wary of, sleeping or otherwise.

I personally could see myself renouncing citizenship and seeking out Israel, the Foreign Legion, or falling in with some NGO, as a nation that betrays me is not a nation I am keen to burn with. Or joining a group keen on correcting the nation's course. By any means necessary.

Yeah, that's fluff. Smut is the sex parts.

Trouble is, we aren't defending just ourselves. We're also defending our allies in Europe, allies in Asia, allies in the Middle East, allies in South America, allies in Oceana, and all the world's oceans, and responding to every major natural disaster on top of that.
Start chipping away at the military budget (about 3% of our GDP), and you're not going to see much return. Especially considering that the military is a pioneer in medicine, psychology, technology, and is a major part of the economy.

Maybe she meant fluff?