I’d say it’s uncontroversial and true. The armed forces of the US largely exists to maintain America’s imperial dominance abroad, there is nothing valorous about going to the global south to murder the world’s poorest for your own personal gain. Vets themselves have often admitted to signing up of their own volition to either have an “adventure” or to make money in some way murdering foreigners. Mike Prysner attempted to shift responsibility by laying blame on Bush, but the reality of it is that he and his friends ended up there of their own volition. Nobody sent them but themselves, there was no draft nor conscription. Plus, even if there was conscription, conscientious objectors are a thing. If people in apartheid South Africa and America during the Vietnam War could do it, there is zero reason for why it wouldn’t be viable now.

Here’s something that’ll come off as “moralistic” and “unscientific” to the stormtrooper apologists here, but it is not in fact okay to murder foreigners in a totally unjust imperialist “operation” and you should expect no sympathy when you’re injured or killed by the very people you enthusiastically signed up to murder. The only way you could disagree with this is if you view non-white/non-American lives as less valuable.