I’m going to be real, this was only a matter of time. Like… The whole “Thank you for your service” shit doesn’t really happen anywhere else in the world. At least not to the weird level that Americans do it. There’s a bizarre glorifcation/worship of the military. When y’all started allowing police departments to equip themselves with military style bullshit, it triggered a snowball effect. Everything got more militarized until the point that it became natural for them to be. The only logical next step was the National Guard or US Army.