Today, the U.S. Army turns 251, and indeed, it has a lot to celebrate. As the first truly national institution, the Army proved that disparate colonies and vastly different peoples could unite together in one body politic. Over the next two-plus centuries, beyond fighting for and defending the United States, the Army’s discoveries, inventions, and expertise helped build the physical infrastructure that enabled the U.S. to expand continentally while keeping American families alive via penicillin and EpiPens, blood plasma, and bug spray.
But despite the Army’s reasons to celebrate, there is an aspect of today’s military that ought to give us pause: Many of America’s military families — the backbone of our armed forces — are not happy.
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