When you travel throughout the U.S. it is a rarity to find a male who has not done military service. The opposite holds true here unfortunately. This was not always the case. Until the later 1960s we had a very strong and capable military, and many young men nearing the end of high school would commit to a five year term in the military.

But then we did a 360. Why? Two words: 

                                                      Pierre Trudeau.

He absolutely decimated the strength and capability of our armed forces and government attitude swung in the same direction treating the Armed Forces as something we begrudgingly have to have, but lets not fund them properly and continually cut back their size. Ergo what we are reading is just one of the spin offs.

His kid will finish the job he started.