You bring up a good point. Certainly there is a similarity in how some people end up joining gangs and how they join the military.

But more than half of military recruits have a family member who served, and military recruits (before joining) have a higher income than the national average.

Yes the 17 year old kid has poor decision making ability. I do not deny this and will not pretend as if everyone in the US military is a sociopathic monster (I have never stated this).

But we actually don’t need to infantalise these people by saying that tons of people are rejected for being stupid so anyone who is accepted is also stupid and uwu smol bean and “we should accept 1 disaffected military guy over a 100 liberal streamers who talk about imperialism” which starts to veer into absurd territory