The military hasn't saved us from pandemic—nor should it
From the very first days of the pandemic, when governors and politicians and both leading presidential candidates clamored for the military to be called out and the National Guard to be mobilized, men and women in uniform have played an outsize role. From New York to the smallest communities in the American hinterland, 45,000 members of the Guard selflessly left their own families to put themselves into harm's way, moving materiel, performing testing, and delivering food.
If it weren't for the fact that the military issued a constant flow of COVID-19 press releases and saturated social media with announcements that made it seem as if it had all hands on deck; if the military didn't spend tens of millions of dollars on ridiculous flyovers—all these numbers might not be so remarkable. Nor is the military's response to coronavirus necessarily scandalous. After all, it is not the military's mission to be America's public health force.
That our national defense force is not well suited for domestic emergency response should be further demonstrated in the secrecy that is an endemic part of all things military.
As the military response demonstrates, the civilian need isn't unlimited. Maybe 60,000 people in a national reserve is all we're talking about—the actual military augmentation. Yes of course military transport and other capabilities should be borrowed when everyone is rolling up their sleeves in response.
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