Rise of an Empire

In the original history, in the late stages of the Vietnam War, the U.S. government directly adopted the form of random lottery to recruit young people, that is, putting together the information of young people of appropriate age across the country, and then began to randomly draw with eyes closed, and gave them to whoever was drawn. An official letter asking you to report to a nearby barracks.

The young people who won the lottery made up countless reasons to avoid the meat grinder battlefield in Vietnam. As far as Conrad knew, even Claude, the King of Shu, asked the hospital to issue a certificate proving that his legs were broken. He has problems with his muscles and bones and cannot serve as a soldier at all.

This is simply a lie. That kid dances around every day and plays songs every night. It doesn’t look like he has any problem with his legs or feet.

Although the situation is not serious enough to recruit young men, the supply of follow-up troops is also seriously in short supply. The military has been responding to Linden for several months on this issue.

"The main problem with the supply of soldiers is that the welfare benefits of current soldiers are low, and public opinion is not strong. If we can find ways to increase the welfare benefits of soldiers, it should be able to greatly enhance the enthusiasm of the people." After listening to Linden's nagging, Conrad suddenly After a pause, he pretended to think for a few minutes, and then he spoke slowly.

"Our current pension standard for fallen soldiers is 150,000 US dollars per person. This price is definitely the highest in the world. If it is raised again, Congress will not agree to it." Linden rubbed his forehead and said sadly. .

A life of 150,000 U.S. dollars is definitely a sky-high price. Even in Manhattan, if you are willing to pay 20,000 U.S. dollars, you can immediately find a group of desperadoes willing to sacrifice their lives.

"I think you, father-in-law, know better than I do about the military's so-called battle death standards. Of the 100,000 people killed in action, 300 of them can receive pensions according to the standards. That means those bastards in the military have some humanity." The Duke smiled and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the guys at the Pentagon.

Although the war death pension for American soldiers is as high as 150,000 US dollars, which seems to be a shockingly high price, it is really not easy to get this money.

First of all, you must be killed on the spot when the two sides are fighting, so that you can pass the first review.

As long as you don't die on the spot, even if you have a punctured intestine, stomach, or half of your body is missing, as long as you are carried on a medical stretcher or moved, it is not considered a death in battle, but a medical accident.

If you think this is cheating, then what’s even more cheating is yet to come.

Second, the battle you participate in must be a regular battle authorized by the command center. If a small team is patrolling in the wild and is directly killed by the enemy, then according to the military, you were ambushed while touring the mountains and rivers. , compensation can only be paid according to personal accident insurance, and it cannot be regarded as death in battle.

Just like the first batch of squads ambushed by the Soviets, all were compensated based on personal accidents.

Third, even if you are seriously engaged in positional warfare, you will indeed die on the position, but there is still the most important point.

That is, your death must be attested by three witnesses to ensure that you did not die for any weird reasons, such as a weapon exploding or a heart attack.

Therefore, although the military has given a war death pension of up to 150,000 yuan, only one in ten thousand can get the money according to this standard.

According to the Pentagon's official statistics, after three years of war, the number of military casualties is still below four digits. The rest are traffic accidents, medical accidents, personal accidents, aging equipment, etc., a variety of strange and strange things. cause of death.

Of course, although the military's subsidies to soldiers who died in battle are based on some strange compensation, the money they ask from the Finance Department is all based on wartime death benefits.

As for where the tens of billions of extra pension funds went?

Lyndon looked constipated. This was a legacy of American policy throughout the ages, and he had no way to solve it.

Unless he has the ability to pull out all the top military officials and shoot them, and at the same time wipe out one-half of the wealthy families in the history of the United States, otherwise this deceptive war death pension system will continue to operate like this.

Looking at Linden's expression, he was about to turn pale with sadness.