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They want meat for the meat-wall. Let's not get too optimistic.
No, really, the world's largest volunteer fighting force, and we also have the distinction of the world's biggest and most powerful military, so the brass had to do everything and anything to keep the ranks open wide for anyone who wants to go get themselves killed while burning brown kids in far away lands.
The slightly less cynical take is that we absolutely cannot diminish our enlisted forces any more. We have growing threats from Russia, an unstable president who may start a war with Iran for fun, instability between China, Taiwan and Philippines, just to name a couple of hotspots. If we get in a large-scale fight and don't have every advantage we're very likely to lose all status in the world.
The administration knows this. They are distracting you all with these culture-war bullshit fights knowing full well that most of them will either get shot down in court or overridden at some point. While we're all focused on trying to stop the latest bill to force toddlers to work in kitten slaughterhouses, they're passing 30 new policies that deregulate the financial sector and repeal laws that limit corporate power, which our illiterate population ignores because it's boring.