I’m not American & I don’t really know how your class culture works over there. From what I have heard it’s a lot less ingrained & the lines are more blurry than in Britain, and a lot more Americans identify as middle class even if they’re quite poor.

Maybe that would explain some of it. I’d also guess there’s a lot more poor white rural types staffing your frontline infantry units and a lot more rich kids, overweight black women, etc sitting behind desks in glorified office jobs in their bases.

In the UK the vast majority of soldiers are from white working class communities (officers are 90+% rich kids). They’re just normal lads like myself & the people I grew up with. They’re not ‘zogbots’.