Laid off Combat Vets. Could we be looking at Bonus Army 2?

Thanks for adding this log to the fire Paralus!

via Wikipedia.

The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Force, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant.

Read the whole thing.  Its a fascinating view of an ignored period of our history.
Could we see another Bonus Army?  Maybe.  If we're lucky.  But thousands of pissed off, disaffected, unemployed combat veterans is not something that any society wants to have.

Like Paralus said in previous comments...

One of the most dangerous things in any society is a large amount of trained soldiers who are unemployed, bored and ticked off. There's a reason why the Romans offered each retired soldier a plot of land and citizenship. It provided a source of income for the former soldiers, it helped populate the frontier with veterans capable of defending their communities while it also expanded the boundaries of the empire.

In about a month, maybe two, you're going to have military members, military blogs, mainstream media and family members waking up to the reality modernization (and lets be honest here...the F-35...everything else has been canned to protect that airplane) has been chosen over personnel.

That's when this will be fun to watch.