Enlisted men?
*NEVER* as Republican as one would think--and less so now over the span of the same period
They use to lean GOP but we're talking 55/45 not 70/30
The plural of anecdote isn't data, but one of my friends made recently is a vet from Iraq who saw some Shit, absolutely made his way out of the darkness as an angrier young man.
You know the sort of people he really can't stand? Insurrectionists and Nazis.
Federal law enforcement (unlike certain local PDs) *cannot STAND* those people either
I've known FBI agents--they're super square Dudely Do-Rights who hate law breakers and political extremists, period, left or right