My adopted grandfather was exmilitary, not sure which war, might have been 2, I don't know much, just that he was a loader or something like that. He once told me never go against the government, don't even try, and he was a huge hippie. To him, the machine he had witnessed was unstoppable, and it definitely looks that way, I can't see any faultlines. And that's quite terrifying.
On a ship, he'd load the guns, cannons, he was assigned to