And boy do they lol but drafts are another modality by which to do it in mass. For instance Forrest Gump is based on a program called Project 100,000 (also called “McNamara’s Morons”), launched in 1966 by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. It lowered military aptitude standards to pull in about 354,000 men who would’ve previously been rejected — mostly for low IQ (many below 85, some as low as 75), not mental illness. They were disproportionately poor, Black, and from Appalachia, and died in Vietnam at roughly 2–3x the rate of other soldiers.