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Now imagine that you've had the same contract for the last 428 years.

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Industry.

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And the guy who designs transmission linkages or folding tables, and the guy with the factories producing zippered canvas jackets.

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Or boot laces.

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And you'd probably want to go bowling with the guy who supplies the army with gravel.

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Good business to have.

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Or let's say your great-great-grandfather started making canteen straps for the expeditions 215 years ago, or powdered meatballs or searchlight lenses or shiny gold colored buttons.

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You might throw in some mechanics at first.

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Imagine you're the guy who wants to supply the regiment with tanks?

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Makes sense.

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Now the corporations have their fingers in the pie, it's war for war's sake.

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A multiple-phase, interstellar army of trademark representatives.

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These days, almost without exception, the companys and battalions are sponsored entities of the corporate sector.

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It was an obligation that was met.

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That lasted for the first several centuries.

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Traditionally the regiment was drawn along regional lines; each county or neighborhood would draft the requisite troops to meet their obligation when it was their turn.

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You get just as tired in the future.

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Karaoke weapons fire.