Young, Armed, and Prepared To Defend Their Egos

More than anything, boys want to be men and to take action in ways that benefit our society or for its malevolent forces to exploit.

Dan Barkhuff is an Emergency Medicine physician, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, and an ex-Navy SEAL with 8 years of service and combat deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa. He is the founder of Veterans For Responsible Leadership.

By Daniel Barkhuff, MD

In January 1973, the last conscripts were drafted by the United States of America into m…