I believe he was talking about how we the citizens pool our resources via taxes to support a military and the other things he listed. Doing so is socialistic. He doesn't necessarily mean the institutions themselves.Ah no. The military has people in different tax brackets in accordance to location, rank, and assignment. Also not everything is equal due to job, rank, and assignment. The military is more of an oligarchy ruled my an autocrat inside of a democracy. Salary and benefits don't necessarily mean its socialist because if so then practically everyone who is a full time worker is a socialists.