Only 1% of Americans serving in military is ‘problematic’, says Democrat Pat Ryan

New York representative, with Florida Republican and fellow veteran Mike Waltz, spoke of getting US ‘back to national service’

New York Democratic representative Pat Ryan said that having only 1% of Americans serving in the US military is “deeply problematic as a democracy”.

In an interview with CBS’s Face The Nation ahead of Memorial Day, Ryan, who is a veteran of the US army, said: “When you lose touch between those that are fighting our wars and their families and everyone else, that’s something so essential that we have to figure out how to bring folks together, and get more folks serving.”