conditions of employment are conditions of employment. If you choose to be employed by someone who will restrict your rights, is that not on your own head? Can I have some conservative consistency, please?

If you can't answer the question "Why has there never been an actual need?" then I can't help you.

Sure I can. America's technological military might, and an unquestioning willingness to use it for the most artificial of inducements. But no american soldier has fought for american freedom since WWII.