As a military vet I can tell you that the U.S. military operates pretty much every single service to service members like a socialist collective. It works really well because there is strong group cohesion and a unifying identity. Without socialism there would be no U.S. military as we know it today.
EDIT: One day I was at the Navy commissary (a socialist grocery store for the military) in San Diego at 32nd Street and I was looking at some yellow onions. They were like $0.32/lb. There was a young low level officer (in uniform, that's how I knew) also looking at the onions. This was around 2004 I would guess. He asked me if that was a good price. I guess he wasn't the regular grocery shopper in his household. I told him they are almost $1/lb at the Albertsons up the street. He was surprised. After I did my grocery shopping I went over to the package store and bought a bottle of whisky, the special exclusive brand at Navy liquor stores called "All Hands", for half what that quality whiskey would cost at retail. Then I went to the NEX (Navy Exchange) the department store for the Navy and bought some clothes for about 30% less than they would have cost in town.
But yeah, **** socialism.
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