DoD is the only useful government agency besides the forestry service
In normal times, I think OSHA would count as one of the more useful ones; industrial accidents can cause a lot of damage and death.
Also the National Weather Service.
No, you do not know what the hell you're talking about when it comes to the Military, so please just stop while you're ahead. Seals has the right of it. Eisenhower did warn of the Military industrial complex but not the Military itself. Keeping a strong Military has ALWAYs been the plan. What Eisenhower warned was of political interests to keep a state of war going for war profiteering. In this he was only half right.
No, Eisenhower was proved full correct in his warning, as we saw with Iraq and A-stan. Plus Vietnam; Lady Bird Johnson was a big investor in Bell Helicopter, which made bank off Veitnam, and she was far from the only politically connected person to do so.
Also, I know plenty about the military. Maybe not as much as people who've served on this forum, but I also know most military members on this forum were Enlisted/NCO ranks, not officers.
Enlisted/NCO's don't make overarching military policy, the brass/Joint Chief's do at the direction of POTUS (if they aren't pulling a Milley and trying to sabotage their own C-I-C), and those are political offices more than anything, who do treat the military as both a political branch and political party on par with the 3 civie branches.
The United States Military and to an extent the DOD get the credit they deserve for the absolutely Herculean tasks they perform on a daily basis. Domestically the DODs only real footprint is in recruitment and Hollywood movies. That's it. They're not sending troops to peoples houses or business to fuck with them. Direct your anger where its due. That is the intelligence community that is actively backing a corrupt government who are hellbent on going full on 3rd world banana republic.
So you want to ignore the DoD's footprint in local economies near bases, the large amount of benefits the DoD gets that civies don't (VA loans/military discounts), and the literal acreage that military bases have control over (sometimes expanding in ways that destroy other businesses/family farms, or hem in cities like Anchorage because they take up so much land near town).
Also, the military, military-industrial complex, and intel agencies aren't separate entities; they all have a symboitic/incestious relationship that means there is little meaningful distinction between them, politically or socio-economically.
And we aren't 'going banana republic', we've already reached that point after what happened in 2020 and since. We are a nuclear armed banana republic that controls a massive amount of territory and resources, but we're a banana republic none-the-less. And that is unlikely to change without a top-down and bottom-up reformation of the US political system and cultural landscape.
These same people forget that on the open ocean when you are in a life and death situation it is the Coast Guard and the Navy that will rescue you. And during Natural Disasters. it is the Army, Air Force and the various National Guards that often come to the rescue. Funny how all of that gets memory holed by people that blindly hate the government.
It's not 'blind hatred', it's 'well informed disappointment that has become contempt'.
Because none of what you cited changes that the military leadership and policy makers are in damn near lockstep with the Wokies now, have shown (via Milley and Mattis) that the military does consider itself a political machine as much as anything, and the intel agencies seem to feel they are the real power brokers in the US who are above the law in every way that matters.
Then again you've got a track record of rather...optimistic political predictions which rarely pan out, so I'm not surprised you want to gloss over the political aspect of what is going on.