Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that even in the "good times" of the last few years, we were actually having little or no problems recruiting for the Army (Navy and possibly Air Force being different situations, I think...). I thought the problems actually were a very badly reduced ability to conduct indvidual training for all the soldiers we were getting in from the CFRCs, and difficulty retaining experienced leaders at the the Capt/WO levels at the other end. These two things were translating into manning problems, which are still hurting us. I guess that if we are actually going into an economic crisis, then maybe military service might seem more attractive to some people, but we need to be careful that these are actually people we want. I hope we don't drift back to the "job-ism" that was such a huge problem in the 90's but which I think the war is largely purging out of the system. Sorry...I'm going off on a tangent here....
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pbi