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U.S. Military Can’t Find Recruits

July 17, 2022 at 3:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “These are tough times for military recruiting. Almost across the board, the armed forces are experiencing large shortfalls in enlistments this year — a deficit of thousands of entry-level troops that is on pace to be worse than any since just after the Vietnam War. It threatens to throw a wrench into the military’s machinery, leaving critical jobs unfilled and some platoons with too few people to function.”

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