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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] [QUOTE](apart from discouraging people from enlisting - but wars also encourage enlisting; what's the balance nowadays?).[/QUOTE]The U.S. military is at a point where is has been forced to maintain troop levels with the use of stop loss orders. Which the military apparently does because basically there are not enough new troops to fill the positions of troops already in the field. Troops who have served out their enlistment and want to leave the military. When they leave the military, they take their training and experience with them. Which wouldn�t be so much of a problem if there were a pool of trained and experienced replacements waiting to take over. Apparently there is not. So to prevent the lack of trained personnel from becoming a problem, you just prevent the trained personnel you already have from leaving. And you call up others from the Ready Reserves. These are people who had left the military and returned to civilian life, but still meet the fine print criteria of being in the reserves because they didn�t serve an allotted number of years in their enlistments. So, to answer the question, I�m going with Mr. Bush�s handling of Iraq and the War on Terror� has been probably been a net loss for military enlistments. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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