Today's (not so) shocking news item comes from the Christian Science Monitor:
Key US Army Ranks Begin To Thin
By Gordon Lubold, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Thousands more mid-level enlisted soldiers are leaving the Army than in each of the past two years, forcing the service to increase its use of pay-to-stay programs and find other ways to keep GIs in the fold.
This truly is (not so) shocking, isn't it? People leaving the Army in droves? Any it's really hard to incent them to stay?
What reason could they have for leaving? I mean, it's not like we're entrenched in a meaningless war over questionable motives, leaving the country we invaded even more divided and unstable than when we arrived, with the President refusing to create an exit plan simply out of ego and hubris, right? What's that? We ARE entrenched in that exact scenario?
Wow. What a baffling problem for the Army. I really can't think of any reason why they can't get soldiers to stick around. Not a one...
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