Who'd sign onto a losing team?
DoD News: DoD Announces Recruiting and Retention Numbers for November
Couple of notes here - the Reserve forces normally come from active duty folks who don't want to be full-time. And if I recall correctly, they usually had no problems meeting their goals in peacetime. But with fewer getting out, (as shown by the Active Duty retention) what you're seeing are likely folks off the street enlisting.
Reserve retention's higher too. I'll have to dig down and see if I can find some of these releases for pre-9/11.
But it's wierd. We're losing, right? So why are folks signing up to be on the losing team?
J.