[HenryArmitage]

add 100,000 active duty personnel

Is this something that a president can just snap his fingers and do? Don't you have to have a pool of recruits that large before you can fill it? Someone on here with a military background needs to tell me how this is done, or just a transparent speech point.

[entropy12]

with upto 50% unemployment among “yoots”, as Rush calls them, why would it be a problem to find recruits for the military?

My nieces came out of the military with a good basket of benefits, including absorption of aeronautical know-how.