If I may say so, what many here don't seem to understand is that this "issue" is a total, 100% illusion created by the press to get their readers riled up and sell a few newspapers.
In fact, retention rates in the first Gulf war went up for units mobilized for war. It's too soon to get real good data about retention rates in this war, but lack of data never stops the press from whipping up a non-story into something that naive readers will believe.
After the real numbers come in, the press will just shrug and go on to invent some other imaginary story to write about, without putting out any corrections or apologies.
Meanwhile, unsophisticated readers get the impression that the Guard and Reserve is filled with whiners, which also isn't true, and these soldiers deserve a better "thanks" for their service than this kind of abuse.