Sheesh, what's the point of investing much in training, with this kind of service commitment / payback? Are things really that bad recruiting-wise?
"Sheesh, what's the point of investing much in training, with this kind of service commitment / payback?"
Exactly. It costs close to 50K these days to train up ONE soldier, through basic training and then their specialty training. What the h#ll are they thinking?
"Are things really that bad recruiting-wise?"
Bear in mind that we have a whole generation of young folks now who will be living off of their parents until they're in their mid-to-late twenties because their parents will enable them to do so, as well as having many youth raised by liberal, single mothers or two lesbians or two gay men who have brainwashed them against doing ANYTHING for their country, and equate "keeping the peace" with "killing people for fun!" (Just an observation from my own life.)
Patriotism, in our great nation, is dying. :(
Remember that little clause in the discharge language about being able to reactivate a veteran if necessary? I'll bet it figures into the logic of this offering
Warm bodies. I think they did something similar to this after WWII (maybe a year and a half), in order to let the vets out.