Has anyone ever seen the recruiting commercials/ads for the British Army? They don't try to sugar coat things like our army does. In their ads you see people getting dirty, under intense pressure, cold, tired, wet, etc. I don't think that they are having trouble recruiting people with this.
Our Army, has ads/commercials that are such obvious BS and PC filled crap that it's pretty understandable why we are having problems.
The army is not having problems filling slots - it is just media hype.