• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    The United States has had the luxury of an all-volunteer military for slightly longer than I’ve been alive. My name went on the Selective Service roster. They keep that list. They’re having recruitment and retention problems. And the United States has a much bigger population than the likes of Finland.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      We had recruiting problems because we had unrealistic medical standards. For decades people just lied about what they could. Then we decided to use a system that could actually check the records of recruits.

      Once waivers were made easily available, instead of months of admin work, recruiting goals were magically met again.