>If the problem was that there are so many eligible people, but nobody wants to volunteer, then you might be on to something. They way I read it this is the pr

>If the problem was that there are so many eligible people, but nobody wants to volunteer, then you might be on to something. They way I read it this is the problem: > Once you take into account whether or not the remaining 9.7 million are enrolled in college — and that the Army doesn’t want the bare minimum for its future soldiers — the recruiting pool shrinks to just 1.7 million. The biggest contributor is 7 million college students not wanting to enroll even though they can get the military to pay for college. I bet bullshit wars on the other side of the world affects this number. Alternatively, maybe they just need fat camp as a pre-boot camp step.