The U.S. Army is at least 15,000 recruits short for fiscal year 2022. The Navy and Air Force were not quite as bad, but they also fell short. Observers are saying that the outlook for the coming year is going to be just as bad or even worse.
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recruitment struggles not seen since the Vietnam War. And as
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