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The President's Inbox Recap: The U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis
The size of the U.S. armed forces is shrinking, but not by choice.
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The decline in the percentage of Americans eligible to serve in the military has become accompanied by a declining interest in service. Just 9 percent of Americans of service age say they want to serve, down from 23 percent a few years ago