au, enlistment rates fulfill the quotas established and authorized by Congress. Absent specific authorization of additional billets and the requisite funding, the Military is recruiting and enrolling all the new enlistees it is permitted by law. Likewise, authorized re-enlistment quotas are being met by every branch.
Unrecognized in your contention is that the Stop-Loss and Reserve Special Activation numbers amount to but a few thousand out of a military Active Duty and Reserve combined establishment of nearly 5 Million ... roughly 1.4 Million Active Duty, 3.25 Million Reserve and Guard, per
The United States Department of Defense, and that the predominant occupational specialties and ratings involved in the extensions and callups precisely are among those requiring years of training and experience.
The affected personnel are a small fraction of the overall Force Structure, and largely comprise an experience and qualification pool that is unique and induplicable.
All that aside, the bottom line is that every one of the affected personnel signed on the bottom line, affirming among other things they had read, understood, and assented to each and every particular of the contract, and acknowledged receipt of copy thereof, that they were freely signing.
By law, thats the end of the argument.
