I looked around the news. The only people talking about a military retention issue are Huck’s band of crackpots. In fact, some of the services are tightening retention, making it harder to stay in anyways.

In 2015, Army will lose nearly 20,000 soldiers in drawdown

The Army stands to lose 18,200 soldiers in the drawdown plan for 2015, through attrition and reduced accessions, but also with retention screening boards that may lead to soldiers being forced out.

Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said involuntary separation actions will be targeted at the various officer and noncommissioned officer ranks “to keep the force in balance,” and to compensate for the additional soldiers who were brought into service during the manpower buildup for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“Now that we are reducing the Army, we have got to bring (those levels) back down, and we are going to continue to make decisions to do that,” said the chief during a September interview at his Pentagon office.

“My guess is that as we continue to draw the force down, we will have to do (selective release) boards every year through 2019,” he said.

Now, lets just say for a minute that its true, that fewer troops are choosing to renlist. Allow me to offer another theory.

After being at war since 2001, Veterans can hear the GOP pounding the war drums again and have zero interest in fighting Iran to line the pockets of the GOP’s contractor buddies.