Unemployed troops?

When I asked the ques­tion of where 600,000 troops for Afghanistan would come from, a friend of mine joked that the unem­ploy­ment offices were a good place to start.

It’s a funny line, but it got me think­ing: Is the cur­rent eco­nomic cat­a­stro­phe a hid­den oppor­tu­nity for the armed forces to increase their ranks some­what. (Obvi­ously not by 600,000, but some, you know?)

DIs­cuss.

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