Nah, people have things like contracts and service obligations. What you’d see over the next couple years is a retention crisis as enlisted personnel decline to re-enlist and officers submit their resignations (which take up to a year to “process”). Combine that with a drop in recruitment and we might be looking at reinstating the draft.
The impacts would be almost immediately noticeable... within six months the military would be below critical levels and would likely call up the IRR (Individual Ready Reserve) which consists of recently separated military members (military obligation is longer than the initial service agreement... sign a five year contract and you're actually on the hook for 8 years if the military decides they need you.. and they can call you up at any time in that window and force you to serve).
Nah, people have things like contracts and service obligations. What you’d see over the next couple years is a retention crisis as enlisted personnel decline to re-enlist and officers submit their resignations (which take up to a year to “process”). Combine that with a drop in recruitment and we might be looking at reinstating the draft.
So, it would take 4 or so years if they decided to not renew contracts?
The impacts would be almost immediately noticeable... within six months the military would be below critical levels and would likely call up the IRR (Individual Ready Reserve) which consists of recently separated military members (military obligation is longer than the initial service agreement... sign a five year contract and you're actually on the hook for 8 years if the military decides they need you.. and they can call you up at any time in that window and force you to serve).