100,000 Former Marines to be asked back.

[SirNitram]

Marine Times

[quote]The Marine Corps plans to ask up to 100,000 former Marines released from the ranks since September 2001 whether they would like to come back.

Speaking at the Pentagon on Friday, Lt. Gen. Emerson Gardner, the Corps’ deputy commandant for programs and resources, said many of those Marines had either hinted that they’d like to have re-enlisted at the time they got out or were told outright that no slots were available in which they could re-enlist.

“In the past, we’ve had a number of people who have desired to re-enlist in a particular job specialty, and, unfortunately, there is not enough room in the Marine Corps to keep them on, so we have released them from active duty,â€

[frigidmagi]

There are people who find themselves unable to reenlist or who feel leaving was a mistake.

I like to note that Iraq has made the biggest piece of evidence for regrowing the military back from the Clinton cuts but is not the sole peice. The military has repeatly found itself made to do more with less over the years since the early 90s. If we're going to meet our treaty obligations and conduct other operations, we're going to need a larger ground force.