I don't think it would result in a recruiting problem. Eighteen year old kids usually aren't thinking about retirement any way. They are usually interested in college money or adventure. The real problem would be with retention. The twenty two year old E5 who has earned his college money or had his adventure. So, this plan would hit the NCO corps and company grade officers the hardest. A lot of our E8s and E9s decided to tough out the cuts and general **** of the 1990s when they were E5s and E6s in order to get their retirement. Take away retirement, I think a sizable number of the people that actually run the Army would run away from the Army...

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