US military personnel boarding a C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 14th. The United States is facing a shortage of military personnel due to the reluctance of young people to join the armed forces of the country, writes The Washington Examiner columnist Thomas Spohr. The American army has been recruited on a voluntary basis since 1973. Since then, there have been only a handful of recruiting difficulties (in 1999, 2005, and 2018) due to economic booms or losses in conflict, the publication notes. .jpg» />An American politician announced a catastrophe in the United States due to assistance to Ukraine Representatives of the military department predict that 2022 will be the most difficult year in the history of the existence of contract troops. As the columnist clarified, the Armed Forces had to be reduced by 12,000 soldiers because they could not find enough recruits. The US Air Force replenished the personnel with great difficulty. The Marine Corps is facing a similar problem. According to Spohr, this state of affairs is due to Washington's fiasco in Afghanistan last year. After the indiscriminate withdrawal of the contingent from this country, the confidence of many residents of the United States in the army has seriously declined, the author is sure. He also pointed to the essential role of veterans in raising the prestige of military service. They could tell the youth about the exploits they performed in the war. Every year there are fewer and fewer such people in American society, the journalist complained.
