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Trump's Plan For Gaza / The U.S. Military's Recruiting Crisis

2793.104 - 2824.536 Dexter Filkins

So, and they're paying, you know, you can be 18 years old or 17 years old, sign up for the military, right? And you get $50,000 cash in hand. And if you're 17 years old, that's a lot of money. So they're laying out the money to get people to join. And that's why personnel costs are so expensive, because there's no draft. And so the military is in the private sector competing for talent.

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