"Australia navy off for Christmas"
Most of Australia's navy is to be given two months off over Christmas as part of a new strategy to cope with crew shortages, the defence minister says. Joel Fitzgibbon said the extended break was a way of encouraging sailors to stay in the service... Mr Fitzgibbon said: "We're doing a lot of work trying to find new and innovative ways both to retain skilled people and recruit new people."I like the idea of finding "new and innovative ways to retain skilled people and recruit new people." Not that taking two months off is an option for our deeply committed military, but the DoD has to come up with something or in five more years of sustained conflict we will have a diluted military.
We will be left with more of this: "U.S. Army and Marine Corps grant more felony waivers" and more waivers in general for people could historically could not join the military.
