Yet another consequence of G"aWol"B decision to invade Iraq and then mismanage the entire military operation.
General: Guard Won't Meet Recruiting Goal
"It will be the first time since 1994 that the Guard has missed its sign-up goal"
"If you want to get away from active duty and you don't want to take a chance that you're going to deploy that quickly again, then you probably are going to make a clean break for a while and not join the Guard or Reserve, and so we are suffering," Blum said.