People are not going to like why I believe recruitment is down. My parents signed me into the Navy when I was 17. I was a high school dropout from a poor family, jail look like the next stop and for me 4 years in the Navy was the best move. It actually gave me a place to grow up. I don't see recruitment ads on TV anymore, but when they were around it was always directed to the less fortunate. Join the service see the world, get an education, it was directed to people who seem they had no place to go. Today the military wants people with a higher education and those people can do better on the outside. I'm not complaining about the Navy besides giving me a place to grow up, it paid for my schooling when I got out. But when I joined, I remember one of the first things I was told "You are now the property of the Navy". They were right, you were told when to eat, sleep and not knowing where they were going to send you next. Let's be honest being a civilian is a more comfortable life.
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