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Hi everybody. Cheryl Akison here. I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition

of Full Measure After Hours.

Hi everybody, Cheryl Atkinson here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today we discuss America's military recruiting crisis, missing recruiting

goals for the first time since we converted to an all-volunteer force 50 years ago.

We have been sending billions of dollars in aid and munitions and all kinds of stuff to Ukraine and now to Israel,

while some critics say we've been letting our own national security, our own military force, languish in some ways.

You know that I talk about and write about information

manipulation quite a bit. This is sort of an aside that if you do a Google search for aid to

Ukraine, you will come up with all kinds of results and news articles that all tell you how great it is

and how necessary it is for the United States

to send as much aid as Ukraine supposedly needs for, quote, as long as it takes. You will not find

the criticism, and there's plenty of it, at least it's not showing up in my search results.

One of the criticisms is that we're sending things to Ukraine that other countries

have paid for and were in line to receive from us. So Ukraine has gotten bumped to the top of the

list at the expense of some of our allies. Additionally, critics say some of the support that we

are sending to Ukraine is leaving us depleted. For example, the U.S.

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