Correct. When a war worth fighting appears, there will be no shortage of talented volunteers. Look what happened right after 9/11.
Considering the state of things, I’m glad I didn’t sign up. The air force wanted me for some position doing IT work, jumping out of planes, cross training with the army, to set up forward operating bases. I’m glad I didn’t. My buddies that went regret it to this day. It was a pointless war then and it still is now. I predicted that we would never achieve any real sense of victory in Afghanistan, especially when you consider the Russians experience there. It would last long enough for a Democrat to cut and run and look at where we are today. Pointless loss of life so goatherders and Muslim psychopaths can run amok. I was right about it and Iraq. It wasn’t the great call to arms my grandfather experienced when he enlisted to fight the Japs. In was nothing more than a political battle to fight a faceless enemy in a crap hole part of the world that hates us and would stab us in the back the moment we turned around. Japan and Germany were civilized cultures that could be put back into place. Muslim dirt holes always have and always will be a den for human misery, perfect for murderers, barbarians, and child predators.
The reason we have so many females, is because we have had problems filling our small 9/11 military.
You are totally wrong, our population may be on it's way to doubling, and we may be spending a fortune per soldier and his benefits, but enlistments have not been great since 9/11, and the military has been exhausted and overstretched on these small wars, ever since.