We're desperate
Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not, it's clearly a sign of how desperate the Army is becoming for soldiers.
I wish them the best of luck in their endeavors.
“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”
Senator Hillary Clinton
Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not, it's clearly a sign of how desperate the Army is becoming for soldiers.