"...Servicemembers who accept a 15-year retirement incentive approved by Congress this month stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of their retirement payments, according to early estimates.
This realization, combined with poor national economic factors that are expected to compel many servicemembers to stay in uniform, could make it even tougher for service officials to entice troops to leave on their own to meet the services' goals of reduced end strength..."
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