An alternative point of view on this could be the following. Perhaps the cold, calculating bureaucrats have considered the impact and are viewing this differently. If RC folks are not considered employable in the civilian sector, perhaps those folks will elect to stay on active service, thereby providing the manpower to grow the active force to the new end strengths. Their vacancies in the civilian workforce can then be filled by those who are currently unemployed. This will decrease the draw on government budgets by lowered welfare/unemployment payments.
I hope that this is not the case because I suspect we will not get the right kind of fill in either world, as Entropy noted in the first part of the quotation above with regard to folks opting out of the RC.
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