Looking at one of your links a statement jumped out at me.
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The "stop-loss" provisions are not a new thing in America. They were first introduced in World War II when serving soldiers were told they could not leave until the fighting was over, plus 90 more days. They were also used in the Vietnam War to prevent slippage in force numbers, and again in the first Gulf War.
With the US now engaged on so many fronts around the world, it may simply be that the 480,000 ceiling on the size of the Army is too low.
"It reflects the fact that the military is too small, which nobody wants to admit," commented Charles Mokos, a leading military sociologist at Northwestern University.
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Seems a military draft might make this not nearly as common.
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