Can anyone predict what would happen to the unemployment rate if all of the Military personnel who a

deployed worldwide were suddenly returned to the USA?

Can anyone predict what would happen to the unemployment rate if all of the Military personnel who are?

the unemployment rate would likely decrease as the retail and service sectors that cater to the populations would be revitalized. That is assuming the military personnel themselves remain employed by the DOD.

Of course they could stay in the military if they want to. And the majority (except the reserves) would want to.

Can anyone predict what would happen to the unemployment rate if all of the Military personnel who are?

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Thanks for the best answer, but I still believe they wouldn%26#039;t %26quot;opt out%26quot; unless they had another job lined up. Report It

|||They would still be employed, just restationed. So, nothing would happen to the unemployment rate. They sign for a stated amount of time. Until they stints are up, they do not have the option of just quitting. So no, they can%26#039;t just say%26quot; Ok, tour is over, home now, I quit%26quot;. And the influx of 1 or 2 hundred thousand in local economies across the country would get a very slight bump, but nothing substancial.|||Just because they come home doesn%26#039;t mean they still aren%26#039;t in the military.|||Unemployment rates won%26#039;t matter when Al Quaeda strikes ....|||Well regular military would still be employed, so no effect there. Reservists and national guard troops who are deployed, by law have be either given their old jobs back or a similar one. This would create some displacemen though, so it could put a little upward pressure on the unemployment rate. But deployed reservists and national guard troops are a very small percent of the total labor force, so the effect will likely be negligable.|||I thought they just got a leave from their jobs to fight for our wonderful country.|||Would probably go up.

If the MIlitary cut all it%26#039;s bases, that would mean that military funding was decreased.

Dont%26#039; think the government would be stupid enough to slash the budget this dramatically with out first being certain that there are enough jobs being created for them to fill.|||jurydoc is probably correct. If the half-million plus people who are overseas returned to the US, they would all need a place to live and food to eat, want to see movies and drive cars, and generally spend their money on consumer goods here in the US instead of foreign countries.|||Absolutely minimum impact for of those people already have a job line up. Hell we can some qualify skill personnel in all field. we hurt right now in must of the fields as far finding qualify people.|||Not a blip.

To begin with, the numbers aren%26#039;t that many. There are about 120K in Germany, 170K in the Middle East, about 35K in Korea. Throw another 100K scattered around and the numbers really aren%26#039;t that high.

But even with those limited numbers, most are active duty military who would still be in the military when they returned. Those not on active duty already had jobs when they left. Most of those are coming back to those jobs and those that, for some reason aren%26#039;t, are far better qualified to look for a job than most.|||Not every person in the military intends to be career military. They%26#039;ve got to come home sometime.

And there ARE actually military jobs here on U.S. soil, believe it or not. They aren%26#039;t suddenly unemployed simply because they%26#039;re not engaged in active combat.

Or are you suggesting we should keep them in the line of fire purely to be able to say our unemployment rate is %26quot;low%26quot;?

I%26#039;d say our unemployment rate is far more aggressively affected by the outsourcing of jobs to India than it would be by returning our military men and women to the U.S.