The family policy aimed to retain skilled soldiers facing overseas deployments

Evidence

U.S. leaders hoped that allowing family members to live with the GIs overseas would help address these problems, improve morale during continuing deployments abroad, and keep skilled soldiers from requesting redeployment to the United States. By October 1946, there were around four thousand wives and children in Germany. By the end of 1950, there were nearly thirty thousand. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 122

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 122
• XREF: connects to: Base amenities function as retention benefits to keep troops enlisted — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 111; Family support became a military retention strategy to prevent troop shortfalls; Retention concerns drove the military to treat families as force multipliers — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 125 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Base amenities function as retention benefits to keep troops enlisted — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 111; Family support became a military retention strategy to prevent troop shortfalls; Retention concerns drove the military to treat families as force multipliers — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 125 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Family support became a military retention strategy to prevent troop shortfalls #expands (0.92)