[v13.1] No soldiers can be hired & soldier counter is wrong

[gfulton]

There is a workaround (briefly mentioned by OP) that was mentioned in another thread, but since I couldn't find that one I'll post it here:

Start a new game, place a base, and hire one soldier. Load your old saved game that didn't have any soldiers to hire and the list should now be populated. The downside to this workaround is that you can hire duplicates of the same soldier across multiple bases and your chinooks start showing weird things as far as how many and which soldiers are assigned to them. However, at least you'll have the soldiers to proceed with the game.

Workaround verified working on V17.52