Barracks Recruits: Are some better than others?

[Rowde]

If you plan on reworking your recruits, just remember that when you recruit a new member, they will start one or two levels below max instead of max level. It doesn't take long to get them back to max but just a warning if you didn't do it before.

(I don't remember if it's one OR two levels, but it's at least one)

It's one level down to change class.