BarleyTroops
A small mod to boost soldier minimum stats from 35 to 45. As a rule of thumb you should not hire anyone with stats <40 in any case so this is just creating viable soldiers while not touching the max value of 65. Special forces troops also actually do have minimum requirements.
Starting soldiers get a little bit extra stat boost, 5 instead of 3.
NOTE: This will not replace for-hire soldiers in a savegame. You need to hire + dismiss them to generate new recruits. I think they eventually replace on their own too. In a new game all soldiers are improved.