Army hopes to speed end-strength growth

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Army hopes to speed end-strength growth
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, September 29, 2007


ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that he is “inclined to approve” an Army request to cut a year off of the five-year plan to expand the active-duty force.

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In order to speed up the expansion, the Army would need to boost its recruiting efforts, and increase the number of soldiers who re-enlist, Geren said.

But the active-duty Army has been struggling to meet its recruiting goals as they are, even without the added pressures of accelerated Army growth.

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As of July, 11.6 percent of new active-duty and Army Reserve troops in 2007 had received so-called “moral waivers,” up from 7.9 percent in fiscal year 2006, according to figures from the U.S. Army Recruiting Command.

Moral waivers are granted for offenses ranging in seriousness from misdemeanors such as vandalism to felonies such as burglary and aggravated assault.

In fiscal 2003 and 2004, soldiers granted waivers accounted for 4.6 percent of new recruits; in 2005, it was 6.2 percent.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49123

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1. Next, they will revert two WWII/Korean tactics ... go to jail or go to war/ n/t