Army Meets Recruiting Goal

[ECH1969]

The Army is ending its best recruiting year since 1997 and expecting similar success in 2007, despite the weight of grim war news from Iraq, Army Secretary Francis Harvey said Thursday.

In an Associated Press interview, Harvey said the Army will enlist its 80,000th soldier on Friday, reaching its goal for the year with eight days to spare. That is a considerable turnaround from last year when the Army missed its target for the first time since 1999 and by the widest margin in more than two decades.

By the end of the budget year on Sept. 30, the active-duty Army expects to have a total of nearly 504,000 soldiers, up from 492,000 a year ago. A year from now it hopes to reach its goal of 512,000, but that will not happen if recruiting slips again. Harvey indicated he expects recruiting to remain strong in the coming year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101233.html

[Avalux]

1. !

I don't believe it for a minute. Psy ops in full force.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Oh STOP!

:rofl:

Check's in the mail ...
Dog ate my homework ...


:eyes:

[DemoTex]

3. Quantity trumps, quality dumps.

If true, it's shades of McNamara's "100,000" (which was really 300,000+) program for his soldier-short Viet Nam war. Didn't they just raise the enlistment age to 42? What happens when a plot of the increasing enlistee ages and their IQs cross (like the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales at -40 degrees)?

[Kutjara]

4. I'm looking forward to embedded reports from...

..."The 153rd Incontinence Batallion" as they bravely capture Fallujah in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to lock up supplies of Iraqi Geritol and Matlock tapes.

[Monkeyman]

7. History repeats it self

[acmejack]

10. Wonder what the percentage of Cat IVs is?

Not to suggest that they may have altered the mix or anything.

[BrotherBuzz]

24. If you can believe their numbers

The Army allows no more than 4 percent of recruits to have scored in the lowest category (category 4) of the ASVAB test. For many years the Army had a self-imposed 2-percent limit, but raised it to 4 percent in 2005. The congressional ceiling has been set at 20 percent since fiscal 1983. In the late 1970s, as many as 45 percent of Army recruits could be drawn from category 4.

This dumb draftee (who had less then sterling dealings with recruiters) believes recruiters can and do tweak test numbers to reach their quotas. You know what I mean, Vern?

[saigon68]

26. Lots of Thugs and Hoodlums joining up

To kill a few Islamics in dresses.

[bluestateguy]

5. And because the Army says so it must be a fact

Why doesn't the WP just copy the official Army press release and just make it easy for themselves.

One of Bush's pollsters just pleaded guilty to faking data. The same thing can easily be done with military recruitment numbers too.

[Monkeyman]

9. Now thats no joke the faked the VA budget

Larry Scott got the whole this down pact. Its looks like the VA will suffer shortfalls of about $3 to $6 Billion

http://vawatchdog.org

[acmejack]

12. You know the story.

I damned sure know it & I allegedly have priority treatment! Can't even imagine what a person who is in a lower treatment catagory is getting, if anything. What is the lowest cat they are treating now, monkman?

[Monkeyman]

14. Cat Five

Cat 7-8 Under his budget will be tossed out. Last year alone 600,000 of our brothers and sisters were put on waiting list or denied health care

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Didn't they scale back the goals a few years ago when they couldn't

meet the old goals?

[ECH1969]

8. Wana bet the Army has a long more Lynnie England's

And, Green's in it today thanks to the bar coming down.

[Monkeyman]

11. That's a fact the Standards are at 4F now

[zbdent]

13. Is this the new, reduced goal?

Maybe they added recruits from the skinheads and KKK type groups, because they lowered the standards for enlistment ... you know, drug convictions, felonious crimes, etc. ...

[Monkeyman]

16. Drug Cases being waivered gun charges are being esponge

[TechBear_Seattle]

15. And most of that goal was made by...

Forceably re-enlisting the folks whose enlistment was up. "Whether you re-enlist or not, you're staying in Falujah for the foreseeable future. So why not sign here and get a bonus?"

[Monkeyman]

17. Stop loss

[TechBear_Seattle]

18. That's what I meant

:hi:

Current soldiers are not being allowed to leave, even if their contract is up. I would not at all be surprised that those who are strong armed into re-enlisting because they will be forced to stay anyway are getting counted as "voluntary recruits."

[Monkeyman]

19. My Family is on his fourth tour they stop him from leaving

last month. The kid pissed off he has done his share two bronze stars two hearts.And his does not believe in this war. All he cares about are the guys he serve with. On his helmet he wear the letters FB as my pin says Fuc- Bush

[HuffleClaw]

20. suuuuuuuuure

they've been caught far too many time being 'creative' with the numbers to be believed now.

[stepnw1f]

self-delete (nt)

[stepnw1f]

21. The Propaganda Machine is in High Gear Today (nt)

[VegasWolf]

22. Can any of the new recruits even spell G-U-N? nt

[Monkeyman]

23. Gun is for playing Weapon is for shoting thats the nice way

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