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| U.S. Army and Marines Exceed Recruiting Goals |
| 2005-11-30 |
| November 30, 2005: The U.S. Department of Defense revealed that most of the military services made their recruitment goals in October. Actually, all the active services exceeded their goals (the army by five percent). Recruiting was less successful in the reserves. The marines and army beat their goals for their reserve components, but the navy fell 11 percent short, and the air force reserves were short a third of their numbers. The air force reservists, who operate a lot of aerial tankers and transports, have been worked particularly hard over the last three years. Most of these reservists have been mobilized at least once, and many have been sent overseas several times. While their work is not very dangerous (compared to what army and marine reservists must face), it does take you away from home, and that is not popular in the air force (which has its people do three and six month tours overseas, rather than 12 months, like the army.) |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 ST - as a matter of fact, the Army ended up with 10,000 more personnel in the Regular Army [excluding activated Reserve and National Guard]from its year end strength of 482,000 in Fiscal Year 2004. That is 492,000 at the end of FY 2005. Some short fall there al Reuters. |
| Posted by: Thaviter Clomolet6980 2005-11-30 20:38 |
| #5 Halliburton: Recession Creation Division That's a riot! Does Halliburton have an Inflation Creation Division, too? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-11-30 15:11 |
| #4 We know where you live. We know everything... |
| Posted by: Halliburton: Recession Creation Division 2005-11-30 12:41 |
| #3 It's clear, the only reason the military made its recruiting goals in October was because the economy is so bad no body could get a job any where else. That's why Chimpy McBushitler had Halliburton create the recession we're in. |
| Posted by: Opinionist 2005-11-30 12:36 |
#2 Funny, I was just reading an al-Reuters article this morning, gloating about the Army's allegedly vain efforts to get people to come back on AD: The U.S. Army, fresh off missing its latest annual recruiting goal . . . blah blah blah . . . The Army fell about 7,000 short of its goal of sending 80,000 recruits into basic training in fiscal 2005 . . . About 80 percent of the letters went to people who served in services other than the Army.Posted complete with this endearing and totally unrelated photo. |
| Posted by: ST 2005-11-30 12:35 |
| #1 I breathlessly await the front-page story in the WaPo on this subject. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2005-11-30 12:24 |