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"Solving" the recruitment problem.(INSIDER REPORT)
At the end of April, reported the Financial Times for May 31, "the Army had attracted only 35,926 soldiers toward its goal of 80,000 for the year ending in October. Figures for reserves were even worse: 7,283 towards the target of 22,175."
Major General Michael Rochelle, striving to put the most favorable construction on these figures, insists that the Army's "retention is great," but admits: "Out recruiting is harder. Today's conditions represent the most challenging conditions we have seen in recruiting in my 33 years in uniform." Among the major impediments to recruitment, he told the Financial Times, was the fact that "parents are now more reluctant to encourage their children to join the military, knowing that they might be killed in combat."
"Army recruiting is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Army," retired Army Lt. Col. Charles Krohn told syndicated columnist Robert Novak. Krohn, who served as a Pentagon public affairs officer during the first three and a half years of the Bush administration, points out that the unnecessary war in Iraq is rapidly wearing down our military, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, "Solving" the recruitment problem.(INSIDER REPORT)