Army reports recruitment numbers way up
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Monday July 10, 2006
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 Today's Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Army is on track to meet its recruting goals this year. Last year, reports the Journal, the total number of recruits fell short of goal.
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The Army, which missed its recruiting goal for 2005 amid talk it might someday have to consider a draft, looks as if it will make its numbers for the current fiscal year.
The improved recruitment rate, which was helped by enlistment bonuses, additional recruiters and a slight relaxation of aptitude requirements, has surprised even some officials within the Army's personnel command who were doubtful a few months earlier.
The Army is expected to announce later today that it signed up 8,756 recruits in June, surpassing its goal of 8,600 for the month and that it has already recruited 89% of the 10,450 troops it will need to ship off in July. "I am very optimistic for July," said Lt. Gen. Michael Rochelle, the Army's general in charge of personnel.
But there remain concerns that the recruits brought in over the past two years may not meet the same standards as recruits in previous years, when the environment wasn't as tough.
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