Uncle Sam's New Plan For Getting Recruits

[sabra]

Source: CBS/AP

Offering $2,000 To Nat'l Guard Members To Sign Soldiers For Army

(AP) The U.S. Army is turning to the National Guard for help recruiting would-be soldiers in hometowns across America.

Army leaders, struggling to meet recruitment goals in the midst of a long and unpopular war in Iraq, are quietly working out final details of a program that would give bonuses of $2,000 per recruit to any National Guard soldier who brings somebody into the active duty Army.

Army Secretary Pete Geren disclosed the plan in an interview with The Associated Press, calling it an innovative effort to get broader reach into local communities.

The Guard members, Geren said, are "much more in contact with the civilian population than the active duty soldier is. So they give us reach into a larger segment of the community on a personal level, a one to one basis, than we get through our recruiting relationships."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/28/iraq/main3211319.shtml

[BridgeTheGap]

1. they're getting desperate!

Good! Let's see if the "draft" talk starts back up.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Innovative but sad, not to mention pricey

Leadership, confidence and inspiration from the commander in chief should be all recruiters of any services need to meet goal easily every month. Instead we are reduced to trickeration.

[Jim__]

3. $2000 for your brother's/sister's life.

Such a deal.

[Drum]

4. Also revealed:

The new medal to be given to Guardsmen for pimping their fellow citizens:



*for ceremonial display only...not to be worn on nighttime patrols

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Honestly, this is shameful. :puke:

[gratuitous]

5. Two thousand bucks? Is that all?

I wonder if any of George Bush's base (you know, the haves and the have-mores) would be willing to sell a son or daughter for a mere two grand? And if not, why Bush thinks this is a sufficient amount of money for someone else? Don't tell me: They did a study, and found that $2,000 is what "those people" think is a lot of money.

[Hulk]

6. Any stats on how many immigrants have given their life so far in the "citizenship for your blood" ??

[superconnected]

7. Dumbing down the test, taking convicts and the elderly

doesn't seem to be covering it.

Apparently neither did the huge signing bonuses.

So now they're paying the troops already in to come up with ways to get people in.

Yes these people are desperate.

[daleo]

8. Next step, press gangs

Don't let a stranger buy you a drink - the "king's shilling" may be at the bottom of the glass.