Army enlistment and re-enlistment numbers

[GreenPartyVoter]

The Army, which is by far the largest of the four services, achieved 75 percent of its May goal of recruiting 6,700. The Army National Guard got 71 percent of its goal of 5,791, and the Army Reserve got 82 percent of its goal of 2,759.

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Also, the Pentagon's newly released figures showed that although the Army is having trouble getting young people to join, it is doing much better at getting those already in uniform to re-enlist. So far this budget year, which began last Oct. 1, the active-duty Army has met 103 percent of its re-enlistment goal; the National Guard is at 103 percent of its goal and the Army Reserve has met 104 percent of its goal, the Pentagon said.

In a separate statement accompanying the release of the military-wide recruiting statistics, the Army said it remains "cautiously optimistic" of meeting its goal of reruiting 80,000 people in the active Army this year. It did not express the same optimism for the National Guard and Reserve, which it called "a concern to us."

The National Guard has achieved only 76 percent of the recruits it had hoped to have by this time of the year, and the Reserve has 80 percent. The active-duty Army has 83 percent of what it planned through May 30, meaning it would have to vastly exceed its summer-month goals in order to reach the full-year target.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050610/D8AKSGVG1.html

[Bok_Tukalo]

1. What an incredible testament to the American soldier

that they would re-enlist instead of taking the opportunity to leave the service. Makes you think that the bond between them is great. They would rather face the danger than abandon their friends to the maelstrom.

Hate to see that taken advantage of by unscrupulous leaders but great men have always been exploited by lesser men, I suppose.

[T Roosevelt]

2. And the 6,700 was a reduced number

from ~8500

[USAcitizen]

3. Of course

the number in May would be higher than other months due to the high school graduates. But I expect the numbers will drop from this point on.

[Joey Liberal]

4. The Army is full of shit

"So far this budget year, which began last Oct. 1, the active-duty Army has met 103 percent of its re-enlistment goal"
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If the Army really had a 103 percent re-enlistment rate, why would it need to recruit another 80,000 soldiers this year? If so many troops are re-enlisting, why is Bush closing Army installations? They need bases for all of these troops!

[beanball]

5. The Army

is on the move,somewhere in a conserative thank tank,(too bad they are not in a tank in Iraq.)there are a groop of neo conserative clowns and they are thinking how nice it would be if shrub and cabinet of clowns would just allow all those youg Mexicans to come on over and join the army.I can see it now the new Hessians, to the rescue.Maybe a few Haitian to do the dirty work.