Army Misses May Recruiting Goal

[dogday]

WASHINGTON - The Army fell short of its recruiting goal for May, its first significant slip in two years.

The active-duty Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force met or surpassed their May targets, although the Army National Guard and Air National Guard fell far short.

With an array of special incentives for attracting recruits, the Army managed to recover from a 2005 recruiting slump, but the impact of the Iraq war and the strong domestic economy have made it difficult to attract enlistees.

The Army and Marine Corps have suffered the bulk of casualties in Iraq.

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/washington/cabinet/7940367.html

[Rex]

1. Strong domestic economy? Dream on crack smoker!

Kids are wising up and would rather work the summer at Mc Donalds AND make the same amount of money as a PFC getting shot at in Iraq. A lot less dangerous.

But yeah, that economy is ROCK hard! Can't hurt that economy!

[BOSSHOG]

3. Or

If a kid wants to join the military he/she is more apt to convince Mom and Dad to let them the Air Force or the Navy.

[genie_weenie]

2. Why aren't recruiters hitting up the prisons?

Kids who were Freshman when the Terrorists of DC initiated Shock and Murder in Iraq are now the primary targets of recruiters.

We need to keep getting information out there (which the Media and Regime will make every effort to suppres) on the true nature of the Bloody Murder in the Fertile Crescent.

[SheilaT]

4. My twenty-year old

commented to me that he knows a "lot" of kids who have enlisted because they have debts to pay and want to have college underwritten by someone. And we are not exactly members of the underclass, nor are his friends. We are, in fact, fairly well-off middle-class people as are most, maybe all of his friends. He finds it disturbing that he knows kids who are enlisting like that.

He's lucky. His grandparents have underwritten his college education, so he'll come out with no debt. Were it not for them I'd have him doing his first two years at the local community college, and at a public university in our state after that. It distresses me to no end that so many kids go into serious, unnecessary debt for college.

[zonmoy]

5. If they cant enlist enough people by all their hooks

they will end up using the crook of the draft I fear.

[Ezlivin]

6. Recruit the handicapped!

Hell, if they are already missing a limb maybe they won't mind losing another.

:sarcasm:

When I was close to graduating university I had Navy recruiters contact me, eager to snare the honor's graduate with an engineering degree. I told them I was very interested and I was a Navy submarine veteran; they lost interest as soon as they heard that I was in a wheelchair. (And I would have gladly gone back into the service at the time and would have been proud to wear an officer's uniform.) I guess you need to walk for a desk job. :)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. One time, limited, opportunity! Two prosthetic limbs or one custom body bag! Sign up NOW!!