Posted on 10/11/2004 1:31:22 PM PDT by LowOiL
Excellent information Fun Bob. I thank God for FR members that taken time to help me. Freeper truely are the best people on the net.
Glad to help.
Did you read the article link? There is relevant information regarding reenlistment in the guard in there too. It still doesn't answer your question on deployment vs total troop size but It speaks volumes about morale and committement of our troops despite what John Kerry and Michael Moore types want us to believe. I'll quote here:
"Even the Army National Guard, which has had 150,000 citizen soldiers mobilized for up to a year, has seen retention rates "going through the roof," said Guard spokesman Maj. Robert Howell.
"Mass exodus has not been the case in the Army National Guard," said Howell, deputy chief of the Strength Maintenance Division at the National Guard Bureau in Washington.
The Guard was prepared to lose up to 18 percent of units returning from lengthy deployments, but it has averaged just 16.6 percent, with some as low as 12.6 percent, Howell said.
The Guard fully expects to again reach its recruiting goal of 56,000 members this year, to maintain its total strength of 350,000.
The Guard's goal for first-term re-enlistments , for those with less than six years of service, had been 65 percent this fiscal year but has rocketed to 141 percent - which indicates that additional members re-enlisted early, usually to take advantage of bonuses.
The goal for second- and third-term enlistments, or those considered "career" soldiers, was set at 85 percent in the Guard but has come in at 136 percent, Howell said.
That is the same article
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_numbers_041404,00.html?ESRC=airforce-a.nl
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