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To: 68skylark; stuartcr
Extra recruiters; extra advertising; extra pay; extra bonuses; extra education assistance; upgraded living standards at military bases; more flexibility with medical standards, legal standards, intelligence/educational standards, and physical strength standards; more flexibility for prior service folks who want to re-join, etc, etc.

Most of those items have been implemented since 9-11. Extra recruiters would appear to me to be counterproductive. Seems to me I've read where the Army is augmenting the recruiting command with 7-800 additional recruiters. As far as I know, recruiters are NCOs. How many line units are being deprived of the leadership those NCOs possess?

I admit I have biases. My first 12 years in the Army (61-73 -- PVT to CPT) I trained with, served with, and even trained a BCT cycle that included some of the last draftees. Between the knee-jerk reactions of Ford and Carter, we lost something in the Army and the country when the draft was ended.

Bottom line is that we are not meeting the quotas and there is no way a person can be forced into the recruiter's office.

72 posted on 03/07/2005 9:52:39 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny

As far as I can tell, your bottom line is correct.


73 posted on 03/07/2005 10:42:00 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: leadpenny

My company misses our recruiting goal too!!! Infact we have been unable to come close to recruiting a mere 30 new drivers to fill the vacancies. Why do they have to post only ARMY misses the recruiting goal? Why don't they tell the OBVIOUS, which is lower unemployement rate? Low unemployment rate keeps most companies, businesses, etc. from getting people at the door. NOT ONLY THE ARMY!!!


75 posted on 05/09/2005 10:41:13 AM PDT by Puliko
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