a breakdown in how the Army tracks how many recruiters it has coming through the pipeline along with retention of existing ones
"a breakdown"
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Similar to:
The Party reports via its Palace Media for Truth, that "the engine broke down."
When the truth is, The Party turned off the fuel valve, and the Palace Media "complied" by looking the other way, again.