Military hitting recruitment goals?
by Aexia
Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 01:28:27 PM PDT
Obviously, the best way to keep hitting goals in the face of lowered enlistment is to simply lower the goals. So I googled around to find the goals. Naturally, news article don't give goals for the previous years when trumpeting how the military is hitting the marks.
2002
Air Force - 37823
Army - 79500
Marines - 38642
Navy - 46500
2004
Air Force - 34080
Army - 77000
Marines - 36773
Navy - 39700
Numbers explain themselves.
Military spokesmen have been saying things are so great that they don't need as many new recruits, hence the lower goals I guess, because "retention" has been so great.
I just wonder how much of that "retention" is voluntary.
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