{"id":61131,"date":"2015-07-31T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61131"},"modified":"2015-07-31T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:30:03","slug":"army-may-miss-recruiting-goals-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61131","title":{"rendered":"Army may miss recruiting goals for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

USAToday<\/a> reports that the Army is looking at missing it’s recruiting goal for the first time in six years, for the third time in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

“It is a challenging mission, and we’re not going to get around that,” [Major General Jeffrey Snow, USAREC commander] said. “And there are indications that the economy is going to continue to improve. ”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The shortfall in recruiting comes as the Army is planning to pare 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next few years. Despite that reduction to 450,000 men and women, the Army still needs about 60,000 young recruits a year to fill out its combat and support units.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the economy is the problem. The economy was singing along during the Iraq War and folks were getting shot up, and the Army didn’t have any problem recruiting volunteers. But then, the Army wasn’t bending over backwards to appease every social engineer with a brain fart of an idea back then either.<\/p>\n

For the first 10 months of fiscal year 2015, recruiters made more than 415,000 appointments with young men and women interested in the Army. Those resulted in just over 50,000 signing up to serve. For the same period in 2014, they made 371,000 appointments and had signed up 52,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

“We made more appointments,” Snow said. “We conducted more appointments. Yet there were fewer contracts achieved.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, what happened to all of those gays who were going bolster the ranks? Surely, females just itching to be Rangers are knocking down those recruiters’ doors. Maybe the floodgates will open when they let transsexuals serve openly – so they’ve got that demographic working for them.<\/p>\n

It couldn’t be that Congress and the White House are working hand-in-hand to reduce pay and benefits, while making retirement from the military less appealing. <\/p>\n

The services struggled during the Carter years, too, you know when bonuses and pay were meager. Then Carter tried to bribe us with a 36% pay raise the month before the 1980 election and the following year, Reagan gave us another 35% the following year and newbies were beating down the doors. So much so that we could boot the VolAr troops who joined for the colorful bedspreads with their 65 GT scores.<\/p>\n

But, hey, maybe those new uniforms will draw them in, or they could change the color of the berets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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