I wish there was a way to write this so that conservatives would have to read it, because then they might understand it. The fact that soldiers are re-enlisting at a high rate doesn't make up for the problem of getting fewer new enlistees.
Army Times has the latest news about recruiting. Check this out.
Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody conceded today that the Army’s missed recruiting goal means there’s no way to cut back on stop-loss anytime soon.Read on...
“It does have an impact,” Cody said at the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual meeting. “We are still an Army in stop-loss; I think if we had met this year’s [goal] we could have taken a look at stop-loss and readjusted.”
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Moreover, first-termers who re-enlist are NCOs or about to be. If every servicemember EASing this year re-enlisted, it wouldn't solve the manpower issue that too few new enlistments creates: we need qualified bodies in the junior paygrades.
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