Army poised to miss 2005 recruiting goal

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, hard pressed to attract new soldiers amid the Iraq war, exceeded its July recruiting goal but seems doomed to miss its target for the year, while the Army Reserve and National Guard fell short of their goals again.

The Iraq war marks the first test of the all-volunteer U.S. military during a protracted war, and Army officials have conceded that all three components of the Army likely will miss their recruiting goals for fiscal 2005, which ends Sept. 30.

The Army, aiming to get 80,000 recruits this year, stood 11 percent behind its year-to-date goal at the end of July, with just two months left to overcome a shortfall of more than 7,000. It has not missed an annual recruiting goal since 1999.

The Army provides the bulk of ground troops in the Iraq war, in which about 1,840 U.S. troops have been killed and another nearly 14,000 wounded.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050810/ts_nm/iraq_usa_recruiting_dc

[bemildred]

1. "poised to miss"

Another illiterate headline. The "doomed to miss" later on is better.

[cobaindrain]

2. good

though I'm seeing there ads with more regularity now, TV, radio, and websites. Seems like they haven't roped enough in.

[Moderator]

3. Same story, different spin

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1691097