Army's 2005 Goals Won't be Met

[HeeBGBz]

Army's 2005 Goals Won't be Met

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"The U.S. Army probably will come up well short of the 80,000 new recruits it needs during fiscal 2005, despite adding a thousand more recruiters, boosting enlistment cash bonuses to a record $20,000, spending $200 million on upbeat television ads and beginning to lower its standards"

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Creating that force "will require more ability and more competence, not less, for the soldier in tomorrow's Army," said retired Lt. Gen. Marc Cisneros of Corpus Christi, Texas.

"More troubling to me is the fact that lowering standards impacts on a moral issue," Cisneros said. "If young people aren't enlisting, that tells me we are not doing the right thing over there . If our leaders can't see that, the damage will go deeper than it did in Vietnam."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Wow on that last paragraph. He said a mouthful.

[HeeBGBz]

2. Considering it was a Lt General that said it

Made it quite significant.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Because conservatives aren't as patriotic as they say they are!

[marmar]

5. They're loyal to their party and their manifesto...

They could care less about the mass of America.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. What if they held a draft and no one came!

[HeeBGBz]

7. Things are pretty grim.

I don't even know if a draft would stave off the discontent.

[AgadorSparticus]

6. this has to throw some wrench into their iran plan.

[OneBlueSky]

8. oh yes they WILL! . . . BushCo absolutely NEEDS the cannon fodder . . .

and they'll get it anywhere and in any way they can . . . reinstitute the draft, hire mercenaries, activate every National Guardsman and reservist in the US, empty the prisons, whatever it takes . . . they'll meet their goals, and then some . . .