Harry Hope wrote:

From The Sun-Herald, 6/12/05:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Double-your-money-US-Army-desperate-to-recruit/2005/06/11/1118347633680.html

Double your money! US Army desperate to recruit

The US Army has slipped further behind its recruiting goals amid the
Iraq war, figures released yesterday show, as officials developed
proposals to double cash bonuses and offer mortgage aid for enlisting.

The army hopes to raise the maximum cash bonus for new recruits to
$40,000 and begin a program to give up to $50,000 in home mortgage
assistance to people who volunteer for eight years of active duty,
army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Collins said.

I can do better than that in eight years in the private sector.

These new packages would augment incentives already being offered to
try to coax people into volunteering. The new proposals would need
congressional approval, and Army
Secretary Francis Harvey already has spoken to lawmakers, Lieutenant
Colonel Collins said.

The new Pentagon recruiting figures show that two-thirds through the
fiscal 2005 recruiting year, which ends on September 30, the regular
US Army was 17 per cent behind its goal, the Army Reserve was 20 per
cent behind and the Army National Guard was 24 per cent behind its
end-of-May plans.

The army, which provides most of the US ground troops in Iraq, had
missed its fourth consecutive monthly recruiting goal in May,
officials said last week. The Pentagon had delayed release of the
detailed recruiting figures by
more than a week for what it called extra scrutiny.

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Hey, Chickenhawks, come and get it.

Harry

Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else
fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal
experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience
came in spite of ample opportunity in that person’s youth.

How's Kosovo?

Harry Hope wrote:

From The Sun-Herald, 6/12/05:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Double-your-money-US-Army-desperate-to-recruit/2005/06/11/1118347633680.html

Double your money! US Army desperate to recruit

The US Army has slipped further behind its recruiting goals amid the
Iraq war, figures released yesterday show, as officials developed
proposals to double cash bonuses and offer mortgage aid for enlisting.

The army hopes to raise the maximum cash bonus for new recruits to
$40,000 and begin a program to give up to $50,000 in home mortgage
assistance to people who volunteer for eight years of active duty,
army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Collins said.

I can do better than that in eight years in the private sector.

These new packages would augment incentives already being offered to
try to coax people into volunteering.

The new proposals would need congressional approval, and Army
Secretary Francis Harvey already has spoken to lawmakers, Lieutenant
Colonel Collins said.

The new Pentagon recruiting figures show that two-thirds through the
fiscal 2005 recruiting year, which ends on September 30, the regular
US Army was 17 per cent behind its goal, the Army Reserve was 20 per
cent behind and the Army National Guard was 24 per cent behind its
end-of-May plans.

The army, which provides most of the US ground troops in Iraq, had
missed its fourth consecutive monthly recruiting goal in May,
officials said last week.

The Pentagon had delayed release of the detailed recruiting figures by
more than a week for what it called extra scrutiny.

______________________________________________________

Hey, Chickenhawks, come and get it.

Harry

Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else
fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal
experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience
came in spite of ample opportunity in that person’s youth.

How's Kosovo?