Army's &#36;20K bonus attracting recruits
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Bored with life on his family's South Carolina horse farm, Willard McCormick decided that military service was the right plan for his future. And when the Army dangled its new, $20,000 recruiting bonus in front of him, the decision got a lot easier.
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Congress on Saturday approved a &#36;477 billion defense bill with a military pay raise and new money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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There is a belief at Army that the football program has turned the corner, thanks to improvements in recruiting under third-year coach Bobby Ross.
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Maj. Rachel VanLandingham's job sounds like one of the toughest in the military &#151; persuading law school graduates to pass on high-paying private sector jobs and become Air Force judge advocates for about &#36;40,000 a year.
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The Pentagon said Wednesday that it will boost the number of US troops in Iraq to about 150,000, the highest level since the US occupation began 19 months ago.
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The Army awarded a contract worth up to $150 billion to feed, house and provide other services to U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, spreading among three companies work that recently had been linked to a single, controversial contractor: Halliburton.
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The U.S. military presence in Iraq will grow to 150,000 troops by next month, the highest level since the invasion last year.
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In a big turnaround from a year ago,   the U.S. Army will achieve its 2006 goal of 80,000 new soldiers   despite lingering reluctance by some potential recruits to join   amid the Iraq war, officials said on Friday.
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(CBS/AP) The Army is considering shortening tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, but may face a dilemma between encouraging recruiting and keeping front-line positions adequately manned.
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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Nine hundred reservists are to be drafted in to serve in Iraq, the defence minister Ivor Caplin announced yesterday. It will increase the total number of part-time servicemen and women in Iraq from 750 to 1,000 by next May.
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The U.S. military will temporarily  boost its troop strength in Iraq to about 150,000 from a  current level of 138,000 to provide extra security for Iraqi  elections set for Jan. 30, defense officials said on Wednesday.
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It's the cost of competition. Large federal agencies are increasingly offering bonuses to recruit employees for hard-to-fill jobs and to keep them from leaving the government.
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To boost troop strength, the Army and Marine Corps are issuing more "moral waivers," allowing in more soldiers with criminal records and other problems
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Pay for members of the armed forces will rise by 2.6% from April, the Defence Secretary has announced.
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U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are likely to remain steady, at about 21,000, at least until next February, the top U.S. general there said Thursday, echoing earlier comments about forces in Iraq.
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