Army Misses Its June Goal for New Recruits
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Rising casualties in Iraq and a strong economy at home caused the service to miss its recruiting goals for the second straight month.
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WASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps fell slightly short of its recruiting goal in January, the first month that has happened in nearly a decade, amid parents' concerns about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The U.S. Army will start training all soldiers on Wednesday to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress and seek help when needed, but it still lacks the mental health resources to treat those troops.
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Increasing numbers of soldiers are deciding not to join the Army National Guard after they leave active duty, a trend so troubling that the Guard is hiring 1,400 more recruiters to reverse it.
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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Nathan Hubbard came from a family of soldiers that had already lost one son to the war. Ricky Bell was due to fly home in less than a month. Michael Hook couldn't wait to get back to the states &#151; his fiancee is pregnant.
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The U.S. Army is considering  shortening yearlong combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan amid  concerns the long and perilous duty is making it hard to  attract new soldiers and keep current ones, officials said on  Monday.
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PHILADELPHIA -- All that was missing from the patriotic fervor of the traditional rivalry between Army and Navy was competition.
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Half of Army recruits have the literacy or numeracy skills of children leaving primary school.
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The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war
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The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half of the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June.
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Critical to the war effort in Iraq, the National Guard and Army Reserve are drawing fewer enlistees. Will the troop shortage worsen?
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How's this for a recruiting slogan? Join the Army, Buy a House. Faced with the challenge of expanding the U.S. Army in wartime, the military is testing an incentive program that pays enlistees up to $40,000 toward a home or a startup business after their commitment. The Army Advantage Fund program is being tested here and four other areas Â Montgomery, Ala., Cleveland, Seattle and San Antonio Â for the next six to nine months.
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Award denied to thousands of soldiers --tankers, engineers, artillerymen -- retrained for infantry.
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The U.S. military's reserves and National Guard forces are not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home and face an "appalling" shortage of forces able to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear strikes on U.S. soil, according to a congressional commission report released today.
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A human rights charity claims children are being forcibly recruited into Burma's army due to a lack of adult recruits.
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The US Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, plans to summon a similar number next year for duty