Guard Reports Serious Drop in Enlistment
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The Army National Guard has failed for two months to meet its recruiting quotas, falling about 30 percent below its overall target.
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It must be said that the admission comes at quite a dramatic time. The US commitment to South Korean defense is suspected to be weakening as Washington plans to pull out a third of its 37,000 troops here as part of its global arms redeployment.
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The Army National Guard said Monday it had given USA TODAY an inaccurate count of the total number of Guard troops in Iraq since the beginning of the war in March 2003, but still could not provide a precise count.
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The army is losing the equivalent of nearly a battalion to illegal drug use every year, research released Friday said.
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The National Guard is no longer just a weekend warrior service for soldiers expecting to serve a Saturday and Sunday each month and two weeks a year.
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The percentage of new recruits entering the Army with a high school diploma dropped to a new low in 2007, according to a study released yesterday, and Army officials confirmed that they have lowered their standards to meet high recruiting goals in the middle of two ongoing wars.
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The Army has encountered resistance from more than 2,000 former soldiers it has ordered back to military work.
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The National Guard and Reserves don't get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.
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Training time will be halved for troops bound for Afghanistan next year to address a shortfall, according to an early edition of The Times's Thursday newspaper.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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American and Iraqi officials said that they were seeing a decline in the monthly civilian casualty count in June.
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Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" -- largely because of shortfalls in equipment worth billions of dollars -- jeopardizing the Guard's ability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a congressional commission that released a preliminary report today on the state of U.S. military reserve forces....
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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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Guerrilla warfare in Iraq is putting  U.S. troops under growing mental stress as the military  struggles to retain and recruit soldiers, according to a study  cited by the Army Reserve commander on Thursday.
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The U.S. Army is showing growing   signs of strain as it tries to sustain troop levels in Iraq and   Afghanistan, including stress on soldiers, lower unit   readiness, equipment shortfalls and money worries.
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The Army and Army reserves expect to meet their recruiting goals this year, largely because nearly half the recruits who signed up last year were not counted until they reported for duty, officials said Monday.
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The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June, officials in the border states said.