Army Exceeds Recruitment Goal For August by 528
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The Army surpassed its active-duty recruiting goal for August by more than 5 percent, using higher enlistment bonuses and additional recruiters to turn around an early summer slump that threatened the service's fiscal year goal of 80,000 by the end of September.
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The U.S. Army National Guard,  battered by its major role in the Iraq war, announced on  Thursday it would increase enlistment bonuses to attract new  recruits and seek $20 billion to replace arms and equipment.
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The Marine Corps fell short of its monthly recruiting goal in January for the first time in nearly 10 years, officials said Thursday.
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More than 500 Iraqi men have joined the police in restive Anbar province &#151; a focal point of the Sunni Arab insurgency &#151; in the most successful recruiting drive by U.S. and Iraqi forces in the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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WARSAW, Sept. 14 -- Poland announced Thursday that it would send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan in the first positive response to an urgent NATO appeal. But it said the soldiers would not reach the country until February.
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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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Overall, there will be around 8,046 participants of the parade and veterans' march.
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The U.S. military will boost its troops in Iraq to 150,000 this month, the highest level since the war began in March 2003, in order to improve security for scheduled Jan 30. elections, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and Marines were wounded during August, by far the highest combat toll for any month since war began.
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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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The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The Associated Press has learned
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About 50 Airmen from the 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron here, along with four from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, low crawled and convoyed their way to becoming an 'Army of One.' This prepared them to deploy ...
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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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In the latest signs of strains on the military from the war in Iraq, the Army National Guard announced on Thursday that it had fallen 30 percent below its recruiting goals
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The Republic of Georgia said Thursday it is raising the number of its soldiers serving with the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq to more than 2,000 from the current 850.
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Half of Army recruits have the literacy or numeracy skills of children leaving primary school.
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The US military will boost its troops in Iraq to 150,000 this month, the highest level since the war began in March 2003, in order to improve security for scheduled Jan 30.