Army on Pace to Meet Year's Recruiting Goal
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The Army will meet its goal of recruiting 80,000 new active-duty soldiers this fiscal year but will fall short in the percentage of high school graduates as the education level of enlistees dips below the norm of the past decade, according to senior Pentagon officials.
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As Notre Dame and Navy prepare to face one another Oct. 16, both squads reach the season&#39;s midpoint in much better condition than they were one year ago.
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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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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Army may shorten yearlong combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan amid concerns the long and perilous duty is making it difficult to recruit soldiers and keep current ones, officials said yesterday.
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Since the Iraq war began, the U.S. Army has quadrupled the number of soldiers it trains each year to be detainee interrogators, according to Army officials involved in the program.
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The U.S. Army fell short of its active-duty recruiting goal for June by about 15 percent, defense officials said yesterday. It is the second consecutive month the service's enlistment effort has faltered amid the American public's growing discontent over the war in Iraq.
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The chief of the Army Reserve said Thursday that his force of part-time soldiers has yet to fully adapt to the demands of a global war on terrorism, even though half of the 205,000 Reserve members have been called to active duty since
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush will attend the annual Army-Navy football game, one of the most storied rivalries in all of college sports.
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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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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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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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Ross, in his first season at West Point, stated matter-of-factly that Navy had surpassed Army on the football field and that his program had a lot of catching up to do.
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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
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There have been bigger showdowns between Army and Navy, but few more important than yesterday&#39;s 105th meeting. With turmoil, scandal and controversy dominating the sports world
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U.S. Army officials said on Monday  they were pressing ahead with three new aircraft programs and  stepping up pilot training to reflect lessons learned in Iraq.
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Program focuses on developing running, passing and catching skills, as well as teamwork and self-confidence.