Army Likes Its Older Recruits
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PETERSBURG, Va. -- As the World Trade Center rubble smoldered, Sharon Samuel felt determined to do something for her adopted country; she decided to enlist in the Army.
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CUMBERLAND, Md. -- When Army reservists from the 372d Military Police Company are welcomed home Friday at a belated public ceremony, the loudest cheers will probably come from the local chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, who say they're heeding their vow to never again let one generation of veterans be shunned by another.
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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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Time served and well behaved, but maybe too old to change.
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Some current and retired members of the National Guard and other military services say they aren't bothered by newly revealed memos that indicate President Bush got preferential treatment in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, while others say they are troubling.
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The government's Generation Y may not be that much different from older entry-level hires when it comes to deciding on federal employment, new survey data suggests.
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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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From life insurance to utility bills and tuition, there's a surge of support for part-time soldiers.
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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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Four decades after Charles Robert Jenkins disappeared into the mists of the Cold War, the United States Army sergeant, now a frail 64-year-old, received a light sentence
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Maybe it's no longer a young person's game. The government, which has traditionally hired college graduates and mid-career professionals, signaled yesterday that it is interested in hiring mature workers -- those older Americans who are retired or face retirement in the private sector but want to...
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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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The combat-style game 'America's Army' has proven to be a potent tool in recruiting.
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ANNISTON, Ala. -- Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot -- the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt.
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On the pretext of visiting relatives, promising recruits are sent to Pakistan-administered Kashmir for training and advice
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Stationed in a remote corner of Iraq, Marine Corps reservist Karl Linn's only means of communicating with the outside world was through a computer. Several times a week, the 20-year-old combat engineer would log on and send out a batch of e-mails and update a Web site with pictures of his adventures.
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Military recruiters have increasingly resorted to overly aggressive tactics and even criminal activity to attract young troops to the battlefield, congressional investigators say.