Army misses recruiting goal again, raises worry
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The U.S. Army, strained by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, missed its recruiting goal for the second straight month in June, indicating a trend that some defense officials on Monday called worrying.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said Monday no decision had been taken whether to discipline Army reservists who refused a supply mission last week, despite statements from their relatives that the soldiers would be discharged...
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The Pentagon is filling its ranks with young people who haven't finished high school  -  and a critical report says that kind of Army will be more expensive
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LANCASTER, Pa. -- Bill Schulz flipped through a list of Army careers, carefully watching the reaction of Tim Mathis, the 19-year-old construction worker perched next to him. When the potential recruit shrugged in disinterest, Schulz quickly moved to the next job, pointing to those that had the...
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Suicides among soldiers sent to Iraq swung back up last year after a decline, and Army officials said Tuesday it was difficult to interpret the development.
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The US 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 number of blacks joining the military has plunged by more than one-third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began, as other job prospects soar and relatives of potential recruits increasingly discourage them from signing up.
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The thousands of soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have overwhelmed the Army's system for evaluating their eligibility for disability benefits, leading to a near-total failure to complete such reviews in a timely manner, the service's inspector general concluded in a report...
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Some worry that not enough support exists to help US troops bear the psychological toll of having killed.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 12--THE ARMY has been its own worst enemy from a public relations standpoint in the delays and incompleteness of information released so far about Fort Carson expansion plans for Pinon Canyon.
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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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The military, so the saying goes, enlists a soldier but re-enlists a family.
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The Pentagon is filling its ranks with young people who haven't finished high school -- and a critical report says that kind of Army will be more expensive
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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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NATO operations in Afghanistan are being hampered by a shortage of troops and the alliance is continually pressing member nations to live up to their commitments, a senior NATO official said on Thursday.
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Some Army National Guard units may have to deploy overseas without a chaplain if recruitment incentives, including $10,000 signing bonuses, don't work to fill hundreds of vacant positions.
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