All Services Met Or Exceeded Recruiting Goals For The Month Of July
DoD Announces Recruiting and Retention Numbers for July 2008
The Department of Defense announced today its recruiting and retention statistics for the active and reserve components for the month of July.
· Active Duty Recruiting.
· July Monthly. All Services met or exceeded recruiting goals for the month of July (below) and for fiscal 2008 to date.
|
July 2008 |
Accessions |
Goal |
Percent |
| Army |
10,141 |
10,000 |
101 |
| Navy |
4,200 |
4,200 |
100 |
| Marine Corps |
4,783 |
4,094 |
117 |
| Air Force |
2,555 |
2,541 |
101 |
Active Duty Retention. Army, Navy and Marine Corps met or exceeded their cumulative goals for fiscal 2008 through July.
|
July 2008 |
Accessions |
Goal |
Percent |
| Army National Guard |
5,467 |
5,436 |
101 |
| Army Reserve |
2,971 |
2,906 |
102 |
| Navy Reserve |
551 |
551 |
100 |
| Marine Corps Reserve |
819 |
819 |
100 |
| Air National Guard |
936 |
725 |
129 |
| Air Force Reserve |
695 |
695 |
100 |
· Reserve Forces Recruiting.
July Monthly. All six reserve components met or exceeded their accession goals for July 2008.
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In 03, in the face of a strong economy, the army missed its recruiting goals for a few months. The MSM shit its pants in joy, “look, look, the Iraq war has destroyed the military, it Vietnam all over again, Americans are wimps and will not fight”. Now that all goals have been exceeded for years on end are we going to get a NYT essay on how well the military is doing and that it has probably never been less of a hollow force, that it has never had as many combat veterans and that it is at the strongest its ever been. Dont hold your breath.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:19 amThe MSM will simply say that the “tough economic times” have forced people with no other opportunities to join up. They never mention that the units with combat experience have the highest retention rates….funny how that works.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:48 amof course it’s because of the economy. And they’ll call for more taxes in order to fix this problem and keep people out of the US Army [which they view as a terrorist organization]
August 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am