Army adding recruiters to meet goals

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Before future soldier Tyka Petty, right, leaves for basic training, she meets with U.S. Army recruiter Sgt. Harry Harper at the U.S. Army Recruiting Station in Upper Darby, Pa., Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Army adding recruiters to meet goals
By Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press Writer | August 10, 2007

WASHINGTON --Nearing the end of a difficult year, Army recruiters are pulling extra staff from around the service to help meet their annual goal of finding 80,000 new enlistees before October.

Officials are trying to augment the normal staff of 8,000 recruiters by 1,000 to 2,000 people, bringing soldiers in temporarily from other jobs, said recruiting command spokesman S. Douglas Smith.

They also are more heavily promoting a program that uses new "gung-ho" troops to go out and talk about life in the service and one that offers troops referral payments for bringing a friend or acquaintance into the Army, Smith said.

"U.S. Army Recruiting Command is leveraging all available assets to successfully close out the fourth quarter of the recruiting year and achieve the annual mission of 80,000 new soldiers" for the budget year ending Sept. 30, Smith said Thursday.

After missing its monthly recruiting goals for two consecutive months, the Army is expected to announce Friday that it met its target for July. Though the number recruited in July was not available Thursday, the Army had signed up roughly 52,000 of the needed 80,000 recruits by the end of June.

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Even while they missed targets those two months, officials said they still believed they would make the overall goal for the fiscal year. Still, they don't want to take any chances.


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[onethatcares]

1. maybe, just maybe they could use

those guys with artificial limbs that run with the shrub. What better case to join?

[Fresh_Start]

2. I agree send the able bodied recruiters to war

give the injured vets a job and a paycheck being recruiters