Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Another Bad Day

For al-Queada and its American useful idiots.

Many thanks and best wishes to those men and women who have chosen to serve.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Did they not take Murtha's advice?

MeaninglessHotAir said...

One boogeyman down, a million more to put up.

If you don't have any integrity whatsoever, couldn't care less about the discrepancies between what you argue one season or the next, why not just throw whatever s*** you can dig up, whether it makes sense or not?

MeaninglessHotAir said...

Mark,

Why are you so hateful?

Rick Ballard said...

MHA,

You provided the answer above:

"If you don't have any integrity whatsoever, couldn't care less about the discrepancies between what you argue one season or the next, why not just throw whatever s*** you can dig up, whether it makes sense or not?"

Mark is a running sore - it isn't just politics, the rest of his life is the same way. He might generate a bit of pity were he not so contemptible.

Eric said...

Mark apparently is confused about what year he's talking about. (Or maybe just confused, from what I can see.)

From this, we see for 2005
http://www.army.mil/recruitingandretention/

Salient points:
The active-duty Army gained 8,710 new Soldiers into its ranks in September, exceeding that month’s goal of 8,365 by 345. Fiscal year 2005 active-duty Army recruitment goals stood at 92 percent complete, with 73,373 new Soldiers joining the force. The mission goal was to recruit 80,000.
• The Army Reserve accessed 2,208 Soldiers into its ranks during September, exceeding its goal by 190 Soldiers. At the end of fiscal year 2005, the Reserves Army accessed 23,859 Soldiers, 84 percent of its mission goal of 28,485.
• The Army National Guard gained 6,048 Soldiers in September, 98 percent of its monthly goal of 6,148. A total of 50,219 Soldiers joined the Guard’s ranks by the end of the fiscal year, 80 percent of its recruitment goal of 63,002.


So, what can we say from this? Well, despite the negative drumbeat in the media, The Army nearly made its goals for new recruits, and in anycase, got 147,451 soldiers out of a desired 171,487, or 86%.

I feel this is more significant though:

The active-duty Army closed the fiscal year at 108 percent of its retention mission. The goal was to re-enlist 64,162 Soldiers and 69,512 Soldiers actually reenlisted.
• The Army Reserve closed out fiscal year 2005 at 102 percent of its retention mission, with 16,485 Soldiers reenlisting. The goal was to retain 16,248 Soldiers.
• The Army National Guard finished 2005 at 104 percent. The Guard reenlisted 33,804 Soldiers, surpassing its goal by 1,233.


The Reenlistments are above what the Army was actually looking for. So, as I think has been pointed out elsewhere, those that know, are continuing the mission.

Now if one googles "Army recruiting 2005", one will find lots of negative stories about it from May and June of 2005.

Curiously, no media outlets appear to have bothered to write anything after that.

I'd be curious to see recruiting trends by month for like, the last 20 years to see if there are seasonal issues as well.