Posted on Sep 23, 2018
Army misses 2018 recruiting goal, which hasn't happened since 2005
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I asked about this back in June and Stars and Stripes confirmed it yesterday. When you miss your goal, what do you do? The Army just missed a target of 6,500 additional recruits. I didn't get a phone call to come back to the recruiters office, something doesn't seem right here.
Army misses 2018 recruiting goal, which hasn't happened since 2005
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3.9% unemployment rate and more jobs than workers. I predicted this some time back. There is a small percentage of us that enlist for patriotic reasons, unless an event like 9/11 occurs.
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When the economy is poor or these is an unpopular war such as the Vietnam War recruiting goals tend to be missed CPO Tim Dickey
Since the economy is surging along and unemployment is at a long time low [April unemployment rate came in at 3.9%, its first sub-4% print since December 2000] the U.S. Army competes with business and industry and even higher education.
I am familiar with accessions and supervised the process at Fort Benning for a couple years.
1. Recruiting goals include a factor for expected washout in training for medical, performance, etc..
2. The best soldiers tend to come from rural, industrial and inner cities as they always have. Those numbers are generally consistent. I expect the inner city and rural recruiting numbers are consistent while industrial may be waning because industry is picking up in this nation under the policies of the Trump administration.
I expect this will turn around as the Army reverses some of the trends from the Obama era including:
1. pushing for complete gender integration independent of logic
2. encouraging field planning and operations organizations to doctor reports before sending them up [particularly in organization supporting OEF in the broad context which included Iraq and Syria.]
3. Minimizes recruiting goals by gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. and focuses on recruiting those with the best potential :-)
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi LTC (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Jeff S. CPT Jack Durish MSgt Robert C Aldi SFC Stephen King MSgt Danny Hope SGT Gregory Lawritson Cpl Craig Marton SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
Since the economy is surging along and unemployment is at a long time low [April unemployment rate came in at 3.9%, its first sub-4% print since December 2000] the U.S. Army competes with business and industry and even higher education.
I am familiar with accessions and supervised the process at Fort Benning for a couple years.
1. Recruiting goals include a factor for expected washout in training for medical, performance, etc..
2. The best soldiers tend to come from rural, industrial and inner cities as they always have. Those numbers are generally consistent. I expect the inner city and rural recruiting numbers are consistent while industrial may be waning because industry is picking up in this nation under the policies of the Trump administration.
I expect this will turn around as the Army reverses some of the trends from the Obama era including:
1. pushing for complete gender integration independent of logic
2. encouraging field planning and operations organizations to doctor reports before sending them up [particularly in organization supporting OEF in the broad context which included Iraq and Syria.]
3. Minimizes recruiting goals by gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. and focuses on recruiting those with the best potential :-)
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi LTC (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Jeff S. CPT Jack Durish MSgt Robert C Aldi SFC Stephen King MSgt Danny Hope SGT Gregory Lawritson Cpl Craig Marton SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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