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To: tejek who wrote (207962)	10/21/2004 2:07:27 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570952

Army's Recruiters Miss Target For Enlistees in Latest Month Reserves Fall 45% Short Of Goal, While Gap Is 30% In Regular Force Sign-Ups By CHRISTOPHER COOPER and GREG JAFFE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 20, 2004; Page A7 For the second straight year, U.S. Army recruiters fell short of their goal for signing up enlistees in the first month of a new recruiting cycle. For the first 30-day period in its new recruiting year, the Army was 30% shy of its goal of signing up 7,274 recruits. The Army had a particularly hard time recruiting for the Army Reserve, on which the Pentagon has relied heavily in Iraq and Afghanistan. Enlistments for the reserves were 45% below the target. In the same period last year, the Army came up 25% short in its goal in the first month for enlisting 6,220 regular recruits and 40% short of its reserve enlistment goal. The monthly targets are used as guideposts by the Army toward its ultimate recruiting goals. They refer to the number of people it hopes to sign up who promise to report for duty within a 12-month period. But it measures its ultimate success in any given year by the number of people who actually report for duty. A rush of recruits reporting for duty late in the year thus can compensate for weak sign-up numbers early in a year.