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To: unclewest who wrote (112500)	5/4/2005 8:32:05 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793801

I'll let this rest for a while after this post from Army Times. I expect MSM to work this problem over. From Army Times. Army recruiters are hoping their summer goes a lot better than their spring has. For the third straight month all three components of the Army shipped less recruits to basic training than the Army wanted. But a statement in an Army press release Tuesday said the Army is “cautiously optimistic” that it will make the active Army’s fiscal year 2005 mission of 80,000. The active component hasn’t missed an annual goal since 1999. The active Army shipped only 59 percent of its monthly mission in April. The April goal was 6,600 recruits, but just 3,914 were sent, according to the release. That means it shipped only 84 percent of the recruits it was hoping to have at seven months into fiscal year 2005, which began Oct. 1. The Army Reserve sent 62 percent of the recruits it wanted in April, the fourth consecutive month the Reserve component has missed mission. Only 835 were shipped against the 1,355 the Reserve was aiming for. This puts the Reserve at 79 percent of the goal it had set for this point of the year. The press release said the National Guard believes it also missed its April mission. The Guard estimates that it has achieved about 79 percent of its year-to-date goal. The Guard has missed its monthly targets every month this fiscal year. Exact Guard recruiting numbers for April have not yet been released. The month of May has the third highest active Army goal with recruiters told to send 8,050 recruits to basic training. Army Reserve recruiters have a May mission of 1,355. Guard recruiters are aiming to ship 5,866. Army officials have said their optimism is based on the fact that the summer months are traditionally recruiters’ busiest months of the year.