[geeks] Special skills draft?

Brian Dunbar brian.dunbar at plexus.com
Thu Sep 23 10:48:35 CDT 2004


On Sep 23, 2004, at 10:38 AM, velociraptor wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:01:27 -0400, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:53:47AM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:
>>
>>> Right now, we've got an all volunteer military, and the volunteers 
>>> are
>>> coming in at such a rate that the draft is currently not needed.
>>
>> A man interviewed on the radio the other commented that they are 
>> coming
>> in at such a rate that they are having to turn people away.
>
> For all the services except the Army.  The Army had to
> intake deferred entry enlistees early this year to make it's
> quota.  (Hence the enlistment bonus increases.)

Funny that the Marines and the Army are in more-or-less the same 
business yet the Army has problems meeting their goals and the Marines 
meet their goals and then some, on a consistent basis.

~brian



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