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The Army announced yesterday that it met its stated recruiting goal of 80,000 new active-duty soldiers for fiscal 2007, but senior Army and Defense Department officials said the service fell short of a larger internal goal of several thousand more troops necessary to expand the size of the overall force.

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posted at 18:10:06 on 10/03/07 - Category: Army

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Curtis wrote:

What steps should we take to expand to over 100,000 strong next year?
10/03/07 23:20:45

mario wrote:

reactivate the 20,000 quick ship bonus that would help a ton!!!
10/04/07 03:29:06

Bad Username wrote:

I wonder how many are immigrants looking for citizenship...
10/04/07 11:27:07

haboucha abdellatif wrote:

how can i joy the army in other country i am morrocan i have 35 years old my msn aloustadkanito@hotmail.com
10/05/07 12:05:17

mario wrote:

actually they only exceeded their goal by 407 recruites. which is not a whole lot and were well short of there other stated goal of i believe 83,000. And on top of that only 79% of the recruited were high school grads. which is not good. I believe we had the strongest army in the world not only because of the training but also because of the intelligence of the army. Knowledge is power.
10/10/07 14:31:55

bonus wrote:

By only 407? it is still early in the year. Every recruit after this is another bonus.
10/11/07 16:00:25

work in progress wrote:

actually no its not a bonus. Because the fiscal year has ended already i believe it ends at the end of september. So every recruit they have right now is barely cracking into this years goal. And like i said before they only exceeded their normal goals by 407 this last fiscal year. they havent even come close to what they need in order to expand the army to i believe 547,000. they have a long way to go!!!
10/12/07 15:33:07

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