No analysis necessary:
(AP) The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year, helping the service beat its goal of 80,000 recruits in the throes of an unpopular war and mounting casualties.
The recruiting mark comes a year after the Army missed its recruitment target by the widest margin since 1979, which had triggered a boost in the number of recruiters, increased bonuses, and changes in standards.
The Army recruited 80,635 soldiers, roughly 7,000 more than last year. Of those, about 70,000 were first-time recruits who had never served before.
According to statistics obtained by The Associated Press, 3.8 percent of the first-time recruits scored below certain aptitude levels. In previous years, the Army had allowed only 2 percent of its recruits to have low aptitude scores. That limit was increased last year to 4 percent, the maximum allowed by the Defense Department.
Ok, this isn't going to destroy the army. And I'm not going to take the time to make this a jab against the Bush administration. The point is that we are slowly ruining the finest military on the planet in a completely useless war that eventually we're going to abandon anyway.
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Our Army hasn't sunk to the depths of Vietnam (nor will it-there's no draft) but yes, we are slowly breaking the finest military machine on the planet...and undoing our own dominance.
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