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Economy Drives Army Recruitment
(WSB)--More and more young people are looking to the military for work in this bad economy.
Metro Atlanta recruiting offices are seeing an increase in the number of young people walking in looking for a career with the military. Sgt. 1st Class Fabian Byrd at the Smyrna Army Recruiting office tells WSB's Sabrina Gibbons he's seeing more qualified people these days. Sgt. 1st Class Byrd says it's easy to see why the U-S Army is attractive. He says "you have a guaranteed job, a guaranteed medical benefits, a guaranteed paycheck and you have 30 days of vacation every year."
The Army reported that 83% of its recruits in the year ending Sept. 30 had high school diplomas, up from 79% the previous year.
The percentage of young people who said they would probably join the military increased from 9% to 11% in the first half of this year, according to a Pentagon-sponsored survey. The poll questioned 3,304 young people ages 16 to 21.
What others are saying
- Economy Drives Army RecruitmentChange your perceptions! what better to fill the ranks!! BOOM !! kill the economy !! this is not happenstance..why judge the effects? look at the BELOW !!
- Military recruitmentThe tone of this article makes it come across that military service is little more than dignified welfare.
The article could have been more useful if some of the new recruits had been interviewed in order to get their perspective of what it means to them to serve.
Maybe my notion of dignified welfare would be proven false that way.
I am proud that I served for my 6 years and would never discourage anyone from going that route. - I have to concur with military. I enlisted, serevd 24 years and did so blindly. Now that I have had time to review what I have done with my life.. I see war differently under :GVT management". The finacial crisis has only cretaed a recruiting trend based on people seeking secuirty in a safe have. I would like to hear the story of what happens to the recruits after they are in.
Perosonally, I enjoyed the military job while in. I was focused on performing not so much for the military as doing my job like I would have done it for myself in the private sector. The GVT management has grown to where the parasite(GVT) is now bigger than the host(The private sector people of the US). and war is an economic tool and has been since 1898. - RecruitmentThis is, of course, completely predictable. The folks at the margins of finding productive work in an economic downturn will turn to readily available jobs in the destructive maw of war.
- Military30-plus years after enlisting I still have mixed thoughts if it was the right choice for me.
I did depart after two tours to SE Asia with a deep distrust of bureaucracies and a still-present hatred of the elite-class-owned federal government.
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