“The Pentagon was supposed to release its monthly report on military recruiting Wednesday but didn’t,” reports Salon’s War Room.
Raise your hands, kids, if you think you know why! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! It’s not a recruiting problem, sillies, it’s … uh … oh yeah, here we go:
Now raise your hands if you understood that.
Graduating high schoolers are avoiding recruiters. Nobody wants to be cannon fodder, and there are problems with methods such as a recruiter’s inopportune phone call, told by a parent in TownOnline:
More on those dastardly Bush-hatin’ statistics below:
More from Salon’s War Room:
And last month, a report on overseas base closings disappeared from the Web site of the government commission that produced it. A Pentagon spokesman said the report was pulled because it revealed classified information. What was so secret? A source told the the Washington Post that the Pentagon’s complaint seemed to be that the report identified Bulgaria and Romania — rather than “Eastern Europe” more generally — as countries U.S. troops might use for training. If that seems like a minor distinction, then just maybe there was another explanation: The report criticized Donald Rumsfeld.
P.S. The TownOnline article is especially good on recruiting methods and shortfalls.