Re: "plans for growth"?
- From: "Casper (formerly prince caspian)" <senwb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Sep 2005 08:17:52 -0700
I don't know, seems like a good deal to me, why wouldn't you want to
go?
Sanity RE wrote:
> I'm just venting again. Don't pay me no never mind.
>
> "By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
> 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
> WASHINGTON - The Army is closing the books on one of the leanest
> recruiting years since it became an all-volunteer service three decades
> ago, missing its enlistment target by the largest margin since 1979 and
> raising questions about its plans for growth."
>
> The Army openly says it's a growth industry? Jingoism gone wild. The
> Armed Forces are a business, know it, and openly tell the world about
> their "plans for growth." The above was gleaned from an Associated
> Press article titled: "Army Faces Worst Recruiting Slump in Years".
>
> Oddest thing is: very few kids these days want to volunteer to serve
> that industry. Well, maybe they're wising up. I mean, why should they
> want to wear heavy body armor in scorching heat to foist a form of
> government illegally on Iraq while Cheney's Haliburton rakes in no bid
> $ and they get used as way cheap rent-a-cops?
>
> Sanity RE
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