Army makes June recruitment targets
Here.
Still a ways to go, though.
But the active-duty Army, three-quarters through fiscal 2005, remained 14 percent -- about 7,800 recruits -- behind its year-to-date target and was in danger of missing its first annual recruiting goal since 1999, officials said. Its goal for fiscal 2005, ending on Sept. 30, is 80,000 recruits.
The "since 1999" bit makes me wonder if falling unemployment rates might not have as much to do with recruitment rates as the war does.