The Army is having trouble again. They want to have 90% of their recruits with a high school diploma, but they also need to make the recruiting numbers in order to prevent a shortfall in people to do jobs. Well, they made their numbers, but they didn't make the 90% high school requirement.
As the article notes, if you enter the Army with a high school diploma, you have an 80% chance of finishing your term of enlistment. If you don't have a diploma, that chance drops to 50%. So we're making our short term goals (making the monthly recruitment targets), but creating a longer term problem (lower standards mean more recruits leaving, which just means you need higher recruitment to fill the larger holes). This does not bode well.
Posted by baltar at January 23, 2008 11:15 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Iraq | Military Affairs