Reply #12: This why their will be a Draft

[dave502d]

Colonel Hackworth,

I don't have any breaking news from the recruiting front for you, but I just wanted to illuminate the terrain from where I am deployed. I have been on the Drill Sergeant trail here at Ft XXXX for two years now and it's becoming painfully obvious to me what our recruiters must be going through. We are smack in the middle of what would normally be our busiest time of the year. However, we are just not that busy. Where as we would usually have about 300 privates in our AIT company, we currently are hovering somewhere around 200. It's very odd to walk down the hallways in the barracks and see whole 8 man rooms empty. I'm not going to say that the quality of soldiers has declined, because I respect the hell out of these young people for having the balls to volunteer for the Army when they know damn good and well where they are going upon graduation.