GIs martching away from re-enlistment

[mom cat]

GIs marching away from re-enlistment
War may have some Fort Carson troops leaving the ranks

By Dick Foster, Rocky Mountain News
June 14, 2004

COLORADO SPRINGS - Army re-enlistments have dropped suddenly and dramatically at Fort Carson and several other posts where combat units have recently returned from Iraq.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/america_at_war/article/0,1299,DRMN_2116_2961385,00.html

The surprising decline within the past 21/2 months has jolted recruiters and military analysts and provoked questions about the war's effect on the Army's recruiting ability.

Since Fort Carson units began coming home in April, post recruiters have met only 57 percent of their quota for re-enlisting first-term soldiers for a second hitch, according to an Army report.

More disturbing, recruiters say, is they're re-enlisting only 46 percent of the quota for "mid-career" noncommissioned officers. These are the young sergeants with four to 10 years of experience who are the backbone of the Army - its skilled soldiers, mentors and future senior NCOs.

[saigon68]

1. Our Family is sitting this one out.

No one I know is going to enlist in this illegal Oily WAR for corporate profits. When the draft starts the matter will be settled in the streets of Amerika.

[Catch22Dem]

4. Yeah no shit

I'm glad I got out in Oct 2000. Means I didn't serve ONCE MINUTE in Bush's military.

[Momof1]

2. Why should they re-enlist? They can get a job at

Halliburton and make $100,000 a year. Think of how pissed the troops are. They are in the same place, doing the same work for a fraction of what the private contractors are making.

[Kagemusha]

3. Wow, no one could've seen *this* coming. (Not.)

How can they possibly be shocked.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. "...surprising decline..."???? I can't believe ANYONE would be...

...surprised by our troops not wanting to re-enlist. After all, the cat's out of the bag in terms of not having ANY reason for being in Iraq in the first place!

[leftchick]

7. the only ones surprised by this are the usual suspects.....

rummy, cheney, perle, wolfie and dimbulb*... the clueless wonders of AmeriKa.

[Wapsie B]

6. And everyone remember now,

it was Slick Willie that decimated the military.

/sarcasm

[Dr Fate]

8. Bush will continue to wreck the economy, thus causing enlistments...

...or so sez my conspiratorial side...

[number6]

9. just what I would expect .....

Army re-enlistments have dropped suddenly and dramatically ...

[Jacobin]

10. "Suprise"????

What glass bubble did the writer of this news article jump out of?

[Moderator]

11. duplicate

Please enlist in the previous thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=623027