Comments on: Military Recruiting Crisis

By: Jack Army

Jack Army — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:37:04 +0000

More about the current difficulties with Army Recruiting Some analysts" are still idiots, though. I'm referring to the analysts that think we should start recruiting openly gay people and open combat arms jobs to females. It seems like they don't understand that there are reasons why the Army isn't recru...

By: SSG Dean, Gregory

SSG Dean, Gregory — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:08:54 +0000

What everyone forgets is that the last time we had a draft, the Army was over 1.6 million soldiers. The whole active military today is only 1.5 million service members plus another million reservists and Guard memebers. During the Vietnam era, over 14 years, one out of three males was in the service. That is 11 million out of 27 million (less than 3 million served in Vietnam).

We do not need more active duty. At best the active side needs to only be no more than 2 million. What we do need is more reservists, about 5 to 7 million. With a larger reserve force we have a surge capacity in times of war or stress. And a larger reserve force means that all troops, both active and reserve, would not have to have the current Op Tempo but rather have tours spread out a bit more.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:04:09 +0000

This war was lost the day Bush launched it. A report by the official US Army historian says that the US lost control in Iraq three months after the invasion and has never regained it.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453436.980555556.html