unhappy mortals : army recruiters

how much 
more can 5,500 guys do
to protect our  liberties?

by 
son of sam 




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" it is the fate of those who toil
   at the lower employments of life
 to be exposed to censure
           without hope of praise 
to be disgraced by miscarriage
or punished for neglect 
where success 
      would have been without applause..."
                                         samuel johnson  

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the recruiter "can only hope to escape reproach"

and yet even this negative recompense 
has lately 
    been granted to fewer and fewer ....


 somethin in the news last week ...

 

"By the Army's own count
 there were 320 substantiated
cases of what it calls 
recruitment improprieties 
in
2004

 up from 199 in 1999
 the last year it missed its
active-duty recruitment goal
 and 213 in 2002
 the year
before the war in Iraq started

 The offenses varied
from threats and coercion
 to false promises 
that
applicants would not
 be sent to Iraq

 Many incidents
involved more than one recruiter
 and the number of
those investigated rose 
to 1,118 last year
 or nearly
one in five of all recruiters
 up from 913 in 2002
 or
one in eight"

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where does all this  sass a frass start?

with facts on the ground like these :

" Last month the U.S. Army failed
to meet its goal of 6,800 new troops"

your army needs  nearly
  80,000 warm new bodies each year 

and thats where the recruiters come in .....