Military Recruiting Is Successful
And it’s not due to the military raising the enlistment age either.
Critics of the Iraq war often slam the Bush Administration for sending unwitting American soldiers off to an unwinnable battle. The question is: On whose behalf are these concerned folks speaking?
Not the military, judging from the impressive recruitment and retention numbers for the armed forces just released by the Defense Department. The Pentagon announced yesterday that in fiscal 2006 the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines all met or exceeded active-duty recruitment goals. More impressive, the number of active duty servicemen who re-enlisted exceeded the DoD’s goals in every area. Looks like many troops believe in the mission enough to willingly return to a difficult battlefield. . . .
Critics took an immediate swipe at the new numbers, arguing that the Army had raised recruits’ maximum allowable age to 42 from 35. Yet it turns out a tiny fraction—maybe 500—of new soldiers fall into that category.
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This is a powerful point about our mission in the middle east that Americans need to consider before they buy into the media/Democrat’s negativity on the issue. The folks who are actually responsible for waging this war on the ground support it. And not just with words, either. They support it with their lives and their blood, and when given the opportunity to choose between coming home or going back for another round a lot of these men and women are choosing to go back.
Our military is not worn out or stretched too thin, as many liberals suggest. The war in Iraq is not a lost cause either. Our troops support it, and if we could get more of the blathering fools in Washington to get behind victory in Iraq (I’m looking at you, Democrats) then we’d have a lot easier time completing our mission there.
