[SandRat]

The Loony Left is made to look like fools ---- AGAIN!!!

[pfflier]

Air Force magazine says the USAF is riffing lieutenants or offering them a chance to go "blue to green".

[AmeriBrit]

How can that be?

The media keeps telling us the whole country is against the military and war! Surely they're not lying AGAIN? [sarc]

You know if any of them dare print this it will be on page 28, below the fold and in the smallest print available......swine that they are!

[Our man in washington]

It's interesting that the Navy Reserves fell short. The Navy Reserves might have one of the few examples of a recruiting program that was cut off because it was too successful.

When I joined in 2002, the Navy Reserves had a special track for older recruits. Boot camp was a mere 17 days long. The Navy easily exceeded its recruiting targets. The problem was thousands of reservists without experience were flooding the reserve posts, and the Navy didn't have the personnel to train them. The Navy cancelled the program.

All recruits now have to go boot camp for the full 8 1/2 weeks. The Navy Reserve has been consistently missing its targets ever since then.

I'm not saying the Navy personnel policy is good or bad--just noting the cause and effect.

I think an older recruit wouldn't necessarily need the full 8 1/2 weeks. Presumably, a reasonably succesful 30 year-old professional would already know how to be part of a team and follow orders. But then again, I haven't yet been called to active duty, so I haven't seen how those with a shortened boot camp perform in a combat situation.

I wonder if the Navy has ever considered reinstating the 17 day boot camp, but being more selective with its recruiting.

[Goldie Lurks]

"He [Whitman] emphasized that the department has not lowered recruiting standards, despite "myths" that have surfaced in the media."
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"Myths"...much to kind of a word. "Lies" is a more appropriate word.

Now Hear This..Congressman Murtha (D) from PA..Our colors don't run!

[river rat]

One has to wonder if the "standards" have been reduced, to meet recruiting quotas.

A combination of "non-citizen" warriors, and the increase in "reported" criminal behavior has been disturbing...

If the "quota" has become MORE important than the quality of the recruit - they are doing a grave disservice to the honorable warriors, buy exposing the reputation of the whole to the criminal behavior of the few..

I would have thought that Boot Camp would have weeded out the unsuitable. Has Boot Camp become too "sensitive" to accomplish that task?

Semper Fi