Posted on 07/05/2007 4:35:08 PM PDT by CAWats
(CBS) Eighteen-year-old Manuel Caceres signed up for the Army National Guard today.
He is part of a dramatic turnaround in what had been a losing battle to fill the ranks. With the National Guard serving — and dying — on the front lines in Iraq, those ranks had fallen to a new low by the summer of 2005, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
"We had to take some different actions because what we were doing was not working," said Col. Mike Jones, the Guard's head recruiter.
Jones now pays members of the Guard $2,000 for every recruit they can deliver to basic training.
"That absolutely turned the corner," Jones said. "We’ve had over 35,000 people brought into the National Guard in the last 19 months as a result of the recruit assistance program."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Jones now pays members of the Guard $2,000 for every recruit they can deliver to basic training.Now that's a bounty. Have we matched what al Qaeda pays for every US soldier killed or maimed?
The liars at CBS need to stop rooting for terrorists.
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