Christian Science Monitor

03/09/05

A study conducted by the Army last year and posted recently on a Defense Contracting Command website (but since removed after news stories discussed the study) indicates that women and young black men are increasingly staying away from the Army. The poll, based on interviews with 3,236 youth ages 16 to 24, showed that 'recruiting an all-volunteer Army in times of war is getting increasingly difficult.' Associated Press reports that these trends, combined with 'the negative effects of the Army's image as a last-resort career choice for what one study called the 'average Joe,'' mean the military, and the Army in particular, could be entering a 'prolonged recruting slump' just at the time when the US government wants to increase the Army's numbers...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0309/dailyUpdate.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp