Word: reenlistment
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...tacit acknowledgment that the Army is stretched too thin, he maintains in a section he entitles "The Thin Green Line." The service's failure to achieve its recruiting goal in 2005-the first time it has missed it since 1999-and hefty bonuses for soldiers to reenlist are further evidence of the Army's erosion, he writes...
...Many recognize that they are little more than an occupying, rather than a liberating, army. Half of troops responding in a recent survey by the Pentagon-funded newspaper Stars & Stripes said that morale was either low or very low in their units and that they did not plan to reenlist. One-third said they would characterize the war in Iraq as having little or no value. On Wednesday, Reuters reported the Army’s disclosure that at least 13 soldiers have committed suicide in Iraq. Despite these conditions—Bush, who himself avoided serving in Vietnam?...