Word: soper
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Recruiting for all four services combined is running at 101% of authorized goals, having reached 338,200 last year. (Overall military strength last year was 2.1 million.) "We've been closing out our quotas halfway through the month," says Sergeant Larry Soper, an Army recruiter in Tulsa. The retention rate is now so high (68% of those finishing their tours in fiscal 1982 reupped, and the percentage is even higher this year) that the services are refusing some re-enlistment applications and reducing annual recruiting targets. "They come in here and say to us, 'I want this...