The National Priorities Project has released its annual study of military recruitment. As one would expect, things got worse in 2007, the fifth year of a dispiriting war.
The decline in the quality of recruits continues. Where the goal is that 90% of recruits will have graduated from high school, in 2007 only 70.7% did; this is worse than 2005 (83.5%) and 2006 (73.1%). Another recruiting goal is that two-thirds of recruits will pass the Armed Forces Qualification Test as well as have graduated from high school; only 44.6% did in 2007. This is less than 2006, which, in turn, was less than 2005 (56.2%).
All of this costs us money in recruiting ($4billion a year) and training. Despite enlistment bonuses of as much as $40,000, the quality is just not there. What happens when an organization settles for second best, especially when the second best is armed?
Bring back the draft!.
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