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recruitment stories: 22 news summaries

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 Economy Sparks 
 Record Military 
 Recruitment 

Bleak employment, bonuses boost numbers to highest level since draft ended

Oct 14, 09 3:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The recession has helped boost the US military to its best recruitment year since the post-Vietnam switch to an all-volunteer force. Recruiters hit or exceeded all their targets for the first time since 1973, surprising even Pentagon officials. In addition to rising unemployment, recruiting was helped by bonuses, a recruiting... More »

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Army recruiting • US military • recruitment • US Army • unemployment • military recruits • Defense Dept


 Army Recruiters' 
 Video Arcade 
 Draws Fire 

Simulations ignore 'reality of war itself:' Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges

Sep 11, 09 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Army Experience Center in Philadelphia—a sort of video arcade/recruiting center—has numerous detractors, and those opponents have an influential ally. “This is just a new version of an old attempt” at recruiting, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges tells dscriber.... More »

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Army recruiting • US military • Pennsylvania • protests • Philadelphia • recruitment • anti war movement • video games • Chris Hedges • Army Experience Center

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No Child Left Unrecruited

Pentagon uses NCLB, other sneaky means
to get info on teens
in high school

Sep 1, 09 3:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The military is using a host of behind-the-scenes methods—including the No Child Left Behind Act—to gather information on high school students for recruitment, writes David Goodman in Mother Jones. A little-known provision in NCLB, for instance, requires schools that get funding to supply recruiters with info on... More »

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Pentagon • Army recruiting • US military • recruitment • Department of Defense • data mining • high school students • Army Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

'09 Grads Picky Despite Grim Jobs Market

Below-par jobs rejected as grads wait for economy to rebound

Jul 25, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many of this year's college grads are confounding career advisers by rejecting suggestions that they can't afford to be choosy about what job to take in a recession, the New York Times reports. The grads say they don't want to be forced into less-than-ideal jobs and career paths by economic... More »

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higher education • employment • recruitment • unemployment • college graduates • job vacancies

Economic Muck Gives GOP Hope for New Blood in 2010

Candidate recruitment up amid bad news for Dems

Jul 9, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - As bad economic reports keep coming, Republicans are seeing candidate recruitment soar, the Hill reports. The party has had “probably its first good couple weeks in four years,” says an analyst, fueled in large part by rising unemployment and sinking stocks. Meanwhile, Democrats have lost top Senate candidate... More »

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Congress • stock market • recruitment • Republican Party • unemployment • Senate race • economy • Lisa Madigan • House race • Election 2010 • Mark Kirk • Kelly Ayotte

Case of Autistic Marine Sheds Light on Recruitment Ethics 

Struggling to fill quotas, recruiters' practices called into question

Jul 6, 09 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Operating in a war-weary America, military recruiters face a difficult task—and some are skirting ethics to fill their quotas, the Los Angeles Times reports. While substantiated cases against recruiters are relatively few—593 claims were verified in fiscal 2007, which saw 319,229 enlistees—the case of an autistic... More »

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autism • recruits • recruitment • military recruits • Camp Pendleton • Marine Corps • Marines

(Newser) - Major defense contractors are already staffed with "hacker soldiers" who can help them earn billions of dollars in Washington's new cyberwar, the New York Times reports. Cranking rock tunes and piling up pop cans, engineers hack away at companies like Raytheon, working for the Pentagon or protecting internal documents.... More »

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Raytheon • cyberwarfare • US military • recruitment • computer security • Obama administration • defense contractors • President Obama

 CIA Wants You, I-Banker 


May 28, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA is looking for a few good bankers to track down millionaire bad guys and stymie financial terrorism, the New York Post reports. Ads on Bloomberg Radio ask money whizzes to use their “intelligence for the work of a nation.” The $160,000 salary will probably be... More »

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Wall Street • CIA • recruitment • hedge fund • investment bankers • financial sector • terrorism financing • professional

London Teen: How I Was Recruited for Jihad

Group meeting in mosque invited boy to outside gatherings

May 17, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Islamists approached him in the mosque, and before he knew it a 15-year-old Londoner was watching jihadist videos and being encouraged to train in Pakistan, the boy tells the Times of London in the “first inside account” of the recruitment process. “A lot of people think that... More »

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terrorism • London • jihad • extremists • recruitment • mosque • Britain • martyrdom • teenager

 Army May Not Want 
 You So Bad After All 

Jobless rate drives surge in applicants

Apr 19, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rising unemployment and safer conditions in Iraq have boosted interest in joining the Army, allowing recruiters to raise acceptance standards. The Washington Post reports that felons and recent drug users need not apply, and the pool of applicants also is better educated. For the first time since 2004, the Army... More »

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Army recruiting • US military • drug use • felony • recruitment • US Army • military recruits • Iraq war • Afghanistan war

OPINION

 Let's Help Vets 
 Avoid Extremist Urge 


Apr 18, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The recent Homeland Security report detailing right-wing extremist recruitment of veterans is “true, true, true,” Charles M. Blow writes in the New York Times. But “conservatives reacted by throwing a knee-jerk hissy fit,” suggesting that vets “were being vilified by a partisan document.”... More »

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veterans • US military • recruitment • Department of Homeland Security • white supremacism • PTSD • right-wing extremism

US Military Woos Recruits With Citizenship Offer

Armed forces to recruit temporary immigrants

Feb 15, 09 7:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Aiming to swell its ranks as it fights two wars, the US military will offer skilled temporary immigrants who enlist a shot at becoming citizens in just six months, the New York Times reports. Immigrants with temporary visas who have been in the US at least two years will now... More »

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 Army Recruiting Soars 
 as Job Dry Up 

Recruitment soars with unemployment

Jan 19, 09 4:54 AM CST
(Newser) - The recession has swelled military recruitment, bumping the forces past their goals for the first time since 2004, reports the New York Times. Many Americans are being enticed from a flagging job market by the promised stability and benefits. The Army—whose recruiting has struggled most under the shadow of... More »

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US military • recession • recruitment • Army Reserves • US Army • unemployment • military recruits • job

 The Army Wants You. 
 30,000 More of You. 

Pentagon says Army is overstretched

Dec 25, 08 5:39 AM CST
(Newser) - The US Army wants you, and about 30,000 of your friends, if it's going to fight effectively in Afghanistan and Iraq and complete other missions around the world, reports the Washington Post. Increased demands are being made on troops in places like Africa, Korea, and cyberspace, and while... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Pentagon • cyberwarfare • recruitment • US Army • troop levels • homeland defense • Nelson Ford • intelligence-gathering • Donald H. Rumsfeld • Fort Stewart

Mumbai-Linked Terror Crew
Hunts Western Recruits

Lashkar-e-Taiba seen as stepping stone to al-Qaeda

Dec 8, 08 9:52 AM CST
(Newser) - The Islamic militant group thought to be behind the Mumbai terror attacks has recruited Westerners, particularly Americans and Britons, to aid in planning and executing attacks, the Los Angeles Times reports. A 23-year-old Brit, convicted this year on terror-related charges, was among the Lashkar-e-Taiba adherents helping get converts to Pakistan... More »

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British • recruitment • terrorist • Mumbai • militant • al-Qaeda • American • Lashkar-e-Taiba • Westerner

Military Recruitment Up
Amid Job Crisis 

Pending Iraq withdrawal also increasing appeal

Nov 19, 08 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - More young people are considering joining the military as civilian jobs dry up and the US begins to prepare plans to withdraw from Iraq, reports USA Today. After years of difficulty finding recruits, a Pentagon survey shows a jump from 9% to 11% in the number of 16- to 20-year-old ... More »

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Iraq • Pentagon • US military • recruitment • US economy • financial crisis

Armed Forces Enlist More Criminals

Trend may undermine 'military readiness,' lawmaker says

Apr 21, 08 8:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Army and Marines are signing up more felons in an effort to overcome flagging enlistment, the AP reports. The Army doubled its recruitment of felons last year and the Marines upped theirs from 208 to 350—including conscripts with sex crime and manslaughter convictions. The rise in felon... More »

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recruitment • US Army • felon • Marine • military recruits

Explosion Hits Times Square Recruiting Office

None injured in blast that damaged entrance

Mar 6, 08 6:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Police are investigating an explosion that shattered the entrance to an Army recruitment office in Times Square early this morning, the AP reports. No one was injured, but police cordoned off the area, and prevented subway trains from stopping in the square briefly. “I was up on the 44th... More »

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terrorism • New York City • Army recruiting • recruitment • Times Square

Canaries Get Company in Coal Mines: Recent Grads

Industry luring youth to replace aging workforce

Oct 31, 07 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Coal-mining companies are successfully recruiting college kids, promising better work conditions than the industry’s muddied image might suggest, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Some 60% of the current workforce could retire over the next decade, and jobs are suddenly abundant; young people are finding themselves explaining to their parents... More »

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college • recruitment • coal mining • dangerous jobs • job security

Gates Eyes $3B Army Expansion

Gates ready to approve major recruitment campaign to boost ranks

Sep 28, 07 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he's likely to approve spending nearly $3 billion over the next four years to accelerate an expansion of the US Army, stretched thin by punishing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the AP reports. The Pentagon believes the Army and Marine Corps need to grow to... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Pentagon • Robert Gates • recruitment • US Army • defense secretary • expansion • high school graduates • Marine

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