We’ve been covering the ongoing struggles of the US military to meet its recruiting goals here for some time now, particularly the Army. Having missed their goals yet again last year, they are currently short of their target number of soldiers by many thousands. With no new influx of recruits in sight, the Army announced this week that they are deploying a new strategy to address the problem. They will eliminate roughly 24,000 positions among their ranks. If you find yourself wondering how that’s going to help the Army get back to the required staffing levels, it won’t. This is more of a cosmetic policy change than anything else and it’s being done to make the numbers on paper look a bit less awful than they do right now. (Fox News)
As the U.S. Army struggles with recruitment, the service is cutting its force by about 24,000 in a restructuring that it says will help the service…
