{"id":933,"date":"2005-07-06T00:23:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=933"},"modified":"2005-07-06T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T05:26:07","slug":"retention-and-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Retention and Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a piece from Gullyborg of <a href=\"http:\/\/gullyborg.typepad.com\/weblog_archive\/\">Resistance is Futile<\/a> that I consider a must-read look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/gullyborg.typepad.com\/weblog_archive\/2005\/06\/retention_and_r.html\">state of military recruitment issues<\/a> (courtesy the first <a href=\"http:\/\/unrepentantindividual.com\/2005\/07\/04\/carnival-of-liberty-1-2\/\">Carnival of Liberty<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since leaving active duty, I have maintained an active interest in our Armed Forces, following every news story and keeping abreast of military developments long before 9\/11 put our Soldiers and Sailors at the forefront of public opinion.  And never in my memory has there been such a relentless attack on the morale of our troops.<\/p>\n<p>I was too young to remember the Vietnam War.  But I am afraid I may living through its reincarnation, at least as far as our media establishment and our more liberal politicians are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But retention is up.  As Glenn Reynolds points out, our Troops in the field have a more positive view of things.  They are seeing what&#8217;s really happening, and they believe what&#8217;s happening is a good thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the whole thing to understand the undeniable dichotomy that the American military is currently facing &#8212; keeping those currently in uniform, especially those who have been in areas of operation, has been easier than usual but filling new uniforms has proven difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a piece from Gullyborg of Resistance is Futile that I consider a must-read look at the state of military recruitment issues (courtesy the first Carnival of Liberty). Since leaving active duty, I have maintained an active interest in our Armed Forces, following every news story and keeping abreast of military developments long before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}