AFTER MEETING END-STRENGTH GOAL EARLY, ARMY REDUCES RECRUITING

/ May 4, 2009 at 5:00 AM
As a result of meeting its goal for active-duty end strength early, the Army is scaling back its recruiting efforts for fiscal year 2009 and reorienting its focus from growing the Army to sustaining and balancing it. When the "Grow the Army" initiative was first announced in 2007, its deadline for growing the force was 2012. That date had been moved up over the years. The FY-09 budget was built based on forecasts that had the Army meeting the goal...

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