Article: OUR LOST ARMY; EXCLUSIVE Crisis as 615 soldiers go AWOL or off sick.(News)

Article: US Army, marines unable to meet recruitment goals.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  June 9, 2005 ;     260 words ......straight month, the Army fell short of recruiting goal by 25 per cent. If it had stuck...have been 38 per cent. The National Guard--citizen army--missed target by 20 per cent while the Marine...April it was 42 per cent. The Army's fiscal 2005 goal...

Article: OUR LOST ARMY; EXCLUSIVE Crisis as 615 soldiers go AWOL or off sick.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  July 11, 2008 ;     688 words ......soared almost 25per cent in just a year. The...reveal the depth of the Army manpower crisis. And...about quitting. The Army's spokesman in Scotland...insisted: Ninetynine per cent of soldiers who go...personnel found 47 per cent of people in the Army and Navy regularly...

Article: Army aims for quality recruits instead of 'thickies' Stretched by commitments overseas, the Army is having trouble retaining troops. To combat this it is targeting motivated, bright youngsters. It also hopes a band of Fijians will help break down barriers for ethnic recruits. PETER ALMOND reports
Evening Standard - London;  July 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ......2002 some 50 per cent of all school-leavers...higher education, the Army is preparing to...1999-2000 was three per cent but the Army reached only 2.2 per cent last year and must consider a five per cent target by 2002...strongly on making the Army's image appealing...

Article: Time to sign up and do your duty ; RECRUITMENT ++ THE ARMY ++ Despite the war in Iraq, the number of people wanting to enlist is higher than ever before.
The Independent - London;  April 12, 2007 ;     611 words ......Territorial Army and the regular Army, which this month started recruiting together as One Army Recruitment, attracted nearly 18,500 new recruits. For the Army, that's an increase of 11 per cent on the previous year. It is...white and male. Just 3.8 per cent of recruits last year ...

Article: Army says 'key danglers' are luring away soldiers
Evening Standard - London;  September 23, 1999 ;     390 words ......Signals are now 27 per cent short of personnel...Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps. Overall...the same period. The Army has fared worst of...increasing by 10 per cent over the previous...the RAF a big 20 per cent increase in recruitment and six per cent outflow. "The ...

Article: Leader: Don't ban army from schools
The Scotsman;  May 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ...FOR some time, the British Army has suffered a serious shortfall...the "normal" shortfall in the army establishment rose by more than 300 per cent to 2,000 places. There were...politics of the Iraq war, the army has proved a necessary, dependable...Authorities, who says: "The army is a key ...

Article: One-in-five want to quit the Army; WAR ON TERROR..(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  November 1, 2006 ;     193 words ......are being driven out of the Army by the strain of serving in...MoD survey found. And 38 per cent said they were so overstretched...quizzed 2306 soldiers, 43 per cent of them officers, for the survey...prompting soldiers to leave the Army were overblown. Labour backbencher...The survey also found ...

Article: Drugs, desertion leave Army short of soldiers
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 30, 2008 ;     462 words ...THE ARMY'S most hard-pressed fighting...Telegraph states that 45 per cent of those caught taking drugs in the Army were serving in the infantry and, of those, 75 per cent had been using cocaine or ecstasy...makes up a quarter of the Army. The report states that manning...increasing concern for ...

Article: School leavers fall in at the double for an Army career.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 3, 1999 ;     330 words ......leavers joined the Army in 1998/9 - an increase of 55.7 per cent on the previous year...compared with a 2.8 per cent increase in Coventry...the last year. The Army survey, published...discovering 70 per cent of the Army's 100 trades were...

Article: Army rise in blacks.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  September 4, 2001 ;     86 words ......Asian people are joining the Army, figures out yesterday show...recruits rose from 3.5 per cent to six per cent from April to August. It was two per cent in 1998. The Army is now optimistic that it will reach its five per cent target for enlisting non-whites...Col Wayne Harber said: ...

Article: Israeli army uses spies to check draft exemptions.(FRONT)
The Record (Kitchener, Ontario);  March 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ......conscription, but now the army sees two trends thinning...women, nearly 40 per cent of whom now take...religious option. The army's fightback became...In 1991, 21 per cent of women avoided...grounds, according to army figures; last year the figure was 36 per cent, even though overall ...

Article: US army witnesses highest no of suicides.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  May 30, 2008 ;     242 words ......statistics released by the army In 2006, the number of soldiers...was up by more than 12 per cent the next year which made it 18.8 per 100,000 soldiers. The army had started keeping record...first deployment and 43 per cent took their lives after coming home. Only 7 per cent of soldiers who ...

Article: Women in the army: the vital statistics
The Scotsman;  May 29, 2000 ;     197 words ......in 14 members of the British Army are women, with 7,807 female...109,831. Approximately 30 per cent of army jobs are reserved for men...front line roles to women, the army has lagged behind. While 70 per cent of army posts are open to women, the figure is 73 per cent in the ...

Article: Kosovo boost for army recruiting
The Scotsman;  July 3, 1999 ;     575 words ......campaign in the Balkans, army careers offices dealt with almost 50 per cent more inquiries than...found that 42 per cent believed being a soldier...While serving in the army is still seen as a...questioned, 64 per cent said they believed the army was a predominantly male career, but ...