As previously reported, peace-at-any-price partisans pretend our military is close to collapse:
You know all those media reports about military recruiting we've been reading about in recent years? The ones about how our military is struggling to meet its recruiting goals? That often have journalists pushing the idea that our desperate military is resorting to filling its ranks with criminals in order to make its goals? Wondering why you haven’t heard too much about that particular left-wing anti-war talking point for a while?
Partly because it's largely false--all military branches met their active duty targets in FY2006 and, as Say Anything documents, have reached or exceeded their goals each month since. Reenlistments remain strong. Yes, this comes after increasing recruiting and reenlistment bonuses--so what? And studies show that, even without a draft, our soldiers look like us:
U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight differences are that wartime U.S. military enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers.
Recruits have a higher percentage of high school graduates and representation from Southern and rural areas. No evidence indicates exploitation of racial minorities (either by race or by race-weighted ZIP code areas). Finally, the distribution of household income of recruits is noticeably higher than that of the entire youth population.
It's true some reserve components are slightly under strength. But only by a bit; this mostly reflects a desire immediately to enter active service. In any event, the Army National Guard recently met its target.
As usual, don't believe the left-wing hype.
(via Instapundit)
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