Re-enlistments outpacing fiscal year mission

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Re-enlistments outpacing fiscal year mission
By Jim Tice - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 29, 2008 5:56:54 EDT

Retention in the active component is thousands of re-enlistments ahead of its goal for the year.

Combined with a strong recruiting year, the retention numbers are rapidly pushing the Army toward its expanded end-strength goal of 547,400 for 2010.

With a month left in the fiscal year, unit commanders and career counselors had re-enlisted 72,083 soldiers.

That total is more than 7,000 re-enlistments above the fiscal year mission of 65,000.

Recruiting figures released in early September show that through August, recruiters had enlisted 71,863 new soldiers, just 8,137 shy of the annual mission of 80,000.


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