We all know the statistics and the scares: The left fringe constantly sounds the draft drumbeat, while the Pentagon insists that there will be no such thing, and the recruitment/retention goals are being met or exceeded.
So which side is telling the truth? Durned if I know, but I do have some anecdotal observations to add to the discussion.
When Adam got to Basic at Fort Leonard Wood, his start date was backed up by about 3 weeks because the facilities were overloaded. There were more recruits than the base was prepared to handle.
When he left basic for AIT at Fort Sill, his training start date has once again ben rolled back due to the high numbers of soldiers in the training pipeline. According to him, there are facilities for training about 250 soldiers per class at any give time. Right now, there are almost 500 soldiers in the class.
What does this mean? Let's put it this way; do you need a draft when you have morevolunteers than you can train?
Posted by Rich at October 19, 2006 4:22 PM | TrackBack