The Army has not missed its annual enlistment quota since 1999, when a strong economy played havoc with recruiters' efforts.
Gen. Michael D. Rochelle, the commander of Army recruiting, has expressed cautious optimism in recent weeks that the active-duty Army could still eke out its annual enlistment goal, especially with 1,200 additional recruiters on the street for the peak summer months.
In subsection (a), the words "who extends his enlistment" are substituted for the words "While serving under an enlistment extended".
The regiment soon disbanded after its three-month term of enlistment expired.
If the military does not calibrate its message to such communities, enlistment rates among Asian-Americans will likely drop.
Overwhelmed by the demands in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has all but used up its emergency recruiting measures: higher enlistment bonuses, more expensive marketing campaigns, even home loans for some recruits.
Moreover, a month after its arrival, the unit lost almost half of its troop strength because the three-year enlistment periods of those men who had joined the regiment during its organization in mid-1776 had terminated.
In an interview on Wednesday, Lt. Gen. Franklin L. Hagenbeck, the Army's top personnel officer, said the Army would use incentives like bonuses, educational benefits and choice base assignments to meet its recruiting and re-enlistment goals next year, as it has in almost every year when it started with so few advance recruits.
Another special case was Britain, which continued its peacetime conscription until 1960, when it was replaced by voluntary enlistment and the idea of a mass army was virtually abandoned.
The Army, struggling to meet its recruiting goals, granted him an enlistment waiver for the crime and soon swore him in.
