An additional security questionnaire has been part of the enlistment process, the officials said.
For the first time since 1997, all four branches of the armed services are expected to meet their enlistment goals this year, officials said today.
But now the two departments have agreed to develop a joint computerized system for health care records that could provide a single source of data on a veteran's health from enlistment through death, officials from the departments said.
The Pentagon is trying to cope with the surge in suicides, but it is holding a bad hand: the desperate shortage of troops has forced military officials to lower the bar for enlistment, thus letting in people whose drug and alcohol abuse or other behavioral problems would previously have kept them out.
In 2010, after the Sacramento Bee first reported corruption in the California Guard enlistment payments, an FBI investigation found that officials had given millions of dollars in bonuses and student loan payments to soldiers who did not qualify for them, or who were approved despite paperwork errors.
Asian enlistment rates have historically been low, and military officials have been trying to raise those numbers.
McLain is one of about 9,800 current and former California Guard soldiers who were ordered to repay enlistment bonuses, tuition assistance or other payments that officials said were improperly awarded when the Defense Department was frantically trying to fill its ranks for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Instead Bruce Bustard, a senior curator at the Archives, searched through Army pension records, soldier enlistment rosters, government correspondence and the country's largest cache of official Confederate papers to escape burning to discover a series of what he called "little-known stories, seldom-seen documents and unusual perspectives".
WASHINGTON, July 23 - The Army's top personnel officer acknowledged this week that the service will probably miss its recruiting goal this year, the first public admission by a senior Army official and a stark reminder of the Iraq war's impact on enlistments.
In 1900 Thomas L. Livermore, who, like Fox, was a private citizen and Union army veteran, put the number of Confederate non-combat deaths at 164,000, using the official estimate of Union deaths from disease and accidents and a comparison of Union and Confederate enlistment records.
