I didn't look at the numbers but I do know that the Navy isn't recruiting because the gov set their rates lower than the rest of the branches. Learned this from a recruiter who sat next to me on a plane to Cleveland. He was headed for Kansas to take up his new post. When he'd mentioned that he'd just become a recruiter I said, "Hmmm. Not a fun time to do that."
He waved his hand and said, "Pshaw. Of all the branches, Navy's easiest because we don't have the crazy recruitment goals."
At 04:22 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:04 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:50 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know why the Navy is so much lower than the other branches.
> >
> > Isn't the Navy the snootiest of the branches?
>
>It is. But maybe Dr Johnson's observation has something
>to do with it too:
>
>"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance
>enough to get himself into a jail; for being
>in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance
>of being drowned. A man in a jail has more
>room, better food, and commonly better company."
>
>
>
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