> 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."
They're trying to herd navy and air force people into army roles, and call it "blue to green". They also have sailors, not marines, running around in camo with M16s....
Heh, they even call it downsizing:
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 25, 2007) - The Army's "Blue to Green" program, designed to allow airmen, sailors and Marines affected by force shaping to move to the Army, recently hit a milestone, a Defense Department official said here yesterday.
"Just in the past couple of weeks we've had our 1,000th transfer," Bill Carr, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy, said in an interview.
An effect of the Air Force and Navy downsizing is fewer opportunities for airmen, sailors and Marines to continue in their career fields, he said. The Army's Blue to Green interservice transfer program, open to officers and enlisted personnel, affords an alternative to leaving military service. [...]
-- Andy