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Pentagon Wants Old Meat for the Iraq War Grinder
by URI DOWBENKO
The Pentagon wants Congress to raise the age ceiling to 42 for all branches of the US armed forces, since the Army, Army Reserve and Army National Guard have all fallen short of their recruitment goals war on Iraq.
Pentagon officials euphemistically call this request "urgent wartime support initiatives," i.e., we need more cannon fodder (even if it's old meat).
At a hearing on July 19, Under Secretary of Defense David S.C. Chu noted that the Pentagon's inability to find new 20-something recruits forced them to find additional incentives, like lowering the bar to include clueless 40-somethings.
Other "incentives" for military recruitment have included cash bribes like "raising the maximum re-enlistment bonus to $90,000; maximum hardship duty pay to $750 a month; special pay and incentive bonuses for nuclear qualified officers to $30,000; assignment incentive pay to $3,000; and increasing accession and affiliation bonuses for reservists," reports Army Times.
by URI DOWBENKO
Pentagon officials euphemistically call this request "urgent wartime support initiatives," i.e., we need more cannon fodder (even if it's old meat).
At a hearing on July 19, Under Secretary of Defense David S.C. Chu noted that the Pentagon's inability to find new 20-something recruits forced them to find additional incentives, like lowering the bar to include clueless 40-somethings.
Other "incentives" for military recruitment have included cash bribes like "raising the maximum re-enlistment bonus to $90,000; maximum hardship duty pay to $750 a month; special pay and incentive bonuses for nuclear qualified officers to $30,000; assignment incentive pay to $3,000; and increasing accession and affiliation bonuses for reservists," reports Army Times.
