The bad news on Wall Street is good news for military recruiting and retention, the Pentagon’s top personnel official said Oct. 10. “We do benefit when things look less positive in civil society,” said David S.C. Chu, undersecretary of defense...

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The Pentagon says it met its goals for 2008, and expects the bad economy to increase enlistment further. The economic downturn could make it easier to attract new recruits to the military, Defense officials said Friday as they announced that...
Carrying the weight of the war in Iraq, the Army said Friday it had nonetheless made its recruiting goal for the past year and had kept more than enough veteran soldiers in uniform. The Army exceeded its goal of 80,000 recruits by more than 500...