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Originally Posted by New User
I saw him on Meet The Press this morning, Russert said volunteer enlistment was only 75% of the set quotas in ALL branches (for the first time in years they were not above 100%) and the CJF said he was correct.
I may be mistaken, I'm just going by memory, but I thought he said all branches.
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Well one of us is mistaken as I too saw the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on Tim Russert's show this morning. I understood him to say that all active duty branches and the National Guard (barely with the National Guard) were meeting their quotas but the Reserve was not. I thought I also understood him to say that they were also growing the end force levels of the Army without any enlistment problems at this point.
Did you understand him to say that they were going to raise...or have raised the enlistment age for the Reserves from 34 to 40?