The "D"-Word (Part x)

Army Aims to Catch Up on Recruits in Summer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061001897.html
"The Army also moved this month to take a harder look at keeping first-term soldiers in the force who might otherwise have been kicked out for problems such as drug abuse, poor conduct, or for failure to meet fitness or body-fat standards."
Nice. - Vox

Military draft back on US agenda
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3278264
"Joseph Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the prediction after new data released by the Pentagon showed the US Army failing to meet its recruitment targets for four straight months."
"The truth of the matter is, it is going to become a subject, if, in fact, there's a 40 per cent shortfall in recruitment. It's just a reality," he said.""

..."But while admitting that restoring the draft would be politically "very difficult," Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said something would have to be done because the situation with recruitment was not likely to improve."