After delaying the release of recruiting data this month, the Army has finally released numbers showing that it missed its May recruiting goal. The Army missed its recruiting goal even after reducing their goal by 25%. Had the Army not changed their May goal from 8,050 recruits to 6,700, the Army would have missed its goal by 37%.
The military has faced an ongoing recruiting crisis with both recruiter misconduct and a growing citizen movement against military recruiting. Over the past few months, allegations of recruiters faking documents have been made, as have recent accusations of sexual misconduct. Moreover, activists opposed to the Iraq war have in many cases adjusted their tactics to focus on military recruiting, while parents are working to keep military recruiters out of schools and have become one of the military's major obstacles to meeting recruiting goals. Some teachers have also prepared lesson plans on military recruiting by having students analyze actual military recruitment forms.
