military numbers

last year, the news media began to headline military recruitment problems, continuing the story for several months.
at the same time, the news media largely overlooked-ignored equally important personnel numbers which were still solid (even for units seeing combat), despite open hostility in liberal bastions such as university campuses, san francisco...
and apparantly the news media...

finally, the MSM gets wind of improved numbers [bugmenot login]

The Army Guard said Friday that it signed up more than 26,000 soldiers in the first five months of fiscal 2006, exceeding its target by 7 percent in its best performance in 13 years.

of course, the article alternates between 'good news' and 'bad news' and picks up the trend several months late

¶ - nitish @ 10:08 AM