Promises

In order to meet recruitment levels in a disastrous recruitment period, where recruiters have become more aggressive and vicious than is acceptable, they've decided to offer "shorter duration terms of service:"

The minimum period a recruit can usually enlist for is four years. But in an attempt to help recruiters meet their quotas, the army has announced the 15-month active service programme will be launched nationwide.

The recruiters have been struggling to meet targets as the Iraq war continues with ever-rising US casualties. Chief of army recruiting Maj Gen Michael Rochelle admitted the military was encountering the "toughest recruiting climate we've ever faced in the all-volunteer army".

The army managed only 68% of its target in March and 73% in February, and provisional figures for April also showed a shortfall, a Pentagon spokesman said.

The last time a monthly quota was missed was in May 2000. Under the 15-month plan, which was previously run as a pilot scheme in a few recruiting stations, enlistees will continue to be able to sign up for an eight-year commitment.

But after training, they will be able to serve for as little as 15 months on active duty followed by two years in the National Guard or Army Reserve.

Does anybody believe this, considering the difficulties of the war and the lies they've already used to even maintain levels during the war as recruits end their term of active duty service? Come on...