[Felix The Assassin]

Well now, in news that is not released to the press, things appear different from this side of the fence.

It all started about two months ago. The big people with influential powers were asking our guys, (school house) how they could better assist, yada, yada. Well it's no secret there is a war going on and soldiers assigned here as instructors are getting to become farther and fewer between, placing an ever increasing load on us, the contract instructors. Well, not to big of a deal, but if I wanted to maintain 60 hour work weeks I would have *NOT* retired! Anyhow, our military boss said we need more soldiers.

So, low and behold, we go from 52% strength of soldiers to 100% in a matter of 72 days. Now, one must consider these guys are *NOT* seasoned, trained, or have been through *ALL* of the courses one needs to complete prior to instructing at the "School House" level. But, we *ARE* at 100% none the less!
Yesterday at lunch one of these new guys received an "A-Gram" 'Official Army E-mail', calling him back to 'recruiter duty'. Reporting to location "X" at government expense NLT: 28 1200hrs. Jul 07. Additionally, his message also contained a mission ratio! By COB yesterday, our higher headquarters had requested all prior detailed recruiters to report to their location for follow -up briefings. As of this morning all five of our previous detailed recruiters had been called back to duty. So, it becomes clear as mud why we went from 52% to 100% strength. As of next Monday morning, we will return to 57% strength through 15 OCT 2007.

What does all this mean? It becomes clear the Army is behind, and *may* miss the recruiting mark for fiscal year if something drastic does not happen soon, fast, and with perseverance. All of our guys were released from detail over five years ago, when they were; *Young, Energetic, and Concerned* about making mission. Now they are mid-late career, 4 over 15yrs, 1 at 19, and the youngster at 11, all have been deployed at least twice in the last four years, and have 96 hours to prepare their families for them to depart non-return for 60 plus days. Notice deployments are usually planned several months in advance, No-notice exercises usually give the soldier 5 working days to tie up loose ends, how can recruiting command have so much power? Yes, that really means these five guys will depart Saturday morning going back out on recruiter detail until mid-October!

If you know anybody interested in joining the United States Army, contact me via PM, and I will assist them with help in achieving contact with one of these five fellow instructors, soon to be re-detailed recruiters.