Army waves magic wand, meets recruitment goals

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  1. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3537032

    See how wrong you are, lefty liberal moonbats?

    (um...anyone suspect a little creative accounting going on here?)
     
  2. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
    Montgomery Vlg, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Sounds like they lowered the recruiting goals.
     
  3. Chris M.

    Chris M. Member+

    Jan 18, 2002
    Chicago
    Maybe they included the 160,000 ;) trained Iraqi security forces.
     
  4. christopher d

    christopher d New Member

    Jun 11, 2002
    Weehawken, NJ
    The military is so cool. Working on the last big defense project I was on, every time there was a deadline that was going to be missed, the status reports would be yellow for weeks. Then a conference call would happen, deciding that the original deadline was unable to be reached. A new deadline would be set, and the status reports go to green. Un-********ing-believable. Yet they have scores of project managers employed just to sit on these conference calls that everyone knows are coming, and move due dates two months to the right or (in this case) "re-adjust goals".

    Good thing they're charged with defending big business rather than mimicing big business. :rolleyes:
     
  5. IntheNet

    IntheNet New Member

    Nov 5, 2002
    Northern Virginia
    Club:
    Blackburn Rovers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No, but perhaps a few liberals finally decided to accept the truth and don a uniform on behalf of their nation!
     
  6. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    N'ah. i'm gonna go with the creative accounting theory. But you are free to think what you like.

    Seems they finally found a number they could creatively account low enough so as to be impossible to miss.

    Any guesses?
     
  7. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    That Number is restricted information. Releasing it would give aid and comfort to the enemy
     
  8. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Of course.
     
  9. Karl K

    Karl K Member

    Oct 25, 1999
    Suburban Chicago
    Fess up, lefty moonbats.

    You LOVE to be cynical...cynicism is the breath of intellectual life to you, isn't it?

    If you have a choice between accepting what is said at face value, and assuming the crassest and most venal motives, you will always..and I mean ALWAYS opt for believing and thinking the worst, right?

    Tell me, doesn't it wear thin after a while? Isn't getting out of bed in the morning such pure mental torture, knowing that, once again, there will be this piece of news, or that event, that, for the umpteenth time, confirms your worst fears about....about...well, anything and everything?

    Man, it's just gotta suck to be you.
     
  10. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
    1301 miles de Texas
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    High school graduation.
     
  11. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    Dang, should have thought of that. Good call.
     
  12. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    You tell us. How long did it take to get over Vincent Foster's murder?
     
  13. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    Wouldn't that kinda already have been planned for?

    Of course loads of ex-high school kids are not available to join...but wouldn't you expect that the targets for June/July already be much larger than the targets for other months?
     
  14. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Don't waste your breath, man. We were having a good thread before he showed up. Just ignore.
     
  15. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    It would seem natural to plan for it annually. That doesn't mean that they won't mention it in an attempt to hoodwink us.
     
  16. skipshady

    skipshady New Member

    Apr 26, 2001
    Orchard St, NYC
    You'd think so, but then you would be thinking.
     
  17. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
    1301 miles de Texas
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Bush ruined the economy and these poor little bastards can't find jobs cause they cant speak spanish. What else they going to do?
     
  18. christopher d

    christopher d New Member

    Jun 11, 2002
    Weehawken, NJ
    Sure, and I'd feel really bad about it right now that you pointed it out if moving the target to find the arrow wasn't a standard ********ing operating procedure that I've seen with my own four eyes like I just posted.

    Nah, I probably wouldn't feel bad even then.
     
  19. Sine Pari

    Sine Pari Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    NUNYA, BIZ
    Summer months are usually the best for recruiters

    Or maybe folks just got that higher calling


    ;)
     
  20. verybdog

    verybdog New Member

    Jun 29, 2001
    Houyhnhnms
    More money too. 40,000 dollars?
     
  21. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    They've found Jesus?
     
  22. Sine Pari

    Sine Pari Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    NUNYA, BIZ
    I assume you mean enlistment bonuses ?

     
  23. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    But but but...

    Sorry. those 2 explanations don't hold.

    Perhaps...
    Perhaps patriotic college republicans gathered at their convention, played the George Bush television appearance drinking game, went on the bender to end all benders, and woke up with "Property of the US Army" tattoo'd on their butts?
     
  24. Sine Pari

    Sine Pari Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    NUNYA, BIZ

    Yup

    After all this time we can finally reveal he lives at Ft Bragg
     
  25. skipshady

    skipshady New Member

    Apr 26, 2001
    Orchard St, NYC
    Downtown Fayetteville is just heavenly.
     

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