Army Recruiting - Bad and getting worse

Despite the president's call-to-arms this week, the AP reports that the Army's recruiting problems are not about to get better anytime soon.

"We've got enormous challenges," Gen. Peter Schoomaker told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In written testimony, he said the Army's goal of 80,000 recruits this year "is at serious risk," and recruiting woes will stretch "well into the future." Next year, he wrote, "may be the toughest recruiting environment ever."

"Enormous challenges?"

I'd say it really boils down to just one: nobody wants to go and get killed in Iraq.