Navy exceeds ’08 enlistment goal

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Navy exceeds ’08 enlistment goal
By Lisa M. Novak, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Navy exceeded its overall re-enlistment goal for fiscal 2008, but not by much.

A Navy administrative message released last week detailed the categories in which the Navy met its goals and those where the service fell short.

For sailors with six years’ service or less, and sailors with six to 10 years’ service, re-enlistments surpassed the Navy’s goals by about 2 percent. For those with 10 to 14 years of service, however, the Navy missed its retention goal by about 2 percent. Actual re-enlistment figures were not included in the message.

One contributing factor for retention was fewer sailors getting kicked out of the service due to physical fitness failures, substance abuse or medical disability, according to the Navy message.

Looking ahead to fiscal 2009, the Navy raised retention goals in all categories, hoping to achieve 54 percent retention for those with 6 years or less, 63 percent for those with 6 to 10 years and 81 percent for those with 10 to 14 years of service.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?article=59316

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1. The article is about re-enlistment or retention.

But the headline is about recruiting. It is two different animals. The Stars and Stripes should know better.