{"id":2267,"date":"2008-01-22T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-recruiting-under-diploma-soldiers\/2267\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T17:44:10","slug":"us-recruiting-under-diploma-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-recruiting-under-diploma-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"US recruiting under diploma soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>Afghan military operations and the Iraqi war have forced the US army to recruit soldiers without high school diplomas to fill its ranks. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Priorities Project, a research group that analyzes federal data, found that the percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CBS News, in a report released Tuesday the research group said that nearly 71 percent of Army recruits graduated from high school in the 2007 budget year.<\/p>\n<p>All troops must have a high school diploma or an equivalent degree. The military prefers that they have a high school diploma because its studies have shown they are more likely to finish an enlistment term.<\/p>\n<p>The Army&#8217;s goal is 90 percent high school graduates, which it hasn&#8217;t met since 2004. Each year since, the number of recruits with at least a high school diploma has steadily declined.<\/p>\n<p>The Army has been under growing pressure to strengthen recruiting as part of an ongoing effort to increase its size.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=39861&amp;sectionid=3510203\">RB\/RA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan military operations and the Iraqi war have forced the US army to recruit soldiers without high school diplomas to fill its ranks. National Priorities Project, a research group that analyzes federal data, found that the percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year. According to the CBS News, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59],"class_list":{"0":"post-2267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-military"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}