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Recruiting Foreigners
USN Takes On The MD Shortage
The American Chaplain Shortage
Iraqi Cops Face Bad Numbers
The Limits of Combat Fatigue
Discipline and Death Rates
Australia and New Incentives
The Cost of Not Being in Iraq
Sand Fleas and the Bleeding Soldiers
Navy Warrant Officer Pilots
Blood Island
What Money Can't Buy
Compared to Vietnam
Sub Specialists Scarce
USAF Breaks Safety Record
The Superhero Shortage
Making the Best of Bad High Schools
Patterns of Death in Iraq
Staffing a 24/7 War
Scarce Skills Score Special Pay
Afghans Who Walk Away
F-18s Wearing Out Ahead of Schedule
Bringing Bad Habits Back Home
Combat Medic Training Center in Iraq
Sailors Reinforce the Army
How the Military Hurts the Poor and Uneducated
Britain Copes With Crucial Shortages
American Sailors Volunteer for Iraq Duty
USAF Seeks Magicians
Bloody October
Canada Recruits Couch Potatoes
Sharing the Pain
Dealing With the Leftovers
Romania Trades Coercion for Quality
The U.S. Air Force Doesn't Want You, or You...
What Will Get You
Migrations In and Out of Iraq Since 2003
Army Referral Bonus Program Expanded
Tribal Tribulations in India
Weight Losses
NATO Keeps Count in Afghanistan
China Purges Psycho Soldiers
USAF Shedding 12 Percent of Personnel
I Thought You Lowered The Landing Gear?
Gurkhas Want to Renegotiate
China Makes Time For Sergeants
Measuring the Impact of Taliban Losses
Changing Ethnic Patterns in the U.S. Army
Patterns in Iraq
Still No Manpower Shortage in the U.S. Army
IRR Has Another Media Misadventure
A Few Good Nukes
We Prefer Illiterates
Jobs and Guns
Russian Conscripts Disappearing Big Time
Marines Running Out of Helicopters
Female Troops and Combat Fatigue
Arab-Americans in Combat
Dead Bodies in Baluchistan
Canada Offers. No Waiting, No Respect
F-15K Pilots Blacked Out and Crashed
Losses in Lebanon
SAS Gets A Raise
U.S. Military Continues to Meet Recruiting Goals
Contractor Casualties in Iraq
JDAM Puts 19,000 Airmen Out of Work
Afghan Mercenaries Earning Their Pay
Venezuela Feels a Draft
What SEALs and Medics are Worth
Basic Training Revolution
U.S. Troops Vote With Their Feet
Ultrasound on the Battlefield
Paratroopers Break Reenlistment Record
Psychological Casualties in the War on Terror
The Mysterious Crash of a Wonder Jet
Replacing Lost SOCOM Aircraft
The Zarqawi Dip
Middle Aged Recruits
Coping With Combat Fatigue
Why Women Replace Men in as Pilots
Patterns in Iraq
The Navy is Auctioning Layoffs
Israel Cracks Down On Female Draft Dodgers
Soldiers Win Their War, No One Cares
Tempting Tuition
Stalking Extreme Sports
The Chronic Indian Officer Shortage
How to Die in the Russian Army
Recruiters as Kidnappers
USAF Even Downsizing Lieutenants
Canada's Shame
Serious Shortage of Successful SEAL Students
The Small Print in Officers Commissions
The Language Bonus
Americans Enlist in Record Numbers
Israeli Army Screens Out Dissidents
The Dark Side of MASH
Looking for More of the EOD Elite
Suicidal Submariners Stimulate a Scare
Growing Casualties in Sri Lanka
After Iraq, Expensive Apache Rebuilds
Marines Stay In For The Action
Why U.S. Troops Re-Enlist in Record Numbers
Hurricane Katrina Armor Losses Continue
Nepalese Maoists Take Heavy Losses
Iraqi Terrorists Suffering a Manpower Shortage
Women's Work in the Pakistani Air Force
The Moslem Girls Go Marching In
Desertion Rate Up in Britain
Appealing Homosexuals
Chinese Army Hammered By Video Pirates
It's The Economy, Stupid
American Reservist Recruiting Recovers
Why So Few Are Eligible For Military Service
The Natural Superiority of Women
The Best Terrorists Money Can Buy
Firing 25 Percent of the Army
Demotion Instead of Dismissal
Old Soldiers Stick Around
Women Join the Nepalese Army
Russia Speeds Elimination of Conscription
Wear and Tear in Iraq
Office Politics in Al Qaeda
China Gets Soldiers Out Of The Kitchen
National Guard Reverses Recruiting Slide
New Approach to Stress in Basic Training
Waiver Troops
More Sailors in Iraq
Iraqi Civilians Suffering Most of the Casualties
The Bloody Past
China Lures Geeks Into Uniform
Casualty Trends in Iraq
Backing Off on Tattoos
Blue to Green Bombs
U.S. Army Recruiting in Europe Improves
Martyr Fodder
The G.I. Bill Factor
The Untold Casualty Story
Faster Promotions For Steadfast G.I.s
Seeing and Believing
Surprising Sailor Shortage in South Africa
Taiwan Recruits Women
Six Figure Soldiers
British Infantry Fading Away
More Women in Uniform Worldwide
War Losses
Cheap Simulators Threaten U.S. Air Superiority
The True Cause of Death in Congo
Making the Naval Reserve Work
Why More Wounded Survive
Keeping the Commandoes In Uniform
USAF Downsizing
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