In trying to understand why the Army recently sent four of its top recruiting personnel to speak to the San Diego school board (http://www.sandi.net/board/reports/2009/0113/video.html), we discovered the following information (data source: the National Priorities Project):
Army enlistments in San Diego County have steadily gone DOWN over the last five years, even though the overall recruitment success rate for the Army has gone up slightly since 2004.
2005 was the year when the Army missed its total national recruiting goal by about 15% (it missed it by an even larger percent in SD County). Ever since then, because of lowered standards and increased enlistment bonuses, the Army has met it's national recruiting goals. However, not in San Diego County, where the Army recruited almost 200 fewer people in 2008 than it recruited in that disastrous year of 2005! (See tables below.) The rate of enlistments per 1000 15-to-20-year-olds has also gone down locally.
It's hard to identify with certainty all the possible causes of this, but one thing we've had here that doesn't exist in most places is a collective effort by counter-recruiters to reach and educate thousands of youths and parents each year. It seems highly likely that this has contributed to the poor recruiting trend in our county.
Rick Jahnkow
Program Coordinator
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
760-634-3604
Total Active-Duty Army Recruits
in San Diego County, CA
for Years 2004 to 2008
| San Diego County, CA | |
| Years | Total Active-Duty Army Recruits |
| 2004 | 736 |
| 2005 | 654 |
| 2006 | 526 |
| 2007 | 497 |
| 2008 | 484 |
Army Active-Duty: Total Recruits per 1000 15 to 24 Year Olds
in San Diego County, CA
for Years 2004 to 2008
| San Diego County, CA | |
| Years | Army Active-Duty: Total Recruits per 1000 15 to 24 Year Olds |
| 2004 | 1.7 |
| 2005 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 1.0 |
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