Deep into the United States Marine Corps recruit camp, where recruits need to fight with challenges and. General Hagee said the military had an all-out effort under way to combat the remotely detonated roadside bombs that are the No. U.S.M.C.: The Few The Proud: Directed by Xiaoya Ma. In a wide-ranging breakfast interview with reporters, General Hagee touched on several issues regarding Iraq that military specialists say contribute to the climate of concern among potential recruits and their parents. The Marines' decision to strengthen recruiting comes as the Army has added hundreds of new recruiters and is pushing incoming recruits into training as fast as possible. General Hagee said the initial wave of bonuses had increased re-enlistment rates among infantry units, but Marine officials said they did not have specific figures readily available. "That's what we're using over there on the ground." "We need infantrymen," General Hagee said, explaining the shift in bonus priorities.
About 75 percent of enlisted marines leave the service after their first tour, requiring a steady stream of recruits moving through training centers in San Diego and Parris Island, S.C. What is unusual about these incentives is that the Marines Corps for the first time is offering re-enlistment bonuses, averaging $20,000, to its most junior infantrymen, rather than relying mainly on inexperienced troops fresh from boot camp to replenish the infantry. "Now we need to get back up to where we need to be." Major Griesmer said the Marines would add nearly 250 recruiters between now and October 2006. Griesmer, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command. "The recruiting force atrophied," said Maj. They're saying, 'It's not maybe a bad idea to join the Marine Corps, but why don't you consider it a year from now, or two years from now let's think about this."'Īt issue is the Marines' decision to rebuild its recruiting ranks, which had fallen recently to 2,410 full-time recruiters from 2,650 before the Iraq war, as commanders siphoned off marines who had been scheduled for recruiting duty to perform combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2007, it was added to the Advertising Walk of Fame on Madison Avenue in New York. "Parents have influence, and rightly so, on the decision these young men and young women are going to make. The Marines' appears on many lists of advertising's top slogans. "What the recruiters are telling us is that they have to spend more time with the parents," General Hagee said. But General Hagee indicated that recruiters were facing some of toughest conditions they have ever faced, starting in the homes of their prized recruits. Hagee, the Marine Corps commandant, predicted on Thursday that the Marines would achieve their overall recruiting goal for this fiscal year, even after the service missed its monthly quota in January, the first such lapse in nearly a decade.