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More Signs of the Strains on the U.S. Military

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The U.S. Army, stung by recruiting shortfalls caused by the Iraq war, has raised the maximum age for new recruits for the part-time Army Reserve and National Guard by five years to 39, officials said on Monday.

The Army said the move, a three-year experiment, will add about 22 million people to the pool of those eligible to serve, from about 60 million now. Physical standards will not be relaxed for older recruits, who the Army said were valued for their maturity and patriotism.

This does provide some fine, new opportunities for some of the blathering blogospheric war mongers to put up or shut up (though I fear they won’t do either).

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