US Army recuitment officers work 80 hour weeks.
The military is not meeting it’s goals.
This is an interesting piece, what caught my attention was the long work week for this stateside job. That’s a long week and a lot of stress.
The number of incidents where recruiters went too far are being addressed.

Army Recruiting Command spokesman Douglas Smith said as of April 29, the Army had fielded 480 allegations of improper conduct by recruiters in fiscal 2005 beginning Oct. 1. So far, there have been 91 substantiated improprieties, with eight recruiters relieved and 98 recruiters admonished, Smith said.

Would one of my US friends correct me if I’m wrong.
Each branch of the military- Army, Navy, Air Force - recruits for their branch and for their reserves.
So that means there are a lot of recruiters that may not be meeting the goals set for them, which raises the potential for abuse. Or a draft.

According to this report the US military is deployed in 130 of the world’s 191 countries. If this is correct there are 350 thousand military personnel from all branches currently overseas.

There are 7, 545 Army recruiters. I couldn’t find the number of recruitment officers for the Navy and the Air Force.

Any person of military age has quick access to sites such as this.

Many may know a friend or family member that has died in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Or a friend or family member who has been wounded.

MilBlogs
USA Today looks at the growth of military blogs - milblogs.

And the blogs are “full of real substance and depth,” says Jon Peede, director of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Operation Homecoming program, which helps troops and their families write about their wartime experiences. “They’re raw, powerful reflections on the war.”

They also could be among a troop’s last words. At least one “soldier blogger,” Army Spc. Francisco G. Martinez, has been killed in action.

It is estimated that there are about 200 milblogs, but it isn’t fully known. About 20 percent of blogs overall are private, open only to family and friends.
The US military has to be monitoring and military personnel have to toe the line and be careful about security. It’s impossible to know how many blogs are propaganda.
Many military who have rotated home are blogging.
Some make for powerful reading.