Arkansas National Guard Bests Recruit Goals
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Updated: April 17, 2007
According to recruitment goals given to the Regional News Service by the Guard, Arkansas had a goal of just over 14-hundred new enlistments for 2006, but added just over 17-hundred soldiers to the Army National Guard and 192 to the Air National Guard.
Overall the National Guard recruited 19-thousand more Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen in 2006 than it did during the previous year.
LTG H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau says the National Guard continues to demonstrate its ability to recruit and retain a quality force despite the demands of simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as unprecedented missions at home such as support for border security and response to natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires.
2006 reflects the best recruiting and retention year since Blum became the Guard Bureau`s chief in April 2003, when the force had fallen short of its recruiting goals by 20 percent.
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