Be All That You Can Be. George Steinbrenner? Posted by Heather Hurlburt

Looks like the newly-announced National Guard deployment to Iraq will be the occasion for a new wave of "broken Army" stories, of which Time's cover story is the first but unlikely to be the last.

The new angle here I caught was some internal Army recruitment memos which highlight 1) how hard they must scramble for recruits and 2) how looseness with the truth at the top trickles down over the years into the work of folks like recruiters who are not exactly political appointees.

The documents show Army officers straining to justify new, more expensive inducements for recruits, including comparing Army relocation policies to those employed by Princeton.  But here's my personal favorite:

The service paid more than $600 million in retention bonuses in 2006, up from $180 million in 2003. (If that seems excessive, the Army notes in an internal document, "New York Yankees payroll: About $350 million," although it's actually closer to $190 million.)

Now I'm a Red Sox fan by upbringing and a Tigers fan by residence, but even discounting for that:  a) what an irrelevant comparison and b) if it's not irrelevant, it's bad.  The last time that payroll produced a World Series title was, ahem, 2000, and they haven't even been to the Series since President Bush's first term. 

And who ought to need a bigger retention bonus to keep doing what he's doing:  someone on his third or fourth tour in Iraq, or Derek Jeter?   

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