Houston Chronicle November 2, 2007Military Pressure To Recruit Is Strong
Some creative methods devised to achieve quotas
By Dane Schiller, Houston Chronicle
Passing out gimme caps, pounding sweltering Wal-Mart parking lots, even stuffing business cards into the pockets of new jeans still on the racks at stores, there is no doubt military recruiters get creative to carry out one of the national defense's most challenging missions: finding new enlistees.
"You had to do what you had to do," recalled Paul Johnson, who said that for three years he was a Navy recruiter in Alvin. "Did it result in stuff? I got a couple of calls."
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