(Amerika) Streitkräfte der USA - allg. Sammelthread

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U.S. Army Waiting List Near Record Levels With High Unemployment, GI Bill

Young Americans looking to join the armed forces may have to wait to serve.

The combination of lower recruitment target numbers, a weak economy and the implementation of the GI bill has made waiting lists, officially known as the Delayed Entry Pool, longer than they have been in recent years.

The Marine Corps, which has traditionally had a smaller recruiting base, has fulfilled more than 65 percent of its target for fiscal year 2011. The Army entered the new recruiting year in October having fulfilled 50 percent, or half its targeting goals for next year.

The number is a near record for the Army. The last time in recent decades the waiting list was so long was 1996, when the Delayed Entry Pool was at 42.9 percent at the start of the fiscal year.

In recent years, the Army lowered standards to boost recruitment, including allowing those with low test scores and even criminal records to join. But after years of such incentives and hefty bonuses, recruitment interest has not only surged but the quality of Americans who have expressed interest has improved considerably...........

Na ja damit hat sich das Problem mit den Mangel an Rekruten erledigt.



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U.S. Navy Awards LCS Contracts to Lockheed and Austal


The Navy wasted little time in taking advantage of congressional support for the service’s dual-block-buy plan for its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), awarding fixed-price-incentive contracts tonight to both Lockheed Martin and Austal USA for the design and construction of a 10 ship block-buy each.

The total deal could reach 20 LCS for about $7 billion from Fiscal 2010 - which ended Sept. 30, technically - through Fiscal 2015. The value of the ship-construction portion of the two contracts — when all 10 ships of each block buy are awarded – is expected to be $3.6 billion for Lockheed and $3.5 billion for Austal.

The Lockheed contract is initially worth about $436.9 million and Austal’s deal is about $432 million, according to the Navy. Both contracts include line items for nine additional ships per contractor, subject to congressional appropriations toward the Pentagon’s annual LCS requests in coming years.......

LCS wird nun doch in beiden Ausführungen gekauft. :twisted: