Army of More Than One. (Data).After the September 11 attacks September 11 attacks Series of airline hijackings and suicide bombings against U.S. targets perpetrated by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. , rocker-actress Courtney Love Courtney Love Cobain[1] (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole, and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana inquired about joining the Marines, according to The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Observer. She wasn't alone. U.S. military officials report a doubling of recruiting contacts since September 11, including inquiries by e-mail, the Web, and phone, as well as walk-ins. On college campuses, long-declining ROTC programs are gaining popularity, reports The Boston Globe. It's too early to tell if any of those hitting Web sites will ever hit basic training, or even visit recruitment centers, some of which report no increased interest. Recruiters report that many who inquire, like the 37-year-old Love, are too old to enlist. Criminal records or poor test scores may disqualify To deprive of eligibility or render unfit; to disable or incapacitate. To be disqualified is to be stripped of legal capacity. A wife would be disqualified as a juror in her husband's trial for murder due to the nature of their relationship. others. And those eager to take a shot at trimming Osama bin Laden's beard maybe discouraged by the year it takes to get trained and deployed in today's high Today's High The intra-day high trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the highest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is higher than the closing price. See also: Today's Low tech military. For now, at least, military brass are not worried. By September 30, the armed forces--reputed in some quarters to be atrophying--had already achieved recruiting and retention goals for fiscal year 2001, a goal it's met in all but two of the past 13 years. [Graph omitted] |
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