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The Defense Department has agreed to change a military-recruitment database to better protect the privacy of millions of high school students nationwide, a civil liberties group announced Tuesday.
The U.S. military has been struggling to meet its goals. Now a GAO report finds an increase in wrongdoing among recruiters from 2004 to 2005. "Determined to find ways to succeed in a challenging recruiting environment," the report says, "some recruiters reportedly have resorted to overly aggressive tactics, such as coercion and harassment."
In response, the Defense Department agreed that even one incident of recruiter wrongdoing can erode public confidence in DOD's recruiting process
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced yesterday that he is asking Congress to expand the active armed forces by 92,000 members to meet the demands of what the administration says will be a "long war" against terrorism.
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