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Army Announces Retention, Recruiting Numbers for FY 2006
Retention
The Army announced that the active-duty Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve exceeded Fiscal Year 2006 retention goals for the year.
• The active-duty Army closed the fiscal year at 105 percent
of its retention mission. The goal was to re-enlist 64,200 Soldiers and
67,410 Soldiers actually reenlisted.
• The Army Reserve closed out fiscal year 2006 at 103 percent of its
retention mission, with 18,243 Soldiers reenlisting. The goal was to retain
17,712 Soldiers.
• The Army National Guard finished 2006 at 118 percent. The Guard
reenlisted 41,152 Soldiers, surpassing its goal by 6,277.
Recruitment
More than 175,000 qualified men and women have answered the Call to Duty and enlisted in the Army in FY06, 32,000 more than FY 05.
• The active Army recruited 80,635 active Soldiers—101%
of the 80,000 mission.
o Most enlistees since 1997.
o This exceeds the FY05 accomplishment (73,373) by 7K
o FY07 mission is again 80,000
• USAREC recruited 25,378 Army Reserve Soldiers—99.5%
of 25,500 mission.
o This exceeded the FY05 accomplishment (19,400) by almost 6K.
o USAREC also recruited more than 300 Interpreter/Translators (09L), native
heritage speakers into the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) that did not count
toward their 25,500 USAR mission.
o FY07 mission is 26,500, 1K larger than this year
• The Army National Guard recruited 69,042 Soldiers—98.6%
of 70,000 mission
o Most enlistees since 1992
o Exceeds the FY05 accomplishment (50,219) by 18.8K
o FY07 mission is again 70,000
Active End Strength of approx 505,000 is up 12K from FY05 ES of 492,728,
the highest endstrength since 1995. Reserve End Strength of approx 190,000
is 1K more than the FY05 endstrength of 189,005. Army National Guard End
Strength of approx 346,000 is up 13K from FY05 endstrength of 333,177, the
highest endstrength since Dec. 2003.
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