This TIME article looks at a string of suicides among Army recruiters (most of whom are veterans of OIF/OEF) who face unrelenting recruitment quotas that are increasingly hard to meet as potential enlistees become more weary of military service with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq appearing to have no end in sight.
from the we'll-do-anything-but-fix-the-underlying-problems dept.
The AP is reporting that the DoD is now recruiting foreign citizens to become medical officers:
WASHINGTON – Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the United States on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status.
Andy Baldwin from the Bachelor recently visited the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth to recruit for Navy Medicine. His presentation was posted on the university's news release and attached below. Let's take a look at some selected slides:
Does anyone know how the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will affect prior service officers on HPSP? The way I read it, it appears that I would receive my base pay during my entire medical school. It's less than USUHS, because I wouldn't get BAH, or BAS. Someone said it's only for the 45 days actice duty a year, but I can't find that in the language of the law for title 10 US code:
SEC. 524. TREATMENT OF PRIOR ACTIVE SERVICE OF MEMBERS IN UNIFORMED MEDICAL ACCESSION PROGRAMS.
(c) Persons participating in the program shall be commissioned officers in reserve components of the armed forces...They shall be detailed as students at accredited civilian institutions, located in the United States or Puerto Rico, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge or training in a designated health profession...
