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2010-03-04 Afghanistan

Reluctant Pashtuns hamper Afghan recruitment drive

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Posted by phil_b 2010-03-04 02:54|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 State Department scrambling to get as many bodies in uniform (especially from the South, diversity you know) so they can leave on schedule. Since they can hardly train their own people they are having fits and the buck is being passed onto the DOD (just in case the DOD doesn't have anything else to do).

Posted by tipover 2010-03-04 13:07|| 2010-03-04 13:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Caldwell needs to talk to his training staff. They seem fairly happy with the turnover rate.

"The attrition is sitting at 67.9 percent right now. You probably are going, well, how do you know it's 67.9 percent? Because we track it every day. We have a band between 60 and 70 percent. If they hit within that band we're in pretty good shape."

The Army has quotas for the various ethnics.

44% Pashtun
25% Tajik
10% Hazara
8% Uzbek

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2010-03-04 21:45|| http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2735397/the_growing_afghan_national_army_staffing.html 2010-03-04 21:45|| Front Page Top

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