Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness David S.C. Chu Holds a Defense Department News Briefing On Recruiting and Retention in the Military Services
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Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness David S.C. Chu Holds a Defense Department News Briefing On Recruiting and Retention in the Military Services
UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHU HOLDS A DEFENSE DEPARTMENT NEWS BRIEFING ON RECRUITING AND RETENTION IN THE MILITARY SERVICES
OCTOBER 10, 2008SPEAKERS: UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PERSONNEL AND READINESS DAVID S.C. CHUGEOFF MORRELL, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT PRESS SECRETARYDEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS BRYAN WHITMANDEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DEFENSE PRESS OPERATIONS JIM TURNERCOLONEL GARY KECK (USA), DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRESS OFFICEBRIGADIER GENERAL ANTHONY CUCOLO III (USA), CHIEF OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, UNITED STATES ARMY[*] WHITMAN: Well, good morning. And thank you for joining us. As I have been promising you for some time, we do have with us today Dr. David Chu, who's the undersecretary of defense for personnel readiness, to talk to you about the past year in recruiting and retention. He's joined today by several individuals from the military departments. With him, he has Major General Thomas Bostick, the commanding general of Army Recruiting Command; from the Navy, Rear Admiral Joseph Kilkenny, commander of Navy Recruiting Command; from the Air Force, Brigadier General Alfred Stewart, commander, Air Force Recruiting Command; and somebody that you all in here know, Major General Select Robert Milstead, commanding general, Marine Corps Recruiting Command, and former chief of Marine Corps Public Affairs.Dr. Chu is going to kind of give you an overview of the year and some of the services who will also then speak to you and then take your questions on this year's recruiting and retention efforts.So, Dr. Chu, again, thank you very much for joining us today and bringing your colleagues.CHU: Well, I thank you. It is a privilege to be here this morning and to share with you the recruiting and retention results for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2008, just concluded. And I am privileged to have the four service recruiting chiefs with me, as well as Dr. Kirk Gilroy (ph), who heads the Acquisition Policy Office in my enterprise.I hope you have our press release, which has the basic numbers in it. I believe we've also sent to you a small booklet that contains additional background information on our recruiting-retention results and on the volunteer force at large.People are -- as you appreciate, are the heart of any organization, and especially so in a military organization. As is true in any open society, particularly for any organization that uses a large number of younger individuals in its ranks, we are a relatively hi...See the full content of this document
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