8 April 2015

New personnel rules: Carter's plans to keep best troops

By Andrew Tilghman
April 6, 2015 

He's worried about recruiting and retaining a high-skilled force when the economy is improving. He is worried the military will be unable to compete with corporate America for the best and brightest young people.

He's worried that military life will be unattractive to the young cohort known as millennials, including some who were in kindergarten on Sept. 11, 2001, and can't remember precisely where they were that morning.

"As the so-called 9/11 generation begins to leave our ranks, the Defense Department must continue to bring in talented Americans, from your generation and others," Carter told students on a recent trip to his alma mater, Abington Senior High School in suburban Philadelphia.

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