{"id":1671,"date":"2005-06-05T04:59:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/boosting_recrui\/"},"modified":"2005-06-05T04:59:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-05T08:59:11","slug":"boosting_recrui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/boosting_recrui\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/11782187.htm\">outside-the-box approach<\/a> to address the military&#8217;s recruitment woes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One Wisconsin lawmaker figures if the U.S. military trusts 19-year-olds with a $10 million tank, then the state should trust them with a beer.<br \/>\nState Rep. Mark Pettis, a Republican who served in the Navy, is pushing a bill that would drop the drinking age to 19 for Wisconsin soldiers &#8211; but only if the federal government agrees it will not yank an estimated $50 million a year in highway aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, the recruitment problem isn&#8217;t the stated objective. But I suspect in a number of cases this would be a handy selling point for would-be recruits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/boosting_recrui\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Boosting Recruitment\"><p>Here&#8217;s an outside-the-box approach to address the military&#8217;s recruitment woes: One Wisconsin lawmaker figures if the U.S. military trusts 19-year-olds with a $10 million tank, then the state should trust them with a beer. State Rep. Mark Pettis, a Republican who served in the Navy, is pushing a bill that would drop the drinking age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}