Enough so that the Army, despite initial projections of a shortfall, expects to have met its recruiting goals when figures are available for the fiscal year that ended September 30. Last year, the Army fell 6,300 short of its recruiting goal, Shepherd says. Other reports, including those of CNN correspondents, have placed the shortfall at more than 7,000 recruits. Amid an aggressive public-relations campaign, there's been a dramatic upturn in the number of people inquiring about careers in the Army. Unhappiness does not arise from the way things are but rather from a difference in the way things are and the way we believe they should be.
Comfort is an illusion.
A false security bred from familiar things and familiar ways. It narrows the mind. Weakens the body. And robs the soul of spirit and determination. Comfort is neither welcome nor tolerated here.