The Enlistment Potential of College Students
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Recruiters traditionally attempt to meet their mission by targeting youth who plan to graduate from high school but have no immediate plans to attend college. As discussed in Chapter One, this group has not grown in the last two decades whereas the number of young people attending college right after high school has been rising steadily. This chapter explores whether college-bound youth are likely to be a promising pool of recruits and provides information to the services that will enable them to develop policies to tap this market. Given current recruiting shortfalls, now is an especially opportune time to identify new ways to expand the recruiting market.
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