“We’re telling our recruiters to go get 40,600 people to join the Navy,” said the branch’s chief of personnel. “We don’t fully expect to get that many. But we’re going for it.”
The US Defense Department is weighing a change in a policy that would lift a ban on the use of calculators on entrance exams amid one of the worst recruiting crises in history, an American broadcaster reported on Monday.
The Libyan branch of IS became a significant stronghold for the militant group, operating beyond its original territories in Iraq and Syria. It capitalized on the chaos and conflict that ensued after a NATO-supported uprising in 2011