Has anyone seen this news widely spread in the mainstream media?:

The Pentagon’s personnel chief said Tuesday the military has completed its best recruiting year since 1973, meeting all its goals and bringing in a better educated group of young people.The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps met goals for active duty and reserve recruiting during the budget year ended Sept. 30 — the first time that has happened since the all-volunteer force was established, said Defense Department head of personnel Bill Carr.

He told a Pentagon press conference that it’s partly because of department spending on finding recruits, even as fewer civilian jobs were available due to the nation’s economic problems. He also cited increases in military pay.

For the active-duty force overall, Carr said 96 percent of recruits had a high school diploma, the best showing since 1996.  [Stars & Stripes]

Whenever the Army would not meet recruiting goals there was breathless reporting, but now you hardly hear anything.

Notice that the military has a 95% high school graduation rate when the national high school graduation rate is 69.2%.  I have posted before about the demagoging of the US Army high school graduation rate by the media, but isn’t it a national embarrassment that under 70% of Americans fail to graduate high school?  Also misconduct waivers were reduced by 37% even though the total number of misconduct waivers is small in the first place.