By Megan Scully, CongressDaily
The Army will use two new financial incentives to recruit as many as 4,000 additional active-duty troops over the next year, part of a broader program to add 28,000 soldiers to the force by 2010.
At the urging of Army officials, Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently approved accelerating the service's growth plan by two years, adding new urgency to the service's efforts to recruit and retain personnel.
During a breakfast Thursday with reporters, Lt. Gen. Michael Rochelle, the Army's personnel chief, said the service will soon begin an active-duty version of the successful Guard Recruiter Assistance Program, which offers bonuses to soldiers who sign up new recruits.
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