Top Counties for Army Recruitment The 500 counties with the highest recruitment rates in a given year as a percentage of population, excluding counties with fewer than five recruits.
Yes, they are almost all rural counties. (That's Marinette County in Wisconsin.)
The Army is not quite counting on miracles, but after falling 6,500 soldiers short of its goalnationwide for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, it is trying a new strategy that might seem almost as unlikely.
Rather than focus on more conservative regions of the country that traditionally fill the ranks, the Army plans a big push in 22 left-leaning cities, like Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, where relatively few recruits have signed up.
June enjoyed a run of 27 years (1915-1941) in the top 100, peaking at #39 in 1925. Her popularity increasingly waned starting in the 1960s, causing her to disappear from view after 1986. Since 2008, she's staged an impressive comeback.
The Foundations scored their first top 10 hit with "Build Me Up Buttercup", which can now be heard at every Wisconsin Badgers home football game at Camp Randall Stadium, many in the crowd continuing to sing a capella when the song stop before reaching its end. In early 1968, the group missed the top 10 by a single position with "Baby Now That I've Found You". In other chart action for this week's class, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles scored their 5th (of 7) top 10 hit with "Baby, Baby Don't Cry", and the Turtles made their 5th and last appearance in the top 10 with the dreamy "You Showed Me".
In 19 days, the campaign has reached 1.9% of its goal. At this rate, the wall will be fully funded by August 12, 2021 -- IF the initial pace of contributions continues. Not gonna happen. It took just 5 days to raise the first $10,000,000. 15 days later, the level has yet to reach $20,000,000. Average contribution: $60.40. 315,405 contributors down, just 16,240,886 to go! At least 315,405 people turn a blind eye to reality.
“The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter at 6:15 a.m. Thursday.
But a review of Mr. Trump’s public statements on Twitter, in campaign speeches and during interviews shows that the president’s views on the border wall have shifted repeatedly since he raised the idea nearly four years ago, on Aug. 5, 2014.
