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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation
TOMS RIVER, N.J. - Sgt. 1st Class Dane Beaston had endured the stress, frustration and disappointment of one of the worst recruiting slumps in the half-century history of the U.S. military’s all-volunteer force. Now he was trying to do his part to end it. …