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FILE - Students in the new Army prep course stand at attention after physical training exercises at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Aug. 27, 2022. The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, Sept. 30, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

Army misses recruiting goal; other services squeak by

While the Army was the only service that didn't meet its target, all of the others had to dig deep into their pools of delayed entry applicants, putting them behind as they begin the next recruiting year.

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Polio shot, 1955

Frankfurt, Germany, August 1955: With his 6-year-old brother Ronald watching, 7-year-old Robert Duran, son of Sgt. and Mrs. Raymond Duran, receives a Salk polio vaccine shot from Capt. Anna L. O’Hagen at the 97th General Hospital.