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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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FILE - This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, shows a Zircon cruise missile being launched from a Russian navy's frigate during military drills. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that he wouldn't hesitate to use nuclear weapons to ward off Ukraine's attempt to reclaim control of its occupied regions that Moscow is about to absorb. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

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The 202nd RED HORSE Squadron clear roads in Fort Myers Beach, Florida in response to Hurricane Ian, Sept. 30, 2022. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jesse Hanson)

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A video screen grab shows Seaman Recruit Ryan Sawyer Mays speaking outside a military courthouse in San Diego on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, after he was found not guilty of setting a fire that destroyed the $1.2 billion USS Bonhomme Richard.

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Space Force

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Coast Guard

Coast Guard cutter goes on alert with sighting of Russian-Chinese naval formation near Alaska

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Marine Corps

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U.S.

This photo provided by Administrative office of Pennsylvania Courts shows Max Baer, the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Baer has died at age 74 only months before he was set to retire. The court confirmed Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, that Baer died overnight at his home near Pittsburgh.(Administrative office of Pennsylvania Courts via AP)

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Anton said he alone collected 100 corpses in September. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Sasha Maslov.

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Asia-Pacific

Takashi Asahata, a representative of the graduates, makes a speech at the graduation ceremony of the Imperial Guard Headquarters' school on Thursday. MUST CREDIT: Japan News-Yomiuri.

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Middle East

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese president Michel Aoun, left, meets with U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Shea delivered a maritime border demarcation proposal to Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Saturday, as negotiations with Israel continue to progress. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

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Africa

A video screen grab shows coup spokesman Capt. Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho reading a statement in a studio in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, on Friday evening, Sept. 30, 2022.

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Americas

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020, by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, Venezuela freed seven Americans, including five oil executives imprisoned for nearly five years, in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

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There will be no DODEA-Europe Division II football champion this season. Instead, the division’s five entries - Aviano, Naples, Vicenza and Sigonella of Italy and Spain-based Rota - will play out the final three weekends of their regular-season schedule in whatever fashion participating squads are able.

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SHAPEÕs Clara Oberle hits past the Wiesbaden defense of Calen Prevo, left, and Alynna Palacios in a Division I match at the DODEA-Europe volleyball championships in Ramstein, Germany, Oct. 31, 2019. Wiesbaden won 25-12, 25-15, 15-7.

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Getting USS Oklahoma City shipshape, 1971

White Beach, Okinawa, March 19, 1971: A sailor paints an anchor on the USS Oklahoma City during the 7th Fleet command ship’s three-day visit to Okinawa.