Job seekers throng to join US military

A salary and work experience are looking good to recruits, who will take their chances despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, writes Anne Davies from Baltimore.

When the going gets tough, the battlers join the army

WASHINGTON: The state of the US job market has prompted Myeshia Townsend, 23, from Temple Hills, Maryland, to make a decision most of us would quail at. After a year of fruitless search for work, the interior design graduate has decided to join the US Army.