But the evidence on the ground - and again this is coming from UN sources and reports and other credible organisations - seems conclusive: that Rwandan soldiers have been actively involved in supplying guns, other military equipment, recruits, and perhaps even fighting alongside the M23, as the mutineers now call themselves - and that Rwanda's intervention has been a game-changer.
The final selection of recruits will remain in military hands.
The Army already has doubled the number of recruits with the lowest scores on military aptitude tests.
Law enforcement officers and military personnel made up most of the first recruits to join the agency's replenished ranks in October 2001, said Jamie Smith, a former federal air marshal instructor and current CEO of SCG International, a global security firm.
Some have estimated that military sponsorships of NASCAR have generated 50, 000 potential recruits.
The military also hopes to boost the "contract force" with recruits from neighbouring former Soviet republics.
At the same time, the pool of Americans eligible for military service is shrinking, and competition for high-quality recruits is intensifying.
Unlike U.S. postal facilities, shootings at U.S. military facilities are rare, even though these bases are designed to train recruits to kill others quickly, because the bases are also replete with people who wield guns proficiently and defensively.
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While able to find fresh recruits to replace those killed and arrested it seems to have more difficulty replacing senior military trainers and other key operational figures.
The greeting, uttered heartily by recruits standing watch on each floor of the three-story brick barracks, was not quite military protocol.
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