UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: So it would be four - yeah - five, six. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: So it would be six. PRICE: Dozens of students in black Army workout shorts and T-shirts are sprawled nearby, camouflage hydration packs tossed aside and pencils out, helping each other with equations. But whatever works for them will suit them better. So we show them all the ways possible to do that. Some people would add the zeros to fill in the blanks. TENORIO: Everyone's different, so they adapt to what they can do. Between formal classes, an instructor, Staff Sergeant Jonathan Tenorio, has set up a whiteboard outside a classroom building to help students with multiplication. JONATHAN TENORIO: You can use your fingers - plus three? The idea behind the Future Soldier Prep course is simple - give potential recruits who are close to meeting Army standards for written test scores or weight the small boost they need. JAY PRICE, BYLINE: It's a kind of pre-boot camp, boot camp. Jay Price of member station WUNC reports from Fort Jackson, S.C. So now the Army is trying something else. It's thousands of enlistees short for this recruiting year, and that is despite big sign-up bonuses and other incentives.
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