'Google Generation' Cyber Recruits May Not Face Combat Training

In an attempt to improve recruiting, the U.S. Army may excuse cyber personnel from combat training, reports London's Daily Telegraph.

The service needs to be able to recruit people who are not standard candidates for a military career if the Army is to obtain the right skills for cyber conflict, said Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, the commander of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

"We need to give serious consideration to how the U.S. Army could combine the...