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Defense

Prep courses, policy changes mainly contributed to successful recruiting year

“In the Army specifically, these efforts will increase the professionalization," said Kate Kuzminski.

Army

Army expands its officer rebranching program

Army

Army ups its recruitment targets by thousands in 2025

Defense

Biden admin defends delayed citizenship policy for service members, ACLU pushes back

Navy

Navy’s targets on surge-ready ships, recruitment are ‘stretch’ goals

Air Force

Air Force to increase its recruitment goal in 2025

Defense

Navy recruiting rebounds, but it will miss its target to get sailors through boot camp

Coast Guard
Defense News

Coast Guard weathers operational cutbacks amid serious personnel shortage

Adm. Linda Fagan 
Defense

Coast Guard on track to meet its recruiting goals

Rear Adm. Terry B. Kraft, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Japan, passes through sideboys as the official party arrives for a ship visit aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63).
U.S. Navy/MC3 Gregory A. Harden II
Navy

Navy grapples with at-sea shortages as recruiting lags

Army recruitment
Defense

Military struggles to bring Gen Z into the armed forces

Army Recruiting Hurdles
Federal Newscast

One big reason for military recruitment crisis is unfit youth

Military Recruiting Legal Immigrants
Federal Newscast

Low recruiting, high retention, putting financial strain on military

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rashawn Duffy, 37th Training Wing Detachment 5 military training instructor, presents a coin to an Airman during the basic military training coining ceremony outside of Erwin Manor at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, May 14, 2020. Nearly 60 Airmen from the 37th TRW Detachment 5 completed the six-week basic military training course. Due to safety concerns stemming from COVID-19, the Air Force sent new recruits to Keesler to demonstrate a proof of concept to generate the force at multiple locations during contingencies. The flight was the first to graduate BMT at Keesler since 1968. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)
81st Training Wing Public Affair/Kemberly Groue
Air Force

Air Force to fall short of recruiting goal for first time since 1999

Army Base Renaming
Federal Newscast

Military recruiters may need to dive deeper on the kinds of folks they bring aboard

Joel Spangenberg 2
Peter Musurlian
Defense

What it takes for a small agency to be a great place to work

Students in the new Army prep course run around a track during physical training exercises at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. The new program prepares recruits for the demands of basic training. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
Federal Newscast

Recruiting struggles continue across the military

Stephanie Miller
Defense

Several military branches poised to miss recruitment targets for fiscal 2022

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rashawn Duffy, 37th Training Wing Detachment 5 military training instructor, presents a coin to an Airman during the basic military training coining ceremony outside of Erwin Manor at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, May 14, 2020. Nearly 60 Airmen from the 37th TRW Detachment 5 completed the six-week basic military training course. Due to safety concerns stemming from COVID-19, the Air Force sent new recruits to Keesler to demonstrate a proof of concept to generate the force at multiple locations during contingencies. The flight was the first to graduate BMT at Keesler since 1968. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)
81st Training Wing Public Affair/Kemberly Groue
Air Force

Air Force meets 2022 recruiting goal, but faces myriad short and long-term challenges