Thursday, September 14, 2023

As quality shrinks, officers will be worse. And on and on.-----Today’s Military Recruiting Crisis Is Tomorrow’s Retention Crisis

Today’s Military Recruiting Crisis Is Tomorrow’s Retention Crisis
"...The results are in, and the military’s recruiting crisis shows no signs of letting up. 
A new fiscal year started this past weekend, and the US Army fell 25% short of its target goal for new soldiers...
Today’s military recruiting crisis is tomorrow’s retention crisis...
What has changed [are] the disqualification rates.”
Disqualification rates of interested youth have increased to such an extent 77% of Americans ages 17 to 24 would not qualify for service without a waiver...
Academic and fitness standards should be revisited and dramatically simplified...

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