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Military leaders told lawmakers they’re concerned because they’re having trouble recruiting Americans to serve the country.
“So we’re going to have to kind of keep fighting hard for our new recruits.” A key to the recruiting success, she said, has been the Army's future soldier prep course that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards.
The armed forces are struggling bring in enough enlistees to fill their ranks. Reversing the trend could require reconsidering who they try to recruit and how they reward those who do sign up.
A "war for talent" is how the Army is describing its plummeting recruitment numbers. The military targets teenagers and young adults, but get this: most of them aren't qualified to serve.
Drill instructors hammer into recruits a rigid moral code of honor, courage and commitment with the goal, according to the Marine Corps, of producing young Marines “thoroughly indoctrinated in love of Corps and Country … the epitome of personal character, selflessness, and military virtue.” The code is unyielding.
LANGHORNE, Pennsylvania -- Sgt. First Class Rocky Weaver, 32, looked out on the floor of a suburban military recruitment center outside Philadelphia. He eyed the freshly graduated teens still shuffling their feet and smiling awkwardly, who had turned up to enlist in the U.S. Army.
The American military has had recruiters since the time of the colonies in the 1700s. Today there are thousands of recruiting stations across the United States, serving the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. Recruiting offices normally consist of 2–8 recruiters between the ranks of E-5 and E-7.
The U.S. military is actively discussing an initiative, proposed by a defense contractor, to fund athletic scholarships for tens of thousands of college athletes each year in exchange for their ...