{"id":136819,"date":"2023-02-05T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136819"},"modified":"2023-02-05T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:54:48","slug":"implosion-of-the-all-volunteer-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136819","title":{"rendered":"Implosion of the all-volunteer military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/00recruiting-02-superJumbo-e1546455054455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83893 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/00recruiting-02-superJumbo-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recruiting challenges continue to face the military. Stuart Scheller, of Real Clear Defense, points to leadership. Leadership contributed directly, or indirectly, to events occurring in the military that are seen and reviewed by the public at large. Scheller also addresses the blended retirement system that removes a financial incentive to continue to make the military a career.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Real Clear Defense:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Tillis, who like others on the committee lacks military experience, failed recognizing how the blended retirement model, recently implemented in the military, will negatively impact retention. Military members entering the service after 1 January 2018 are no longer beholden to the twenty-year retirement model. Starting last year, service members under the blended retirement model can begin exiting without financial penalty. This new generation has a 401K transferable to any organization. Past generations within the all-volunteer model were influenced by financial pressure to sustain service towards a twenty-year retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Economics, much like the influence it had on the creation of the all-volunteer force, drove the military towards the 401K system. But when financial motivations compelled the shift, military leaders failed modifying how senior commanders treated talented service members with 8 to 18 years of service. In the past, leaders took for granted middle management&#8217;s dedication while working towards retirement. This is no longer the case. If there is no offsetting financial penalty, why would service members work 18-hour days building power-point slides with vague purpose, withstand beratement, and move every three years when other opportunities await? And these retention problems only exacerbate recruitment shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>Military service should be about a larger selfless sacrifice, but it&#8217;s hard for leadership to stand on principal about selfless service when financial incentives drove the creation of the all-volunteer force and then later shifted it to the blended retirement model. This, exacerbated by leadership&#8217;s inability for honest self-reflection, makes any calls to duty and honor ring hollow.<\/p>\n<p>Temporary incentives focused on recruiting such as lowering standards, waiving tattoo restrictions, amending previous disqualifying medical conditions, and offering marginally higher financial incentives will not be enough to guarantee an increase in dedicated volunteers or offset falling retention rates. Without dramatic changes to current leadership, the bleeding will continue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stuart Scheller details what he sees as challenges to maintaining the all-volunteer force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realcleardefense.com\/articles\/2023\/02\/03\/our_all-volunteer_military_force_implodes_879776.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruiting challenges continue to face the military. 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