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After all the articles we’ve done on the shortfalls in recruiting among all the larger services, two of the littlest are hitting their goals.<\/p>\n
The Marine Corps once again met or slightly outperformed its goals for recruiting across all major categories in the past fiscal year, according to recruiting numbers released Thursday to Marine Corps Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Slightly outperformed” – in this case “slightly” may even\u00a0 be an exaggeration, as they overshot their goals by 21 men. Call it a couple of squads. But, it’s still more than their objective, which is more than I can say for the Navy, Army, and Air Force (I recently discovered that last has an O in it – who knew.) Oh, and Space Force got their recruit.<\/p>\n
Jim Edwards, a spokesman for Marine Corps Recruiting Command, said via email Thursday that the service exceeded its goal for non-prior-service enlistments by 21 people, for a total of 33,323 new or soon-to-be Marines.<\/p>\n
Broken down, that means 28,921 new enlisted Marines in the active force and 4,402 new Marines in the Reserve, according to Edwards.<\/p>\n