{"id":149483,"date":"2023-11-07T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149483"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:14:09","slug":"army-recruiting-woes-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149483","title":{"rendered":"Army Recruiting Woes Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Big Army has a big recruiter problem as we reported here:<\/p>\n

Career Enhancing Opportunity!<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of those annoying details have come to light in the interim. It’s not just the shrinking pool of eligible candidates, the number of recruiters has also dropped forcing Army to Do Something.<\/p>\n

Inside the Army’s Mad Dash for Recruiters After Graduating Only Half the Number Needed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Military.com | By Steve Beynon<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Army is rushing to push noncommissioned officers into its recruiting school after graduating only half the number of recruiters this year that the classes are capable of producing, according to service data reviewed by Military.com.<\/p>\n

The eight-week Army Recruiter Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, can train a maximum of 2,866 students across a total of 53 classes. However, data shows that it graduated only 1,336 in fiscal 2023, which concluded at the end of September.<\/p>\n

A sudden and chaotic string of orders for NCOs to immediately fill 800 seats at the recruiting school has roiled the Army in recent days. On Monday, 200 of them started classes after being given a week’s notice, though some soldiers’ orders to the school were canceled due to media coverage and local chains of command that were irritated by the short notice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Army decided it needed additional recruiters Right Now. In addition to a $5K sign-on bonus and rapid advancement to sweeten the recruiter pot, the previous post mentioned relaxed standards. Now we know what those standards are, or more appropriately were.<\/p>\n

“I will tell you we are not lowering the standards at all,” said Command Sergeant Major Shade Munday, the top enlisted leader for U.S. Army Recruiting Command.<\/p>\n

Except for eliminating time-in-grade requirements, compliance with body fat standards and the need to pass a physical fitness test. Those standards haven’t been lowered; they have been waived. Munday bizarrely ties these in with recovering injured soldiers who attend the recruiting course.<\/p>\n

Next up, Career Recruiter MOS 42T to augment the existing 79R recruiter MOS. Also in the works, the Good Idea Fairy has come up with a Warrant Officer recruiting workforce. Can’t wait to see how that will work, as we all know WO’s don’t actually exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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