{"id":150810,"date":"2023-12-15T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150810"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:37:07","slug":"the-military-says-that-recruiting-woes-are-more-complicated-than-woke-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150810","title":{"rendered":"The Military says that recruiting woes are more complicated than ‘woke’ policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican lawmakers are pointing to Joe Biden’s military ‘woke’ policies as a major contributing factor to recruiting challenges. However, the military is saying that there is a combination of issues that are presenting these challenges. Included among these issues are low unemployment, getting the message to younger generations, lack of familiarity with the military, as well as concerns of getting war related injuries.<\/p>\n

From Stars & Stripes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The top challenge facing U.S. military recruiting efforts is a lack of awareness about the armed forces among U.S. youth and not “woke” policies, top Pentagon personnel officials told House lawmakers Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Personnel policymakers for the Defense Department and the Army, Navy and Air Force insisted their top hurdles to reaching annual recruiting goals amounted to a messaging problem. Generation Z — people born in the mid-1990s through the early 2010s — have little familiarity with the military and lack understanding of the opportunities uniformed service could provide them, defense officials told the House Armed Services Committee’s military personnel subpanel.<\/p>\n

“This combined with historically low unemployment, a strong private sector wage growth, concerns about the risks of military service, the [coronavirus pandemic’s] impact on school access [to recruiters] has all turned into a perfect storm — creating the most challenging recruiting environment for our high-tech service since the height of the dot-com boom, nearly a quarter of a century ago,” said Alex Wagner, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs.<\/p>\n

Officials from the other services made similar assessments of recruiting now, which is generally considered the most difficult time to attract new troops since the introduction of the all-volunteer force 50 years ago. Last year the military services, excluding the Marine Corps and Space Force, missed their annual enlistment goals. The Army, which missed its goal by about 10,000 recruits, failed for a second straight year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stars & Stripes has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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