{"id":155912,"date":"2024-04-23T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155912"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:30:53","slug":"army-meeting-recruiting-goals-not-so-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155912","title":{"rendered":"Army Meeting Recruiting Goals; Not So Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Army on track to meet lower recruiting goal, Navy may fall short<\/h3>\n

The Army lowered its recruiting goal. The Navy increased its \u2014 and now might miss it.<\/em>
\nBY JEFF SCHOGOL<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Army expects to meet its recruiting goal for the first time in three years, but the Navy continues to struggle to sign up enough new sailors, causing manning shortfalls at the junior enlisted levels, service officials said.<\/p>\n

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told lawmakers on Thursday that February and March had been good months for recruiting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have six months to go in the fiscal year, so the chief and I don\u2019t want to be overconfident, but right now we are on a very good pace, I think, to meet this recruiting goal, which is 55,000 new contracts plus 5,000 in the Delayed Entry Program,\u201d Wormuth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n

Wormuth credited the Army\u2019s recent recruiting success to several innovations, including new recruiting commercials that ran during college basketball\u2019s \u201cMarch Madness\u201d games; changes to how soldiers are selected to be Army recruiters; an overhaul on how Army recruiters are trained; the Army Future Soldier Preparatory Course which helps recruits get fit for basic training; and selecting the first cohort of warrant officers to be trained as recruiters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing some things to leverage better data to give our recruiters stronger leads, and we\u2019re looking at how to break into the college market,\u201d Wormuth said.
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\nWhile all the military branches have faced recruiting woes in recent years, the Air Force, Space Force, and Marine Corps are all on track to make their recruiting goals for Fiscal Year 2024, service officials said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Navy projects that it could miss this fiscal year\u2019s recruiting goal of 40,600 active-duty sailors by about 6,700, according to Navy Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, Chief of Naval Personnel.<\/p>\n

The Navy also fell short last year by 7,000 recruits. That deficit forced it to increase recruiting goals for this fiscal year, according to the Navy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n

Lower enlistment quotas and those Recruiting Warrants may have turned the tide for Army, while in its infinite wisdom Navy increased its recruitment goals from FY 2023 and promptly failed to meet them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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