{"id":54195,"date":"2014-07-27T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54195"},"modified":"2014-07-26T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T00:07:22","slug":"recruiting-and-retention-hard-for-the-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54195","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting and Retention hard for the Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, everyone who reads TAH and is surprised by that headline, go back to grade school and work on your reading comprehension. From Army.mil<\/a>;<\/p>\n

All the time, people tell Lt. Gen. Jeffery W. Talley how the recent drop in force structure end strengths must mean that recruiting and retention must no longer be a problem, he said.<\/p>\n

But that just isn’t the case, said Talley, who is chief of the Army Reserve and commander of the U.S. Army Reserve Command. He was speaking at the 2014 USARC Commanders Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, July 21.<\/p>\n

“We have a crisis in manning the Reserve. It’s a lot harder to recruit and retain than it used to be,” Talley said, acknowledging the irony of the situation.<\/p>\n

About three out of four men and women ages 17 to 28 are not even eligible to be recruited, he said, particularly since requirements have been tightened. Some of those requirements have to do with education and criminal records and others have to do with weight and fitness standards and even certain visible tattoos.<\/p>\n

Besides private-sector businesses and industry, “all of the services and components are competing for these talented young men and women,” he said.<\/p>\n

Many Soldiers are also leaving the Reserve. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When was it a few months ago when we all read that the operational tempo for the reserves was going to increase while the active force sheds experienced warriors, so, who the hell wants to be a part time soldier and working almost full time? Who wants to burden their lives with petty BS like tattoo-bans for a part time job? The plan was flawed from the first word that came out of some flag officer’s mouth.<\/p>\n

They thought recruiting would remain a constant no matter what they did to the troops, and the troops are marching off with a duffel bag over their shoulders. They’re looking at personnel cuts, like pay cuts and a COLA that doesn’t keep pace with inflation (the White House and Congress are looking at a 1% COLA raise this year, but inflation has been over 1.8%), closing Commissaries, ending Tricare Prime, ending selective reenlistment bonuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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