"And some people just don't want to put in the work."īut all the causes of the recent drop off aren’t clear. WUNC Faith Thompson, 22, who recently enlisted in the Army in Burlington, N.C., said a lot of her friends don't understand her decision. And he said issues with weight and health are another major factor. “So we're like, okay, something else is wrong.”Ī big part of that "something else," he said, is that fewer potential recruits are scoring well enough on the Armed Forces’ vocational aptitude test, apparently because high school academics suffered during the first years of the pandemic. “What was surprising to us was we were just not getting enough people to want to even take part and try to even receive the incentives,” Vereen said. Even the option to choose where you’re first stationed. A $35,000 bonus for shipping out quickly. Army Recruiting Command, said the Army is offering incentives it never has before: Enlistment bonuses of up to $50,000. Major General Kevin Vereen, who leads the U.S. Rising obesity rates and other physical and mental issues have shrunk the pool of young Americans eligible to serve to just 23 percent. Recruiters have been fighting some long-term trends for decades. It's one of several issues the military shares with civilian employers, who in many cases also are struggling to find workers. And some people just don't want to put in the work."Įxperts think that attitude – a shift away from the “work” part of the work-life balance – is one reason for the recruiting crunch. I think it's a big change, and that's a lot to take in for a lot of people.
“As far as them not wanting to go in, a lot of them are in relationships. “They say … you're not gonna have any freedom,” she said. Some ask why she would want to sign her life away for four years. Thompson said her friends don’t get the appeal of serving. Those who are eligible for bonuses, they get bonuses." “You have your housing paid for, you get a lot of educational assistance, a lot of educational opportunities. “I think a lot of people don't know what the Army can offer,” she said. She seemed almost puzzled at the question of why someone her age wouldn’t consider the military. Thompson, who works as an EMT and already has earned an associate degree, thought about enlisting ever since an encounter with recruiters at the State Fair when she was just six years old. She was dropping off some paperwork ahead of shipping out next month. The 22 year old aspiring combat medic walked in the Burlington, North Carolina recruiter’s office one recent afternoon. In other words, the Army needs a lot more Faith Thompsons. The Pentagon could be tens of thousands of troops short by next year.Įven in North Carolina, perennially among the top five states for recruiting, local recruiters say they expect to fall about 30 percent short of their goal for the fiscal year that ends next month, and they say that’s typical for the service as a whole. The military faces a recruiting crunch so bad that some are calling it the worst since the draft ended nearly half a century ago. ^ "Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı Rütbe ve İşaretleri".^ "Označenie vojenských hodností príslušníkov Ozbrojených síl Slovenskej republiky od ".Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. ^ "Sposób noszenia odznak stopni wojskowych na umundurowaniu wojsk Lądowych i sił Powietrznych" (PDF).^ "De rangonderscheidingstekens van de krijgsmacht" (PDF) (in Dutch).Official Gazette of Montenegro (in Montenegrin).
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