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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges

The Defense Department’s armed services branches recruited 12.5% more people in 2024 than in the year prior in spite of a challenging and indifferent recruiting market.

Katie Helland Director of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland speaks with members of the media during a panel on financial year 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, job Oct. 30, job 2024.
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While speaking at a multiservice panel on 2025 recruiting concerns at the Pentagon previously today, Director of Military Accession Policy Katie Helland stated that the services increased the variety of employees from 200,000 in FY 2023 to 225,000 in FY 2024, which ended September 30.

Additionally, she said, the services had a 35% boost in written agreements, and the active elements’ postponed entry program started FY 2025 with a 10% larger swimming pool.

 » [The Office of the Secretary of Defense] and the services will continue to build off the momentum that we’ve gotten in 2024, » Helland stated.

 » Nevertheless, » she continued, « we require to stay very carefully positive about the future recruiting operations as we continue to recruit in a market that has low youth tendency to serve, limited familiarity with military chances, a competitive labor market and a decreasing eligibility among young adults. »

Helland elaborated on those challenges by discussing that, job for the first time considering that the metric has been tracked, many young people have actually never considered the option of serving in the military.

The reasons behind that are multifold, Helland said. Young Americans have fewer ties to friends or job relative who have actually served in the armed force. There is a decreasing presence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 need some kind of waiver to serve due to any variety of disqualifications.

To counter such challenges, Helland said the armed force has executed a medical pilot program that allows recruits to sign up with the armed force without a waiver for numerous health conditions – offered they meet specific requirements. Additionally, there are service member prep courses that prepare recruits to meet the strenuous requirements of military service. Moreover, DOD is seeking to reconnect with youth and their influencers by revealing them the worth of serving.

 » The next generation of Americans to serve ought to know that there has actually never been a much better time for them to choose military service, » Helland said.

Panel Pentagon Press Secretary Flying Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder facilitates a panel on 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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 » Youth today look for a larger purpose in their lives and desire tasks where they have higher involvement in decision-making and can develop a direct concrete impact, » she continued. « Military service provides all of this. »

Explaining that U.S. military service uses more than 250 professions which it represents one of the most extremely educated companies throughout the world and across all pay grades, job Helland stated the Defense Department is striving to counter the narrative that signing up with the military is an to attending college or « a choice of last option. »

 » We are working to reframe this story so that Americans comprehend that military service is a pathway to higher education and profession chances while defending democracy and the liberties we love, » Helland stated.

She added that DOD is reframing this story. For example, the department’s Joint Advertising Marketing research and Studies program will soon launch a campaign to build familiarity with the American public about the worth of military service. Plans are also proceeding to have adult influencers promote for job military service.