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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges
The Defense Department’s armed services branches recruited 12.5% more people in fiscal year 2024 than in the year prior despite a difficult and indifferent recruiting market.
Katie Helland Director of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland speaks to members of the media during a panel on financial year 2025 recruiting goals at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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While speaking at a multiservice panel on 2025 recruiting issues at the Pentagon previously this week, Director employment of Military Accession Policy Katie Helland stated that the services increased the variety of recruits from 200,000 in FY 2023 to 225,000 in FY 2024, which ended September 30.
Additionally, she stated, the services had a 35% increase in composed agreements, and the active elements’ postponed entry program started FY 2025 with a 10% bigger swimming pool.
» [The Office of the Secretary of Defense] and the services will continue to develop off the momentum that we’ve acquired in 2024, » Helland stated.
» Nevertheless, » she continued, « we need to stay meticulously optimistic about the future recruiting operations as we continue to hire 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 obstacles by discussing that, for the very first time because the metric has been tracked, many youths have never ever considered the choice of serving in the military.
The reasons behind that are multifold, Helland stated. Young Americans have less ties to buddies or household members who have actually served in the armed force. There is a declining existence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of individuals in between the ages of 17 and 24 need some type of waiver to serve due to any variety of disqualifications.
To counter such obstacles, Helland stated the armed force has actually carried out a medical pilot program that enables employees to sign up with the military without a waiver for numerous health conditions – provided they fulfill certain requirements. Additionally, there are service member prep courses that prepare employees to fulfill the of military service. Moreover, DOD is seeking to reconnect with youth and their influencers by showing them the worth of serving.
» The next generation of Americans to serve need to understand that there has never been a better time for them to choose military service, » Helland stated.
Panel Pentagon Press Secretary Flying Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder assists in a panel on fiscal year 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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» Youth today seek a bigger purpose in their lives and desire tasks where they have greater involvement in decision-making and can create a direct tangible impact, » she continued. « Military service provides all of this. »
Explaining that U.S. military service provides more than 250 professions and that it represents one of the most extremely informed organizations throughout the world and employment across all pay grades, Helland stated the Defense Department is striving to counter the narrative that signing up with the military is an alternative to going to college or « an option of last option. »
» We are working to reframe this story so that Americans comprehend that military service is a pathway to greater education and profession chances while defending democracy and the flexibilities we love, » Helland stated.
She included that DOD is reframing this story. For example, the department’s Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies program will quickly release a campaign to build familiarity with the American public about the worth of military service. Plans are also proceeding to have adult influencers advocate for employment military service.