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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 despite a challenging and indifferent recruiting market.
Katie Helland Director of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland speaks with members of the media throughout a panel on 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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While speaking at a multiservice panel on 2025 hiring issues at the Pentagon earlier today, Director 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% boost in written agreements, and the active components’ delayed entry program began FY 2025 with a 10% larger 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 remain meticulously positive about the future recruiting operations as we continue to recruit in a market that has low youth propensity to serve, limited familiarity with military chances, a competitive labor market and a declining eligibility among young adults. »
Helland elaborated on those difficulties by that, employment for the very first time because the metric has actually been tracked, the majority of youths have actually never ever thought about the choice of serving in the armed force.
The factors behind that are multifold, Helland said. Young Americans have fewer ties to buddies or household members who have served in the military. There is a decreasing presence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of individuals between the ages of 17 and employment 24 need some type of waiver to serve due to any variety of disqualifications.
To counter such obstacles, Helland said the armed force has actually implemented a medical pilot program that allows recruits to sign up with the military without a waiver for many health conditions – supplied they meet specific requirements. Additionally, there are service member preparation courses that prepare employees to satisfy the exhausting requirements of military service. Moreover, employment DOD is looking for to reconnect with youth and their influencers by revealing them the worth of serving.
» The next generation of Americans to serve must know that there has never been a better time for them to select military service, » Helland said.
Panel Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder facilitates 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 participation in decision-making and can develop a direct tangible impact, » she continued. « Military service provides all of this. »
Explaining that U.S. military service provides more than 250 occupations which it represents one of the most highly informed organizations throughout the world and throughout all pay grades, Helland said the Defense Department is working hard to counter the narrative that signing up with the military is an alternative to participating in college or « an alternative of last resort. »
» We are working to reframe this narrative so that Americans comprehend that military service is a pathway to higher education and profession opportunities while protecting democracy and the flexibilities we love, » Helland stated.
She included that DOD is reframing this narrative. For instance, the department’s Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies program will quickly release a project to build familiarity with the American public about the value of military service. Plans are also continuing to have adult influencers promote for military service.