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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges
The Defense Department’s armed services branches recruited 12.5% more individuals in financial year 2024 than in the year prior despite a difficult and disinterested recruiting market.
Katie Helland Director of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland speaks with members of the media throughout a panel on 2025 recruiting goals at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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While speaking at a multiservice panel on 2025 recruiting concerns at the Pentagon previously this week, 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% increase in composed agreements, and the active parts’ postponed entry program began FY 2025 with a 10% bigger 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 said.
” Nevertheless,” she continued, “we require to remain carefully 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 opportunities, a competitive labor market and a declining eligibility amongst young people.”
Helland elaborated on those challenges by discussing that, for the very first time because the metric has actually been tracked, many youths have never ever considered the choice of serving in the armed force.
The factors behind that are multifold, Helland said. Young Americans have less ties to good friends or relative who have served in the military. There is a decreasing presence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of people in between the ages of 17 and 24 need some kind of waiver to serve due to any number of disqualifications.
To counter such challenges, Helland stated the armed force has carried out a medical pilot program that enables recruits to sign up with the military without a waiver for various health conditions – offered they fulfill certain requirements. Additionally, there are service member prep courses that prepare recruits to meet the exhausting requirements of military service. Moreover, DOD is looking for to reconnect with youth and their influencers by revealing them the value 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 stated.
Panel Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder assists in a panel on financial year 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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” Youth today seek a larger purpose in their lives and desire jobs where they have higher involvement in decision-making and can develop a direct concrete effect,” she continued. “Military service provides all of this.”
Explaining that U.S. military service offers more than 250 occupations and that it represents among the most highly educated organizations throughout the world and throughout all pay grades, Helland said the Defense Department is working hard to counter the narrative that joining the military is an to going to 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 greater education and career chances while protecting democracy and the freedoms we hold dear,” Helland stated.
She included that DOD is reframing this narrative. For example, the department’s Joint Advertising Marketing research and Studies program will quickly launch a project to build familiarity with the American public about the value of military service. Plans are likewise continuing to have adult influencers advocate for military service.