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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges

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

Katie Helland Director employment of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland talks to members of the media during 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 previously this week, Director of Military Accession Policy Katie Helland stated that the services increased the number of employees 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 contracts, and the active elements’ delayed entry program began FY 2025 with a 10% larger swimming pool.

” [The Office of the Secretary of Defense] and the services will continue to develop off the momentum that we have actually gained in 2024,” Helland said.

” Nevertheless,” she continued, “we need to stay carefully optimistic 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 grownups.”

Helland elaborated on those challenges by describing that, for the first time because the metric has actually been tracked, a lot of young people have never ever thought about the choice of serving in the military.

The reasons behind that are multifold, Helland stated. Young Americans have fewer ties to good friends or family members who have actually served in the armed force. There is a declining existence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of individuals between the ages of 17 and 24 require some kind of waiver to serve due to any number of disqualifications.

To counter such obstacles, Helland stated the military has actually carried out a medical pilot program that allows recruits to join the military without a waiver for many health conditions – offered they satisfy certain requirements. Additionally, there are service member preparation courses that prepare employees to fulfill the laborious requirements of military service. Moreover, DOD is seeking to reconnect with youth and employment their influencers by showing them the value of serving.

” The next generation of Americans to serve should know that there has actually 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 2025 recruiting goals 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 participation 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 among the most extremely informed organizations throughout the world and across all pay grades, Helland stated the Defense Department is working hard to counter the story that joining the armed force 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 greater education and career 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 Marketing research and Studies program will quickly launch a campaign to construct familiarity with the American public about the value of military service. Plans are also proceeding to have adult influencers advocate for employment military service.

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