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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges

The Defense Department’s armed services branches hired 12.5% more people in 2024 than in the year prior regardless of 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 fiscal year 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 this week, 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, employment which ended September 30.

Additionally, she said, the services had a 35% increase in composed contracts, and the active components’ entry program started FY 2025 with a 10% bigger pool.

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

” Nevertheless,” she continued, “we require to remain meticulously positive about the future recruiting operations as we continue to recruit in a market that has low youth tendency to serve, restricted familiarity with military opportunities, a competitive labor market and a decreasing 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 young people have actually never considered the choice of serving in the armed force.

The factors behind that are multifold, Helland stated. Young Americans have less ties to good friends or household members who have actually served in the military. There is a decreasing presence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 require some kind of waiver to serve due to any variety of disqualifications.

To counter such obstacles, Helland said the armed force has actually carried out a medical pilot program that enables employees to join the armed force without a waiver for many health conditions – offered they meet certain requirements. Additionally, there are service member prep courses that prepare recruits to satisfy the laborious 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 ever been a much better time for them to pick military service,” Helland said.

Panel Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder helps with a panel on financial year 2025 recruiting goals at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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” Youth today seek a bigger function in their lives and desire jobs where they have greater involvement in decision-making and can produce a direct concrete effect,” she continued. “Military service offers all of this.”

Explaining that U.S. military service offers more than 250 professions which it represents one of the most highly educated companies throughout the world and throughout all pay grades, Helland stated the Defense Department is working hard to counter the narrative that joining the armed force 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 path to higher education and career opportunities while safeguarding democracy and the liberties we love,” Helland stated.

She added that DOD is reframing this narrative. For instance, the department’s Joint Advertising Market Research and employment Studies program will soon release a project to build familiarity with the American public about the value of military service. Plans are also continuing to have adult influencers advocate for military service.

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