U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth pledged to enlist 65,000 new recruits in 2023, despite a crisis faced by most military branches in finding new recruits.
are not attainable. Leaders will also have to lean more heavily on National Guard and Reserve troops if recruiting numbers fail to rebound.
A pilot program was opened at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in August for recruits with 6% more body fat than the Army standards or had scored between 21 and 30 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test.The announcement last month was to launch four additional companies – two at Fort Jackson and another two at Fort Benning, Georgia. In essence, the programs should allow room for 2,000 additional recruits at Fort Jackson and 6,400 recruits per year at Fort Benning.
One thing the Army will not do, however, is lower its admission standards for the purpose of attracting more recruits.
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