The Air Force will meet its goal of 27,100 new recruits this fiscal year, Military Times reported, after having missed its targets in the previous year.
The service has set an even more ambitious goal for fiscal year 2025: 32,500 new airmen, a 20% increase. It has added almost 400 recruiters, many of whom will be stationed in the Southern U.S., Air Force Recruiting Service Commander Brig. Gen. Christopher Amrhein said this week.
Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jessica Kind
U.S. Marines with 4th Marine Division Color Guard participate in the 92nd Hollywood Parade in Los Angeles Dec. 1. Marines participated in the parade to improve community relations and increase morale. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Sarah M. Grawcock
ADC Executive Director Matt Borron hosted The Roosevelt Group Principal Matthew Herrmann and POLITICO Pentagon reporter Paul McLeary Thursday on a post-election webinar for ADC members. Here are some of the moments you may have missed. On a Continuing Resolution It...
Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth has spent the week meeting with Republican senators to try to get their support for his troubled nomination to become Defense secretary. “I think most people do not expect Hegseth to make it,” a Republican senator told The Hill....
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will not include an additional round of aid for Ukraine in a stopgap spending bill, Politico reported. The White House requested the funding to make weapons to send to Ukraine and refill the U.S. military’s stock. “It is not the...
President-elect Trump has nominated Daniel Driscoll, an Army veteran who served in the Iraq war to lead the Army, as AP reported. A friend and aide to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Driscoll has worked in investment banking and as a consultant in North Carolina....
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced $2.1 million in funding to communities for infrastructure projects that support the military through the...
President-elect Donald Trump has offered billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg the role of deputy defense secretary, The Washington Post reported...
New JROTC Program in Hawaii The Coast Guard has established a JROTC program at Kalani High School in Honolulu, the first such program in Hawaii,...
The Army will establish new regional recruiting centers in Los Angeles and work closely with leaders in those communities, according to a recent...
The federal government is set to shut down on Dec. 20 if Congress doesn’t reach an agreement on fiscal year 2025 spending by then. Following the...
ADC is inviting members and DOD/Federal employees to an exclusive post-election webinar Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. Eastern time. “As Washington and the nation...
Changes in how the Air Force organizes, deploys and trains forces may mean there aren’t enough airmen to fully staff some installations, the...
John Phelan, a business owner and Trump campaign donor, is President-elect Trump’s pick to become Navy secretary, as Navy Times reported. “John will...
Nineteen people across the country have been named to the new class of local Defense Community Champions, through an initiative of ADC with support...
Military families are planning ahead for their 2025 finances in an uncertain economy. In the latest edition of America’s Defense Communities...