by ADC | Jul 7, 2025 | Congress/DoD, On Base, Recruitment
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made an impassioned plea for young Americans to join the military in a White House social media post over the holiday weekend. “In every generation, you have to ask yourself the question, ‘If not me, then who’s it gonna be?’” Hegseth...
by ADC | Jul 1, 2025 | Congress/DoD, On Base, Recruitment
As the Army goes through a series of reorganizations, service leaders are now planning to change or shut down Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs at 84 college campuses, Military.com reported. “This rebalance and optimization effort ensures we meet the Army’s...
by ADC | Jun 23, 2025 | Congress/DoD, On Base, Recruitment
The Air Force expects to meet its recruitment goal for the fiscal year by the end of this month, three months early. “We continue to bring in folks that historically would have been shut out of the Air Force and they would have walked right over to the Navy office, or...
by arhoden | Jun 4, 2025 | On Base, Recruitment
The Army has hit its target of recruiting 61,000 active duty soldiers with several months left in the recruitment cycle, as Military.com reported. Army Secretary wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the success is because of “a resurgence of pride in our country”...
by arhoden | Apr 24, 2025 | On Base, Recruitment
The Army has exceeded its retention goal for fiscal year 2025, Military Times reported. The Army said it had reenlisted 15,600 soldiers, above its original goal of 14,800. “Reaching our reenlistment goal ahead of schedule has put the Army in a good position to...
by arhoden | Apr 22, 2025 | On Base, Recruitment
The Army has hit 85% of its recruitment goal with more than five months to go in the fiscal year. Military.com reported that by last week, the Army had enlisted 51,837 recruits, or 85% of its 61,000-recruit target for fiscal year 2025. At this point last fiscal year,...
by ADC | Mar 18, 2025 | Congress/DoD, On Base, Recruitment
The sites across the country where military recruits take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test are open again. They had been briefly closed because of sweeping DOGE cuts, as Task & Purpose reported. DOGE leaders had deemed that military officials’...
by ADC | Mar 7, 2025 | On Base, Recruitment
The Air Force has seen a historic surge in the number of potential recruits in its delayed entry program, Air Force Recruiting Service Commander Brig. Gen. Christopher Amrhein said at this week’s AFA Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado. Defense News reported that...
by ADC | Feb 13, 2025 | Congress/DoD, On Base, Quality of Life, Recruitment
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) told Military Times that under his leadership, the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee will focus on bringing more young Americans into the military. “We need access in the high schools. We need ROTC units to be allowed at all...
