The Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force say they will all meet their recruiting goals by the end of this month and the Navy will come very close
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth talks with soldiers at Fort Jackson, a U.S. Army Training Center, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Columbia, S.C.
This year, with a lower goal of 55,000, the service will meet its target, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Wednesday, and she plans to now set a higher goal for 2025. “I think we’re going to probably continue to see pretty low unemployment. We’re still going to see 60% go to college. It’s a more competitive labor market,” Wormuth said. “So we’re going to have to kind of keep fighting hard for our new recruits.”
The Navy fell short of its recruiting goal by about 7,000 last year, prompting leaders to take more dramatic steps than the other services. It has worked to greatly expand its pool of applicants by bringing in recruitsor a GED and by taking young adults who score very low on the armed services test. Both are rare steps that the other services greatly limit or avoid.
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