Perspective | Military recruitment lapses lead to ‘challenges to national security’

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Perspective | Military recruitment lapses lead to ‘challenges to national security’
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Perspective: Recent Pentagon data indicates the Army and Navy have fallen well short of their recruitment goals this fiscal year, posing a threat to national security.

, allegedly used the online platform to post a mother lode of secret documents. Teixeira was arrested in Dighton, Mass., last week and charged with retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents.

But across the Capitol and the aisle, Sen. Jack Reed , chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, shot down that notion indeter recruits from enlisting in significant numbers was the idea of the military being ‘woke.’”“Let me be clear,” he added. “Diversity and inclusion strengthens our military. By every measure, America’s military is more lethal and ready than it has ever been. It is also more diverse and inclusive than ever before. This is not a coincidence.

Schwegman isn’t a recruiter, but she sure sounds like one. She initially learned about the military through her Army sergeant father, a Haitian immigrant. The military paid for his education and that seemed like a good idea to his daughter, who was a Naval Academy senior when terrorists shocked the United States with hijacked airline attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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