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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges

The Defense Department’s armed services branches hired 12.5% more people in financial year 2024 than in the year prior regardless of a tough and disinterested recruiting market.

Katie Helland Director of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland talks to members of the media during a panel on 2025 recruiting goals at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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While speaking at a multiservice panel on 2025 hiring concerns at the Pentagon previously this week, job Director of Military Accession Policy Katie Helland said that the services increased the variety of employees from 200,000 in FY 2023 to 225,000 in FY 2024, job which ended September 30.

Additionally, she said, the services had a 35% increase in written agreements, and the active components’ postponed entry program began FY 2025 with a 10% larger swimming pool.

” [The Office of the Secretary of Defense] and the services will continue to build off the momentum that we’ve acquired in 2024,” Helland stated.

” Nevertheless,” she continued, “we require to stay very carefully positive about the future recruiting operations as we continue to recruit in a market that has low youth tendency to serve, minimal familiarity with military opportunities, a competitive labor market and a decreasing eligibility amongst young people.”

Helland elaborated on those difficulties by explaining that, for the very first time because the metric has actually been tracked, most young people have never ever considered the choice of serving in the military.

The factors behind that are multifold, Helland stated. Young Americans have less ties to good friends or members who have served in the armed force. There is a declining existence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of people between the ages of 17 and job 24 require some type of waiver to serve due to any number of disqualifications.

To counter such challenges, Helland said the armed force has implemented a medical pilot program that permits employees to sign up with the armed force without a waiver for various health conditions – supplied they satisfy certain requirements. Additionally, there are service member preparation courses that prepare employees to fulfill the strenuous requirements of military service. Moreover, DOD is looking for to reconnect with youth and their influencers by showing them the value of serving.

” The next generation of Americans to serve need to know that there has actually never been a much better time for them to select military service,” Helland said.

Panel Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder facilitates a panel on 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, 2024.
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” Youth today look for a larger purpose in their lives and desire jobs where they have greater involvement in decision-making and can produce a direct tangible effect,” she continued. “Military service provides all of this.”

Explaining that U.S. military service offers more than 250 professions which it represents one of the most highly educated organizations throughout the world and across all pay grades, Helland stated the Defense Department is working hard to counter the narrative that signing up with the military is an alternative to attending college or “an alternative of last hope.”

” We are working to reframe this story so that Americans understand that military service is a pathway to greater education and career opportunities while protecting democracy and the liberties we hold dear,” Helland stated.

She added that DOD is reframing this narrative. For instance, the department’s Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies program will quickly launch a campaign to develop familiarity with the American public about the value of military service. Plans are also continuing to have adult influencers promote for military service.