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Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges

The Defense Department’s armed services branches hired 12.5% more individuals in financial year 2024 than in the year prior despite a tough and indifferent recruiting market.

Katie Helland Director of Military Accessions Policy Katie Helland speaks to members of the media throughout a panel on 2025 recruiting objectives at the Pentagon, Oct. 30, referall.us 2024.
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While speaking at a multiservice panel on 2025 hiring concerns at the Pentagon earlier today, Director of Military Accession Policy Katie Helland stated that the services increased the variety of employees from 200,000 in FY 2023 to 225,000 in FY 2024, which ended September 30.

Additionally, she said, the services had a 35% boost in composed agreements, and the active parts’ postponed entry program started FY 2025 with a 10% bigger pool.

» [The Office of the Secretary of Defense] and the services will continue to construct off the momentum that we have actually acquired in 2024,» Helland stated.

» Nevertheless,» she continued, «we require to stay carefully positive about the future recruiting operations as we continue to hire in a market that has low youth tendency to serve, minimal familiarity with military chances, a competitive labor market and a declining eligibility among young adults.»

Helland elaborated on those obstacles by explaining that, for the very first time since the metric has been tracked, most young people have actually never considered the choice of serving in the armed force.

The reasons behind that are multifold, Helland said. Young Americans have fewer ties to buddies or member of the family who have actually served in the military. There is a declining existence of veterans in our society. Approximately 77% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 require some type of waiver to serve due to any variety of disqualifications.

To counter such challenges, Helland stated the armed force has actually executed a medical pilot program that permits employees to sign up with the armed force without a waiver for numerous health conditions — provided they satisfy particular requirements. Additionally, there are service member prep courses that prepare employees to fulfill the laborious requirements of military service. Moreover, DOD is seeking to reconnect with youth and their influencers by showing them the worth of serving.

» The next generation of Americans to serve need to understand that there has never been a much better time for them to select military service,» Helland stated.

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 seek a larger purpose in their lives and desire jobs where they have greater participation in decision-making and can develop a direct tangible effect,» she continued. «Military service provides all of this.»

Explaining that U.S. military service uses more than 250 occupations which it represents one of the most highly informed organizations throughout the world and throughout all pay grades, Helland stated the Defense Department is striving to counter the story that signing up with the armed force is an alternative to attending college or «a choice of last option.»

» We are working to reframe this narrative so that Americans comprehend that military service is a pathway to higher education and career opportunities while defending democracy and the flexibilities we love,» Helland said.

She added that DOD is reframing this story. For instance, the department’s Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies program will quickly release a project to construct familiarity with the American public about the worth of military service. Plans are likewise proceeding to have adult influencers promote for military service.