Zoomers are gonna end us all: Military has serious recruiting problem
msn.com
" To put it bluntly, I’m worried we are now in the early days of a long-term threat to the all-volunteer force, with a small and declining number of Americans who are eligible and interested in military service,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, after hearing testimony this spring from service personnel leaders. “Every single metric tracking the military recruiting environment is going in the wrong direction.
after five months of the fiscal year, the Army reached only 23 percent of its active duty goal for new recruits.
Air Force officials welcomed 2,300 fewer recruits in the first quarter of this fiscal year than the previous year.
The Navy expects fewer deferred entry candidates this year than anticipated, which may lead to future personnel problems.
The top manpower officer in the Marine Corps, which traditionally meets its recruiting goals, told a Senate hearing in April that 2022 is “arguably the most challenging recruiting year since the inception of the all-volunteer force.”
The services are responding to these challenges with cash bonuses for signing on — some as high as $50,000.
“We’ve never offered $50,000 to join the Army,” said Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, who heads up Army Recruiting Command.
“We’re in a search for talent just like corporate America and other businesses. … We’re trying to match incentives for what resonates — for example, financial incentives.” "
Zoomers are too busy playing COD and watching porn than to serve their country.
This may not seem like much now, but we are looking at a country that can no longer recruit people into their army and that is troubling.
