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Recruitment rises 12.5% despite ongoing challenges
November 1, 2024 — The Defense Department's armed services branches recruited 12.5% more people in fiscal year 2024 than in the year prior despite a challenging and disinterested recruiting market... MORE

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Department of the Air Force launches coaching website
September 18, 2023 — At the Department of the Air Force's Coaching site, members can explore how to find and become a professional coach... MORE

Lt. Col. Wendy Cook, 49th Health Care Operations Squadron outgoing commander, receives a final salute from 49th HCOS members

DOD must be employer of choice to meet manpower goals, officials say
June 7, 2023 — To meet its recruitment and retention goals, the Defense Department must make volunteering in the military attractive, especially in this era of low unemployment, DOD officials said. ... MORE

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Deployed pen pal inspires future Army leader
January 23, 2023 — Receiving a letter from a pen pal as a child can build a memory that lasts a lifetime. For U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Katie Glover, an assistant professor for military science at North Carolina State Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, her pen pal was the start of her love for the U.S. Army... MORE

Official portrait of Lt. Gen. John R. Evans, Jr., the Commanding General of U.S. Army North (Fifth Army), headquartered at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

CORBT summit provides joint services insights on recruit basic training
November 17, 2017 — Representatives from all five branches of the U. S. armed forces, members from British Armed Forces and Australian Defence Force, held a Council on Recruit Basic Training summit Nov. 8-10 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland... MORE

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost, commander of the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, speaks during the Council on Recruit Basic Training Nov. 8, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The purpose of CORBT is to address common issues across the joint services in recruit basic military training and technical training with the goal of sharing ideas, lessons learned and procedures to improve entry-level enlisted training programs.