Washington Post: Military recruitment lapses lead to ‘challenges to national security’
“R and R” doesn’t just mean rest and relaxation in the military, not when the Pentagon “is facing its most challenging recruitment environment in 50 years.”
That’s the assessment of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the main federal watchdog, in a report that frames another military R and R — recruitment and retention — as one of the critical “challenges to national security.
That’s the assessment of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the main federal watchdog, in a report that frames another military R and R — recruitment and retention — as one of the critical “challenges to national security.”
Or as Gil Cisneros, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, put it: “We are facing some headwinds.”
GAO’s “national security snapshot” is just two pages, far shorter than most audits, but it summarizes other work by the watchdog that revealed three critical shortcomings in the Defense Department’s struggles to maintain a fully staffed military. GAO found the Pentagon:
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WNU Editor: I agree that with this analysis that many of today's young have different priorities .... The Army Is Recruiting—Gen Z Just Isn’t Biting (The Nation).
The GAO report on the US military recruitment efforts (and problems) is here .... DOD ACTIVE-DUTY RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CHALLENGES (GAO).
2 comments:
No one wants to fight for this administration
Nobody wants to fight and perhaps die under a rainbow flag with trannie officers/non-comms over them. This is where the armed forces under the Democrats are going and everyone knows it.
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