Most Would Encourage Military Service But Confidence in Armed Forces Remains Low, Survey Finds This year's survey found that 51% of respondents said they would encourage friends and family who were considering joining...
Marine Under Investigation After Publishing Memoir About Sexual Relationship with Young Potential Recruit The excerpts paint a disturbing picture of an adult man in a position of power within the Marine Corps engaging in sexual...
Army Should Focus More Recruiting Effort on TV Outreach Rather than Bonuses, New Study Says For an Army trying desperately to appeal to wired Gen Z to fill the ranks, television is still remarkably relevant.
Inside the Army's Mad Dash for Recruiters After Graduating Only Half the Number Needed A sudden and chaotic string of orders for NCOs to immediately fill 800 seats at the recruiting school has roiled the Army in...
The Army Suddenly, and Chaotically, Told Hundreds of Soldiers They Have to Be Recruiters Immediately Without warning, hundreds of noncommissioned officers were ordered via email to report to the recruiting school at Fort Knox...
An Air Force Academy Cadet Pleaded Guilty to Using Magic Mushrooms. Is DoD Ready for the Drug's Legal Rise? The incident is another example of how the military and the federal government are lagging behind states when it comes to...
The 42-Year-Old Airman: Air Force and Space Force Raise Max Age for Active-Duty Recruits Under a new policy change, active-duty Air Force and Space Force applicants can join up to the age of 42 -- meaning the...
Big Bonuses, Relaxed Policies, New Slogan: None of It Saved the Military from a Recruiting Crisis in 2023 Of the five Defense Department service branches, only two met their active-duty enlisted recruiting goals for fiscal 2023.
Air Force Touts Success of Program Allowing Recruits to Meet Drill Instructors Before Shipping Out to Boot Camp The Air Force says a program allowing recruits to connect online with a drill instructor before arriving at basic military...
In Latest Recruiting Bad News, the Navy Was 7,000 Sailors Short for 2023 Despite Big Bonuses, Relaxed Entry Rules The sea service said it managed to recruit 30,236 active-duty enlisted sailors this year -- 7,464 short of its goal of 37,700...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
'It's OK Not to Be OK': Special Operations Wing Orders Stand-Down After Roger Fortson's Police Killing The Air Force special operations wing in Florida where Senior Airman Roger Fortson served before he was shot and killed by...
VA Says It Can't Change New Urn, Plaque Benefit that Precludes Future Burials in National Veteran Cemeteries Both the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs and the National Funeral Directors Association lodged...
'Unspeakably Cruel': Army Ranger Sentenced for Murdering Security Guard in Washington State A U.S. Army Ranger formerly stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for beating a...