Navy's Personnel Boss Argues Dropping High School Diploma Requirement Has 'Minimal' Risk Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman said the change has long been in the works and is about offering Americans opportunities as much as...
The Military Recruiting Outlook Is Grim Indeed. Loss of Public Confidence, Political Attacks and the Economy Are All Taking a Toll. Americans still think highly of veterans, but a majority would recommend against joining the military, particularly in the...
What Recruits Should Know About Physically Preparing to Join the Military Consider joining once you hit a certain level of physical performance and activity.
Coast Guard Announces New 'Talent Acquisition' Rating to Address Recruiting Crisis After failing to meet numbers the past four years, the service is converting recruiting into a career position.
The Army Recruiting Ad Featuring a Soldier with 2 Moms Just Got Harder to Find. Here's Why. The series of ads focused on individual, personable, real service members from diverse backgrounds as a way to appeal to the...
First Wave of Army Noncommissioned Officers Gets Automatic Promotions for Completing Recruiting School Of the 145 soldiers who attended the Army Recruiter Course, 56 NCOs were automatically promoted from sergeant to staff...
The Navy's Personnel Boss Is Confident Data Can Fix the Service's Recruiting Woes The Navy's top personnel officer said Wednesday that the service is short about 22,000 junior sailors at sea, and the service...
Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall...
Army Opens New Warrant Officer Recruiting Roles as It Struggles to Fill the Ranks The Army opened up applications for its new "talent acquisition technician" role for warrant officers as part of its efforts...
After Long Fight, Army Recruiter Is Released from Service So She Can Return to Marine Corps Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Julianna Pinder will report to duty Jan. 8 at the Marine Corps Recruiting RSS East in Aurora...
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Plot Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, was commanding its forces in Europe and...
Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a...
Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela President Donald Trump did not say how many people were killed in the third strike.