The U.S. Air Force will fall short of its active-duty recruiting goals this year, something that has not happened in more than two decades, Secretary Frank Kendall said.
"We're almost to the end of the fiscal year, and the expectation is we're going to come in short about 10%," Kendall told Military.com on Monday, adding that the service plans to address long-standing recruiting problems so it doesn't happen again in 2024.
"Currently, the active duty is projected to miss [its] goal by about 10%," Leslie Brown, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Recruiting Service, said."We are cautiously optimistic though as we head into FY24. We've seen some positive trends such as the positive growth of our DEP [delayed-entry program], which is double what it was this time last year. It's still lower than we want it to be, but we are continuing to see increases.
Some Republican lawmakers, such as Sen. Eric Schmitt , have blamed the falling numbers on the Biden administration's push for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the armed services and claimed it has harmed recruitment challenges. Acting Undersecretary of the Air Force Kristyn Jones said in a March congressional hearing that the military was focused on trying to retain its forces, not reach a quota.
News of the recruitment crisis the U.S. is facing comes just weeks after China announced it enrolled a record 17,000 high school graduates. China's announcement comes as tensions mount between the U.S. and China over its presence in the South China Sea and dominance in the Indo-Pacific region. China's total recruitment intake for 2023 is 2,000 more new recruits than it saw last year.
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