Higher rates of obesity are complicating an already dire recruiting situation for the U.S. Army, with overweight recruits costing the branch millions in injury care.
is currently facing a recruiting crisis unseen since the switch to an all-volunteer model nearly four decades ago, with the Army being particularly hard-hit by the problem. During fiscal year 2022, the Army fell 15,000 soldiers short of meeting its recruiting target.
"People that get lost in initial entry training is about 10%. That may not sound high, but when you figure in all the effort that the Army went through to recruit those people … it typically costs at least $30,000 per recruit to get them signed up," Spoehr said."It just further contributes to an inability to recruit the number of people that we need for the military. That in turn translates into a weaker military.
"It's a costly kind of thing … we have to pay these people to be there, and we have to house them and feed them," Spoehr said."But in the end, it's working out."
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