SOCOM: High Optempo Creates Recruiting Challenges In Special Operations Community

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SOCOM: High Optempo Creates Recruiting Challenges In Special Operations Community
By: John Grady
May 4, 2017 3:23 PM


Some special operations units have found themselves in an “unsustainable” deployment tempo, with warfighters deployed for six months, home for six months and then heading back out the door again, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee today.

Due to the high operating tempo, “we’re having some challenges for recruiting” as the Army downsizes its active force, SOCOM commander Army Gen. Raymond Thomas told lawmakers. The command is capped at 69,000 members, with members from all services but drawing the most warfighters from the Army.

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