Recruiting Healthy, Fit, Professional Force Is Priority
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
The Army hopes to overcome recruiting challenges by freshening its sales pitch, empowering recruiters with better intelligence on their targets and snatching up prospects before the other services can sign them.
Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, who is the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command commanding general, describes the recruiting mission like a battle plan. “We are going to go into these areas and we are going to win,†he declared in Jan. 7 remarks at an event hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare. He spoke as part of the Rogers Strategic Issues Forum.
“We often think of national security in terms of external threats from near-peer competitors who are closing capabilities gaps with America’s armed forces,†Townsend said, but the threat he’s now focused on “comes from within.â€
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