Here are some of the ways the Marines are trying to improve retention
Philip Athey
Mon, November 15, 2021, 7:59 AM·9 min read
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The Marine Corps wants to ditch its high turnover rate and its spot as the youngest service in the Department of Defense, said Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger.
The Marine Corps currently, by choice, discharges 75 percent of first term Marines every year, recruiting roughly 36,000 new Marines to fill the ranks.
It’s a process that the Marine Corps once bragged about, but Berger now calls it unsustainable.
“We’re the anomaly and we brag about it, and I think it’s worked for us,” Berger told reporters in early November. “It will not work for us going forward.”
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