Marines Consulting Outside Experts for Fixes to Recruiting Challenge

[rangerrebew]

Marines Consulting Outside Experts for Fixes to Recruiting Challenge
By: Heather Mongilio
January 25, 2023 9:34 PM • Updated: January 25, 2023 11:17 PM

Recruits with Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, learn and apply rappelling techniques on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., October 31, 2022. US Marine Corps Photo

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Fifty years after the United States turned to the all-volunteer force, a group of Marines gathered to hear outside experts discuss how to man the force between now and 2040.

The Marine Corps, like the other branches, faces a competitive recruiting environment, which it is trying to overcome with a variety of talent management programs. But Wednesday, the Marines took a listening role as they sat through multiple panels at the Naval Institute’s Jack C. Taylor Conference Center. Later, Marine leaders would take what they heard and aim to turn it into action, Assistant Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said during his opening remarks.

The Marines have turned to new ideas through their Talent Management 2030, the personnel side of the service’s Force Design 2030. The latest plan stresses retention and maturing the force over a high turnover rate and recruiting the service has been known for in the past. Now, the Marines need to figure out how to continue to recruit enough new Marines each year.

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/25/marines-turning-to-outside-experts-for-fixes-to-recruiting-challenge

[rangerrebew]

Yes, sir, military recruiting is looking up.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Marines Consulting Outside Experts for Fixes to Recruiting Challenge
By: Heather Mongilio
January 25, 2023 9:34 PM • Updated: January 25, 2023 11:17 PM

Recruits with Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, learn and apply rappelling techniques on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., October 31, 2022. US Marine Corps Photo

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Fifty years after the United States turned to the all-volunteer force, a group of Marines gathered to hear outside experts discuss how to man the force between now and 2040.

The Marine Corps, like the other branches, faces a competitive recruiting environment, which it is trying to overcome with a variety of talent management programs. But Wednesday, the Marines took a listening role as they sat through multiple panels at the Naval Institute’s Jack C. Taylor Conference Center. Later, Marine leaders would take what they heard and aim to turn it into action, Assistant Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said during his opening remarks.

The Marines have turned to new ideas through their Talent Management 2030, the personnel side of the service’s Force Design 2030. The latest plan stresses retention and maturing the force over a high turnover rate and recruiting the service has been known for in the past. Now, the Marines need to figure out how to continue to recruit enough new Marines each year.

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/25/marines-turning-to-outside-experts-for-fixes-to-recruiting-challenge

Marine Corps has always had the lowest average age in the military.  We need fire-breathing young men full of toxic masculinity and aggression.  Substituting 27 year old Lance Corporals for 20 year olds is a loss.

[rangerrebew]

Young men with toxic masculinity?  My, oh my!  What will Gen. Berger say about that?

[sneakypete]

WTF does a bunch of geeks know about what it takes to inspire a young man or woman to enlist in the USMC?????

This is the equivalent of asking a worm to explain why birds fly.