The Army found a way to make recruiting duty even worse
When you're so good it hurts.
BY MAX HAUPTMAN | PUBLISHED JUN 14, 2022 9:00 AM
As just about anyone in the military will tell you, recruiting duty isn’t the easiest assignment. And it apparently isn’t getting any better if you’re actually good at the job. According to Brian McGovern, a spokesperson with Army Recruiting Command, the service is now “extending the recruiting tour of selected high-performing” recruiters; 267 of them, to be exact.
In other words, if you’re good at recruiting — which is generally a temporary duty lasting 3 years — you may get rewarded with not being able to go to a new assignment.
“The Army is facing greater challenges in meeting recruiting missions in the current Post-COVID Recruiting environment, so extending experienced high-performing Recruiting NCOs will aid us as we work to meet the challenges presented in this environment,” McGovern told Task & Purpose.
While recruiters often take some flak for promising would-be soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines a paid vacation and a cool job, only for them to discover that their expectations did not match with reality — it’s hardly an easy job, especially these days, with long hours the norm and challenges abound.
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