Army Calls Up Soldiers Last Minute, Drops Requirements For Recruiting Duty In Shortage-Induced PanicMicaela Burrow
Investigative Reporter, Defense
November 01, 2023 5:23 PM ET
The Army scrambled to fix an unexpected shortfall in its recruiter force, ordering some soldiers to relocate and report to recruiter school by Nov. 6, service officials confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
In addition, the Army is lowering requirements and offering no-questions-asked promotions for those required to ship last minute.
“I’d like to first of all apologize to the soldiers and the families that received this last-minute notification. That mistake is mine,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Stitt told the DCNF.
The Army notified some non-commissioned officers (NCOs) they’d been assigned to become recruiters less than two weeks before they would have to ship out to Fort Knox for training, the service’s personnel head confirmed on Wednesday.
An unforeseen shortage of volunteers to fill 800 slots at the U.S. Army Recruiting & Retention College by the end of the calendar year triggered the Army’s Recruiting Command (USAREC) to send out last-minute orders, Lt. Gen. Douglas Stitt told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Wednesday. Some NCOs were notified possibly as early as Friday, and to make sure slots for the next class of future recruiters are filled, USAREC lowered entrance standards and rolled out last-minute incentives, officials said.
“We discovered recently just looking at the class of non-commissioned officers coming out, rotating out of Recruiting Command and what was projected to go in the losses exceeded the gains. In order to maintain momentum that we’re seeing within the recruiting force that we’re starting to set the conditions for transformation we made a last-we made the decision this week to bump up the numbers,” Stitt said.
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