Navy Recruiting Win!
Navy bounces back, surpasses recruiting goals for Fiscal Year 2024
By Diana Stancy
The Navy surpassed its recruiting goals for fiscal year 2024 after failing to hit its accession targets for the first time ever last year.
The Navy has lagged behind the other services in attracting new recruits, and at one point projected it would miss its recruiting targets by roughly 6,700 for fiscal 2024, which ended Monday.
But the service reported this week that it brought in a total of 40,978 new recruits in FY24 – up from its goal of 40,600 new sailors.
The feat comes with a caveat, as a crush of last-minute enlistments meant the Navy couldn’t get about 5,000 of its new recruits into basic training by the end of fiscal 2024.
“I’m excited that even though we can’t get everybody that we’ve signed up right now through boot camp by the end of this month, we now have a delayed entry pool for the beginning of next year, which will really prime the pump,” Chief of Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti told The Associated Press in an interview last week.
The Navy attributes this year’s success to “data-driven decision-making,” cutting down the time to process medical waivers and “expanding opportunities.”
Expanding opportunities for those who failed to complete High School or bother to earn a GED, more opportunities for “Cat 4” recruits- those scoring in the lower 30th percentile on the Armed Forces Qual Test- and increasing enlistment age to 41. With recruits like these it’s small wonder Big Navy very nearly got the numbers it needed. The 5K hard-chargers excluded this year but counted anyway? They will surely arrive at the local MEPS as agreed or Admiral Franchetti will be so disappointed.
Category: Big Navy, The Stupid is Strong
“cutting down the time to process medical waivers and ‘expanding opportunities.'”
Translation: Filling the ranks with the physically or mentally unfit who cannot be accepted without waiving requirements.
Sounds like a great solution to me. I’m sure there will be no negative consequences from it.
Certainly not with great leadership.
funny story, the skipper in the picture firing the M4 was relieved https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-photo-rifle-scope-mounted-backward
That no one stepped up to tactfully correct the skipper before he looked like an idiot tells me a lot.
I think that was the point!
yea the current starlink chiefs are a shining example of “acceptable requirements”
let’s check back in about 2 years and run the numbers on those who didn’t ship, and those that didn’t finish their initial enlistment.
Sh*tty economy and lowered standards works wonders!
yep, came here for this…
‘remember back in, when was it, 1978ish; the accounting folks were concerned about the high double digit number of first term enlistee’s getting out before their enlistments were up. It seemed a number of the discharged owed money to the Gov’t for being in the hole on leave taken vs leave accrued. I’m watching for it to happen again.
Must have been a Navy thing…Army said you got no leave, you TAKE no leave.
USAF. It was on the leave and earning statement – something about total amount of leave that would be accrued during the current enlistment vs the amount accrued and used – something like that. Some folks looked at it like an advance in pay, yea I’ll take it and pay it back tomorrow. It’s like a guy I knew who was granted 5 days leave in basic training to go to his father’s funeral. When he got back to Lackland he was 2.5 days in the hole for leave.
My OSUT company finished our 11B training right before Christmas exodus, so we all went home and then came back for our 11M training, then when we graduated, there was no leave as we were all in the hole. At least we graduated on a Thursday and didn’t fly until Sunday. The Drills cut us free until Sunday morning. I was shocked everyone showed up.
Don’t forget threating them with needing to work weekends
. https://news.usni.org/2023/06/30/navy-hits-pause-on-six-day-recruiter-work-week-after-sailors-protest#:~:text=Navy%20Recruiting%20Command%20ordered%20a,statement%20Friday%20issuing%20a%20pause.
So the Sea Services win big for FY2024.