Gen. James McConville, the Army chief of staff, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that preliminary estimates suggest the Army will recruit more than 50,000 soldiers this ...

The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis.

The U.S. Army met its annual recruiting target of 61,000 in the first week of June, four months ahead of the scheduled Sept. 30 deadline, after putting in place new initiatives to boost recruitment.

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Army recently announced it shattered previous recruiting records, with December 2024 being the most productive December in 15 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The arrest of actor Jonathan Majors has upended the Army’s newly launched advertising campaign that was aimed at reviving the service’s struggling recruiting numbers.

Fort Huachuca soldiers also will appear in the commercial, part of an effort to entice native-speaking Afghans living in America to join the U.S. Army as translators.

After several dismal recruiting years, Army officials announced the service has exceeded its recruiting goals for this fiscal year. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth made the announcement Wednesday ...

In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2024, the Army met its recruiting goal of 55,000 and began to rebuild its delayed entry pool. About 24 percent of those recruits came out of the prep course.

Partly in response to the recruiting shortfalls, U.S. Army leaders slashed the size of the force by about 24,000, or almost 5%. They said many of the cuts were in already vacant jobs.

The Army has met its active duty recruiting goal for 2025, marking the earliest the service has reached its annual enlistment target in more than a decade, service officials said.

Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, commander of Army Recruiting Command, told reporters that the Army’s average recruit is now 22 years, 4 months old and still “going up.” ...

Today's youth no longer watch commercial television as much as past generations, said Maj. Gen. Frank Muth, head of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, or USAREC, also at the press conference.