The US Army recruits dissatisfaction, and the salary of private companies is high

Jimu News reporter Huang Jiaqi

Intern Zhao Wenbo

According to ABC News reported on July 20, recently, the six major arms in the United States have emergency sources, and the army forces who are facing the "recruitment wasteland" are currently only half of the recruitment plan. The U.S. military attributed this to the laborer market tension and the rising salary of private companies after the new crown epidemic.

American Army Chinese (Picture Source: New York Times)

On July 19, local time, at the Hearing of the House of Representatives's Military Group Committee, Joseph Martin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Army, reported to Congress that the army recruitment still faces a huge challenge this year. It is expected that the total scale of the active force will be 10,000 less than expected Soldier.

Military officials blame the labor market tight after the new crown epidemic, and the salary of private companies has continued to rise.

The total scale of the army, the so -called "final force", was achieved by retaining soldiers or recruiting new soldiers. As of September this year, the US retention rate in the US 2022 fiscal year was higher than the original plan, but the situation of recruiting recruits was very different.

Randy Farrell, a spokesman for the US Army Minister, said that according to the final troops of 476,000 people announced in March, the target of 60,000 soldiers recruited by the Army in fiscal in 2022 was 60,000. But as of mid -July, the Army recruited less than 30,000 new soldiers, only half of the goal.

California Democratic Representative Jessh Speyer said the decline in the number of recruits recruiting recruits in the 2023 fiscal year will be even more serious.

Speel said: "The Army now reduces the final troops from 473,000 to 445,000 to 452,000, a decrease of 21,000 to 28,000, which is shocking." This is shocking. "

Subsequently, Joseph Martin, deputy chief of staff of the US Army, confirmed the figure and stated that the Army was considering increasing the goal of re -increasing the number of troops.

Martin said: "After the epidemic, we face unprecedented challenges in the market environment and labor. Private companies have changed incentives to continuously increase salary, which has also increased the difficulty of military recruitment in this regard."

At the same time, other US arms are also facing the challenge of recruitment.

In April of this year, at the hearing of the US Armed Forces Group Committee, Gilbert Sinauos, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense, who was in charge of personnel, claimed that the department was trying to recruit technical and innovative talents. The influence of military and civilian differences has increased, which greatly increases the difficulty of recruitment.

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