WASHINGTON May 2 It will take more than a year for the US to decide a problem with a shortage of recruits for military service, said US Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth.
“It will take more than a year to restore our recruitment,” she said Tuesday at a hearing in the US Senate.
At the same time, Wormut noted that at present the difficulties with attracting recruits to serve in the US Army are gradually being resolved, although the goal of recruiting 65,000 recruits this year will not be achieved.
In January, Rep. Adam Smith, a member of the US House of Representatives, acknowledged that the US Army is facing a recruiting problem. According to Smith, who previously chaired the House Armed Services Committee, one of the main reasons for the shortage of recruits was the pandemic. Recruiters were deprived of the opportunity to replenish the army ranks in «traditional ways» through work in educational institutions.
According to Fox News, in order to solve the problem of a shortage of recruits, the US Army has launched a pilot training course for future soldiers, designed for those willing who are not physically fit for military service.