“This is indeed the toughest recruiting environment that we have faced since 1974, the advent of the all-volunteer force,” said Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, Air Force Recruiting Service’s commander.
“It’s likely that we could miss by 10 percent or more,” said Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, Air Force Recruiting Service’s commander. “And by the way, that accounts to about 3,000 airmen roughly or an equivalent of a fighter wing.”It doesn’t help that the Air Force drained its Delayed Entry Program pool over the past fiscal year in a bid to get enough recruits into the training pipeline at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
A ceremony Tuesday at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph was a celebration of excellence, but Thomas took the opportunity to remind the Air Force’s best 18 recruiters and thousands elsewhere of the challenge they face in the coming six months. The top recruiters, who included Tech Sgt. Mario Soriano, walked with their spouses Tuesday morning under an arch of sabers provided by the Randolph High School JROTC Saber Team at Fleenor Auditorium in Randolph’s Taj Mahal.At 31, Soriano shipped 91 recruits to basic training in San Antonio, far above the 30 to 50 people a typical recruiter signs up in the course of a year.
Only one in every five military-age young people is qualified to serve in the first place. Some are overweight or suffer from medical problems that exclude them from service, while others have been drug abusers or in trouble with the law.
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