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Air Force seeks retirees to come back to active duty
Up to 1,000 retirees can return to their former careers as the service seeks to plug a critical manning gap.
Austin ‘confident’ about meeting recruiting challenges
Austin acknowledged that recruiting is a focus area.
Surface navy expanding use of data in sailor detailing process
Though the SURFMEX data tool won't address overall manning levels, it's meant to ensure the right sailors are in the right jobs to boost ship readiness.
Navy ‘masking’ extent of manning shortfalls in the surface fleet, watchdog agency says
Such shortfalls nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020.
SWO boss: ‘Many challenges remain’ in fixing surface fleet’s manning problems
The effect of such manning shortages became apparent following two ship collisions that killed 17 sailors in 2017.
Gen. Brown: The Air Force isn’t getting bigger; to win wars it must must move airmen into undermanned jobs
"We’re going to have to make some unhappy people … in order to make sure we can get all the mission sets done," Brown told reporters.
Army goes to HPCON Charlie across all bases, Delta for contingency forces
HPCON Charlie requires installations to limit all access to essential personnel only and will limit the numbers of base access points.
By Kyle Rempfer
To help stem the tide of veteran suicides, VA must stop turning away patients
While suicides soar, the VA is turning eligible veterans away from care, says the author of this commentary.
By Margaret Kuzma
Air Force manning growth slows to a crawl in 2021 budget
Proposed manning growth in 2021 would fall far short of what Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein has previously said is needed.
Trump: ‘I’m sticking up for our armed forces’
He defended his recent controversial clemency moves by saying former President Barack Obama misused his pardon power.
Here’s how the 68,000-soldier recruiting goal broke down by MOS
Some career fields show significant manning shortages.
By Kyle Rempfer