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The Real Reason the U.S. Navy’s Recruiting Numbers Are Surging

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy's recruiting is surging, signing up over 44,000 sailors in FY2025—its best year in over two decades. -While the Trump administration credits a "Trump bump" in ...
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The military is running out of teenagers to recruit — and old-school methods to reach them are failing

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Military recruiting is on the upswing, but many recruiters say it's never been harder to get young people interested in service.
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The President’s Inbox Recap: The U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis

The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. This week Jim sat down with Nora Bensahel, visiting professor of Strategic Studies and senior fellow at the Merrill Center at the Johns Hopkins ...
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Defense forum panelists discuss how to maintain recruiting success, improve retention

The U.S. military is coming off a big recruiting win in 2025, surpassing the 146,473 new enlistees from 2024. Now top military and political leaders want to determine how to keep the trend going and ...
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Inside the clever marketing overhaul that turned the US Army into a recruitment powerhouse

While global militaries struggle to attract young recruits, the US Army is running a successful marketing operation from Chicago. The recruitment code has been cracked by enlisting ad executives and ...