From Military.com: Amid a military-wide recruiting crisis, the Marine Corps said Friday that it surpassed its recruiting goal for the fiscal year by just over two dozen people, according to data shared by the service with Military.com on Friday, a stark decrease from last year’s numbers.
Officials said that the service sought to recruit 36,257 Marines this year, squeezing by with 36,286 total — a difference of just 29 new Devil Dogs. That’s a drop from the several hundred Marines recruited over the target number for fiscal 2023, even in the face of smaller recruiting goals this time around.
For new enlisted Marines, the margin of success was even smaller, with just one Marine pushing the service over its 30,500 enlisted recruit goal. For prior service reserve accessions — both officer and enlisted Marines — the Corps met its goal of 3,979 exactly.
The service surpassed its overall goal by 351 people in 2023 and this year faced a goal that was 3,000 people lower overall — still, it just squeaked by. The Corps has been one of the only branches — outside of the small Space Force — to reach its enlistment goals consistently in recent years as each of the services compete for a dwindling number of eligible applicants. . . . (read more on Military.com)
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