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[Heike Fallago]

I'd like to call the hearing to order. Good morning. The committee meets today to discuss the recruiting challenges facing the United States military. I would like to welcome our witnesses, Mr. Gabriel Camarillo, Undersecretary of the Army; Mr. Erik Raven, Undersecretary of the Navy; and Ms. Kristyn Jones, performing the duties of the Undersecretary of the Air Force.

Thank you for your leadership and for joining us today. The United States military faces the most challenging recruiting environment in the 50 year history of the all-volunteer force. As America continues to recover from two decades of war and a global pandemic, the military service are having significant difficulties filling their ranks.

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Last year, the force fell tens of thousands of recruits short of its goals and the same appears likely this year. There are several factors contributing to the situation. To begin, America has seen record low unemployment for several years. Even in the best of times, a strong economy and low national unemployment have always made military recruiting difficult.

Further, the number of young Americans qualified or interested in military service is declining. Only 23 percent of Americans age 17 to 24 are eligible to serve. As among other things, national obesity rates continue to rise, and standardized mental aptitude test scores of individuals continue to fall. To compound this issue, less than 10 percent of the population have a propensity to serve, the lowest point in decades.

Additionally, unlike the days of the draft when virtually every American knew about the military, today, most young Americans do not know anyone personally who has served in the military, and they are unaware of many of the benefits of military service. The military services are starting to look like a family business where children of service members and veterans enlist at far higher rates than their peers who do not come from a military background.

Also, as our military facilities are inclusive based in fewer and fewer states, our personnel have become less geographically representative of the nation. The smaller the military's footprint becomes, the greater perception grows of a divide between civilian and military cultures. Our military should reflect all of America and society, not stand apart from it. Last year, the Department of Defense conducted an extensive survey of young Americans to better understand why they were overwhelmingly uninterested in military service.

By a wide margin, the top three reasons the respondents cited were the same across all the services, fear of death or injury, worries about PTSD and separation from friends and family. We know that our service members have sacrificed much in the defense of our nation, but we also know that widespread fears of death, injury and PTSD are out of sync with the experience of most veterans.

Survey and census data show that the overwhelming majority of veterans report positive experiences in the military. Americans and veterans are more civically engaged, earn more money and have more education than those who have not served. In short, military service is a social good. It benefits the nation, and it benefits those who serve.

Currently, the service is our challenge to convince young people to join the military. Once they don the uniform, however, service members are more likely than ever to re-enlist and stay in the military by choice. Retention is at an all-time high, even as recruiting faces significant headwinds. The many benefits of military service are the results of a decades long campaign to attract and retain the best talent our country has to offer.

The military services offer education and training in emerging fields like cyber and artificial intelligence, unparalleled family support programs, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, pathways to higher education, both in and out of uniform and the best leadership training and experience in the world.

And I want to briefly return to the issue of young Americans propensity to serve. As mentioned, the vast majority of the population chooses not to serve due to concerns about perceived physical and mental risks and separation from loved ones. But in an effort to understand more about the current recruiting environment, the Army has been conducting frequent pulse surveys to gather more opinions for potential recruits.

In its most recent study, one issue that did not deter recruits from enlisting [Inaudible] numbers was the idea of the military being woke. I mentioned this term only because it was used in the survey, but I have yet to hear it defined as an actual policy or articulated position. Only a small fraction, five percent of respondents said that they felt the military places too much emphasis on wokeness.

And let me be clear, diversity and inclusion strengthen our military. By every measure, America's military is more lethal and ready than it has ever been. It is also more diverse and inclusive than ever before, and this is not a coincidence. Our military looks more and more like the nation it represents whether in race, gender, creed, sexuality or any other measure.

This is the right direction as America's strength is its diversity. But greater diversity requires greater understanding within the ranks, and understanding requires learning and regular training. The fundamental bond that ensures unit cohesion is the commitment by every member to protect his or her fellow service members, whoever they may be. This is a state of mind and heart that must be nurtured by training and example.

Our greatest military asset is its people. We cannot succeed if we do not have adequate numbers of men and women of sufficiently high character contributing to our national defense. During today's hearing, I would like to know our witnesses' ideas for increasing the number of young Americans eligible for and interested in service.

And as a side, I think we all know around here, as we talk to every business in our community, their major complaint is they can't find good workers, which is the complaint the Department of Defense has right now. And in addition, as I talked to police departments around my state, they're having a very difficult time recruiting police officers.

In many cases, it's similar to our military. There is a fear now that they could be harmed as a police officer, and it would disrupt their family significantly. So this is not a unique issue with the military. I want to thank our witnesses again. I look forward to your testimonies. Now, let me recognize the ranking member, Senator Wicker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here and I look forward to this hearing. Since October 1973, we have referred to the US military as an all-volunteer force. To put it another way, for the past 50 years, our armed services have been filled by recruits and today recruiting is not going well.

The military must devote considerable resources to attract young Americans to wear the uniform. Recruiting success is not easy, nor is it guaranteed. Without sufficient numbers of high quality recruits, the modern American military cannot maintain its high readiness standards critical to our national security.

Although the military has experienced intermittent recruiting problems in its history, today's challenge is unprecedented. The previous low watermark for recruiting occurred in the late 1970s when the services collectively achieved 90 percent of their goals. This year, if trends continue, our armed forces are projected to achieve roughly 75 percent of their goals of active duty recruiting goals, some 15 percentage points lower than the 70s. And these goals are much smaller than they were in 1979. The three largest services will all miss their individual recruiting objectives, and the army will miss the target for the third time in five years.

During the Carter administration, in order to preserve manning levels the military lowered recruitment standards and retained people who should have been let go. This resulted in a predictable erosion of military readiness. The only thing that saved the volunteer military was the increased defense budgets during the administration of President Reagan.

We should not repeat the mistakes of those earlier years during this administration. The recruiting challenge today is complicated, as the chair just outlined. A small and shrinking minority of young Americans are both qualified and interested in military service. Interest in military service has never been especially high, but today, only about 10 percent of young people consider putting on the uniform.

This is the lowest rate on record. There are no easy solutions to this problem, but we know what does not work. Lowering recruitment standards today leads to morale, discipline and readiness problems tomorrow. The Army learned this lesson in the 1980s and again in the early 2000s. Despite this history, the Navy seems intent on reducing standards to increase recruiting.

This year, 20 percent of the Navy's recruits will come from the lowest category of scores on the Armed Forces qualification test. I would like Mr. Raven to explain why the Navy is following this path. The Department of Defense must put at least as much effort into solving the recruiting crisis as it has into other initiatives like extremism, diversity, equity and inclusion and abortion.

These initiatives are at best a distraction. At worst, they dissuade young people from enlisting. They suggest to the American people that the military has a problem with diversity and extremism. In truth, the military is the greatest civil rights program in the history of the world, and the data support this claim.

A recent peer reviewed study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics finds, and I quote, Army service closes nearly all of the Black White earnings gap, unquote. The distinguished chair of this committee just said, and I agree with him, that our military is more diverse than ever before. A recent peer reviewed Quarterly Journal of Economics found enlisting in the Army increases cumulative earnings, post-secondary education, attendance, home ownership and marriage.

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