The Air Force already has enough potential recruits waiting for boot camp to meet more than half its 2026 recruiting goal.

After years of missing goals, the U.S. military’s recruiting slump has flipped. In FY2025 the Army hit its 61,000 target four ...

The Air Force and Space Force met their recruitment goals for fiscal year 2025 three months early, the services announced Monday. “When you have a winning team, people want to join!” Air Force Chief ...

The U.S. Air Force admits that it is struggling to meet its recruitment goals, but its leader isn’t panicking. Instead, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said the service is working on ways to ...

The U.S. Air Force is making changes to waiver policies to increase recruitment. The waiver adjustments will focus on several health matters, which should result in a greater number of applicants ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Air Force could fall short of its recruitment goal. “It’s likely that we could miss by 10 percent or more,” said Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, Air Force Recruiting ...

AURORA, Colorado -- Last year, the Air Force saw the writing on the wall and announced a projected 10% shortfall in its active-duty recruiting goals -- a prediction that ultimately proved true, ...

SAN ANTONIO – U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Brandon Carver, a production superintendent at the 330th Special Warfare Recruiting Squadron, said the Air Force recruiting effort isn’t necessarily in ...

U.S. airmen inspect the propellers of an MC-130J Commando II in support of exercise Freedom Shield 23 at Daegu Air Base, South Korea, March 13. (Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier/Air Force) Air Force ...

The Air Force will allow recruits to have a greater percentage of body fat in an effort to reach more Americans as the service expects to fall short of its recruiting goals this year. Male recruits ...

Airmen and guardians can now earn an Air and Space Achievement Medal for referring new recruits who join the Air Force or Space Force. (Airman 1st Class Regan Spinner/Air Force) Want to be on the fast ...