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, ...

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 ...

Air Force recruiters have made gains in new enlistments over the past few months, but the service still projects it will fall thousands of airmen short in critical units next year. To build on its ...

U.S. Air Force recruiting is surging, with its delayed entry program hitting its highest level since 2012, setting the ...

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

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Abdoulie Bah signed up 100 enlistees in fiscal year 2025. An Air Force Reserve recruiter has joined the service’s hall of fame for helping a staggering number of civilians decide ...

With tactical and leadership skills honed from decades in the Air Force, along with his wife's business savvy, Rick Bottoroff ...

Air Force recruiter Amber Metts has had a stellar — and exhausting — year. The 35-year-old master sergeant has signed up 84 recruits, putting in long days of school visits, chatting up prospects at ...

The Air Force last year fell well short of it recruiting goal, marking the first failure of its kind since 1999. This year turned out differently. The Air Force Recruiting Service’s commander, Brig.

Airmen who previously would have been disqualified for certain medical conditions are now eligible to join with medical waivers. (U.S. Air Force) The Air Force has expanded medical waivers to cover ...

Air Education and Training Command boss Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson administers the oath of enlistment during a recruiting ceremony at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 11, 2023, at National ...

Eighteen high school military recruits receive their oath of enlistment from Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson, commander of America’s First Corps, at Saint Martin University, Lacey, Wash., May 3, 2022. (Spc.