In 2019, the Army plans to open up more assignments for female officers at Forts Stewart, Drum, Riley, Polk, and in Italy, Seamands said. That year the first women graduated field artillery training as cannon crew members and the first female officers were accepted into the infantry branch. The Army first opened positions in combat-arms battalions to women in 2016. “Currently, 80 female officers are assigned to infantry or armor positions at Forts Hood, Bragg, Carson, Bliss, and Campbell.” “To date, the Army has successfully accessed and transferred more than 1,000 women into the previously closed occupations of infantry, armor, and field artillery,” he said. “Longitudinal studies on OPAT are being conducted by the Army Research Institute to measure OPAT’s effect on morale, cohesion, and readiness.”įurther, Soldiers or recruits that meet the standards set by a military occupational specialty should have the opportunity to serve in that career field, regardless of their gender, he said. “Passing the OPAT ensures new Soldiers, regardless of gender, can succeed in an assigned specialty and verifies their readiness for training,” Seamands said. The Army has also made improvements to the way it assesses and trains the “right Soldier for the right job,” Seamands said.įor starters, the Occupational Physical Assessment Test, or OPAT, continues to provide the Army with a physical-assessment screening tool for both officer and enlisted accessions. Further, the force assigned $50 million to “add, relocate, or improve recruiting centers in more than 200 critical markets,” Seamands said.įurther, the Army made improvements to the “” website, all while establishing effective communication practices on each of its social media platforms, he added. To entice people to join, the Army has allocated $450 million toward active-duty bonuses. are eligible to serve in the Army, and only one in eight has a propensity to enlist in the military, making Army accessions a challenging and resource-intensive activity,” he said. “Today, only 29 percent of 17 to 24-year-olds in the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command assumed oversight over all accessions to help counter a tough recruiting market. For example, the Army added almost 800 recruiters to the force over the past year and the U.S.
To help bolster this year’s numbers, recruiting has developed a “total Army approach,” Seamands said. Thomas Seamands, the Army’s deputy chief of staff, G-1. “The Army increased its entry standards last summer in a number of areas, making clear its commitment to ‘quality over quantity,’” said Lt.
WASHINGTON - The Army is on the path to meet its fiscal year 2019 recruiting mission: to bring 68,000 Soldiers into the active component, 15,600 into the Army Reserve, and 39,000 into the National Guard, said the Army’s G-1.Īt the same time, the Army is maintaining its high entry standards while further increasing positions for women in brigade combat teams.
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