NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Air Force will miss its annual enlisted recruiting goal across all three components for the first time since 1999, as waning interest in military service and administrative ...

The Pentagon ended fiscal year 2023 on a sour note for military recruiting, falling tens of thousands of new enlisted troops short of its goal in what it called “the toughest recruitment year for the ...

The Air Force is on track to meet or exceed its annual recruiting goal a year after experiencing a dismal 10% shortfall in new active-duty enlistments, according to the service’s recruiting leader. As ...

After one of its worst recruiting years in decades, the Air Force is raising its maximum age for new recruits to 42. The decision took effect Oct. 24 and applies to new active-duty officers and ...

Georgia Air National Guard recruiters Tech. Sgt. Fabian Colorado and Tech. Sgt. Lauren Trail, right, interact with a group of students during a recruiting event in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sept. 17, ...

Lt. Col. Noel Colls, flight surgeon for the Air Force's "Thunderbirds" air demonstration squadron, administers the oath of enlistment to new recruits during the Wings Over Houston Airshow in Houston ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airmen and Guardians can now receive promotions and medals for getting people to sign up to join their services. The move comes as the Air Force grapples with its toughest recruiting year in recent ...

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 ...

When Air Force recruiter Greg Butler arrived at a recent event in Springfield, Missouri, he found that the space reserved for his recruiting booth was right next to a display from a local gym. And it ...