Be All That You Can Be Is Not A Recruitment Solution

The slogan can't make up for the barriers

The American military is facing a huge recruitment problem. Here is its genesis:

“What it takes to get in the Army is, quite frankly, a lot of fraud and perjury,” one recruiter said.

But this tacit tradition — technically a crime — largely stopped in 2022, the same year the military’s recruiting numbers fell precipitously and today’s recruiting crisis cam…