In the face of polls showing fewer and fewer young Americans interested in serving in the military and headlines highlighting issues within the services, senior Air Force and Space Force leaders gave impassioned pleas for Airmen and Guardians to challenge existing narratives about military service ...
The Air Force now has a single website to manage all its recruiting needs, covering Active Duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve recruiting. Legacy sites goang.com and afreserve.com will now direct users to the central airforce.com site. By approaching recruiting centrally as a ...
The 2023 National Defense Authorization bill passed the House Dec. 8 and the Senate is poised to pass it in the next few weeks, paving the way for a 4.6 percent pay raise, a housing allowance increase, the elimination of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and ...
Potential Airmen and Guardians who test positive for the high-producing compound in marijuana during their entrance physical may still be able to serve, thanks to a new pilot program announced by the Department of the Air Force. Under the two-year program, recruits who test positive ...
A year ago, Air Force leaders were celebrating an unusually successful year in recruiting. For the first time in more than half a decade, the Air Force Recruiting Service was on pace to hit all of its goals—Active Duty, Reserve, Guard, and Space Force. Twelve months ...
Facing a tough recruiting environment that Air Force Recruiting Service commander Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas recently likened to a “week-to-week dogfight,” the Air Force has expanded its list of jobs that are eligible for initial enlistment bonuses, hoping to entice more potential Airmen. All told, ...
More future Airmen will be eligible for enlistment bonuses in fiscal 2022, as the Air Force expands its Initial Enlistment Bonus program to include more skillsets. The expansion of the IEB includes six new Air Force Specialty Codes, with bonuses of $3,000 for four-year contracts ...
Alex Wagner, the openly gay nominee to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, said in his confirmation hearing that he'll make expanding diversity in the ranks a priority if confirmed. Wagner said he's also willing to look at taking ...
The Air Force Recruiting Service is on target to meet its goals for the entire department, the AFRS commander said Sept. 22. At the same time, trends indicate a challenging future for the Air and Space Forces as they go after the next generation of ...
Over the weekend, millions of people tuning in to watch the pregame show for the NBA Finals also caught the premiere of the latest Air Force recruiting commercial, featuring Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. The 30-second ad, titled “Helmet,” features Brown delivering ...
Two recruiting exhibits debut in 2021 that are meant to leave more of an impression on prospective Air Force recruits than a TV commercial. Meanwhile, having announced new diversity targets for recruitment in 2020, the Air Force unveiled Tuskegee Airmen-themed paint schemes for two race ...
A new Air Force Recruiting Service program will deploy USAF and Space Force generals as ambassadors for their services to help underrepresented youth envision a future for themselves in the Total Force. The “GO Inspire” program, which launched Jan. 1, will match general officers “with ...