US U.S. Military Has Started Recalling Retirees Due to Recruiting Crisis - The U.S. Army recently announced that it is cutting thousands of positions. Authorized troop levels will now be an estimated 470,000 by fiscal year 2029, down 24,000 from its 494,000 soldiers.

The U.S. Army Publishing Directorate released the ALARACT 017/2024, titled, “Utilization of the Army Retiree Recall Program.”

The document cites Executive Order 13223 from the Bush administration in 2001.

A retiree recall is a “retired Soldier who is ordered to active duty (AD) from the Retired Reserve or the retired list under 10 USC 688/688a, 12301(a), or 12301(d). Per AR 601-10, Recalled retiree Soldiers must be aligned to a valid vacant AC requirement that matches the grade and skill of the retiree before he or she may be recalled to AD,” according to the document. “The retiree population will be utilized as a last resort to fill Active Component vacant requirements.”

The ALARACT 017/2024 comes as the U.S. military is experiencing a recruitment crisis.

The U.S. Army recently announced that it is cutting thousands of positions. Authorized troop levels will now be an estimated 470,000 by fiscal year 2029, down 24,000 from its 494,000 soldiers.

“While making these investments and adding formations, the Army must also reduce force structure to protect readiness in light of decreased end strength. The Army is currently significantly over-structured, meaning there are not enough soldiers to fill out existing units and organizations. Army leaders seek to have at least 470,000 soldiers in the Active Component by FY29, which is nearly 20,000 above the current end strength but a reduction of about 24,000 authorizations compared to currently planned force structure,” the report states.

It added that the Army is “undertaking a similarly important transformation of its recruiting enterprise so that it can man units sufficiently, continue to bring the right types and amounts of new talent into the Army, and rebuild its overall end strength.” Noting the ongoing recruitment failure within the U.S. military, the document noted, “The Army must solve its recruiting challenges to successfully transform for the future.”

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[Abraham Lincoln]

Fuck you ZOG, you show up on my door to drag me back and I'll kill whoever you send.

Biden has already opened the door for American troops right in Gaza.

And with that new rifle as well, that will be used to crush domestic opponents.

Die for Wokeism.

It's Israel if you listen to Lindsey Graham and Nancy Pelosi.

Though conservatives ran a pretty good grift where they fear mongered hard about liberal lunacy during the Obama years.

And then capitulate very hard to Biden, who is making it all a reality.

Their only goal in life left is to fight Trump pretty much while the nation gets infected with maggots on an open festering wound.

 

[Still Exceptional]

Hoping they won't be stupid enough to try and recall me because I'm basically completely insane at this point. Not even I know what I'll do. Probably nothing too dramatic, just fail my physical. But I'm going to curse nonstop at everyone that even slightly outranks me before they toss me back.

 

[dustbuster]

Doesn't work when they stopped mandating the clot shot

Trump chants.
Pepe patches
Gadsden flags
Everywhere you can get away with it.
Here comes the "extremism stand down" that never seems to get the guys who set themselves on fire in uniform for hamas in violation of UCMJ.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

When they take about the retired reserve, they mean people who were reservists that "retired" after 20 qualifying or "good years". Once you get your 20 year letter in the reserves, you are eligible to move into the retired reserve. You don't get to start drawing retirement pay until you turn 60. At any point before you turn 60, you can return from the retired reserve to the regular reserve and drill again. To me, this is making it sound like they are opening up the potential for those people to go back to active duty instead of just the reserve compo. In theory, could be a good move to get an active duty retirement vs a reserve retirement, but in practice probably (almost certainly) a dumb move for the amount of bullshit you would have to put up with. Really would boil down to rank, mos, and how many years you would have left till an active duty retirement.

 

[sallowhal]

sucks to suck, army. you know who isn't having recruiting issues? the marine corps.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/07/31/marines-recruiting-surges-while-other-services-struggle/

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

No 3 AM Green Corvettes

Oh God I just had a PTSD flashback.

At least it isn't red and you're headed to green ramp.

 

[Wahgonga]

Well, this is interesting. I was an Abrams crewman back in the first gulf war era. Did my time and was honorably discharged.

Haven't received any letter or correspondence regarding any of this. I'm past my prime, and being in a combat arms job is a young man's game. Doubt they'd want me back. Plus, I'm a grouchy old man who's too set in his ways to put up with other people's bullshit anymore.

 

[2ndBest]

Man am I glad I didn’t join the Navy. Flunked out of MEPS because of low frequency hearing loss in left ear, if they’re that desperate now they’ll let dead guys join.

 

[Echo_Ender]

I'd almost guarantee this is due to Israel bombing that Iranian Embassy. Iran is definitely going to do something about it and Biden is 100% going to drag us troops into it.

And with Iran currently loving drones, it's going to be a bloodbath that I don't think anyone is prepared for.

 

[EepEep]

I know I'm safe due to my MOS and what's in my record; but I'd want to tell someone in uniform to eat a bag of fetid dicks just one more time.

I'm replying to this because your other post won't let me quote or reply.

I understand what you're saying. I personally got out despite reenlisting because making E-6 was damn near impossible and by the time it became possible I was already getting ready to seperate.

Honestly, the upper NCOs are absolutely riddled with jackasses who are contributing to the manning problem, but they're not the real reason why manning has been so bad.

I just said that because I've personally seen a lot of great personnel get out because of the shit you went over, and those were well trained people that the military has to look to not only replace as a body but replace in training and experience.

The actual problem with recruiting is the changes they made to the Genesis program, young people not wanting to potentially get sent to Ukraine or the sandbox, and out of touch leadership that doesn't understand how to use social media to not be cringey.

Making potential recruits disqualified for medication they can be on after they start their active service has always been retarded.

 

[theTime15Nigh]

They aren't doing this because their recruitment numbers are low but because WEF Jewish commies and China Commies need to kill more middle-lower income people.
How else would WEF and China get their one China order?
I mean people like this are the army's leaders.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/20...mised-china-hed-warn-them-before-a-us-attack/

 

[FieldPiece]

Just say you're happy to come back and can't wait to get back to killing filthy brown children then break into a performance of "Jews Rock!"

 

[dustbuster]

You get a bunch of retards and assholes who make E-6, and then clog up the fucking ranks because as long as they can run a PFT and not fail every part; then short of being caught with a pack of underage dead hookers in their trunk, they can't be forced out. So they sit on their ass till at least their 20 year mark to get a pension, and spend that time making everyone under them fucking miserable and practically hand picking their successors.

And of course, any POTUS who wants to clean house will have to wage lawfare against the UCMJ to do it, arguing it violates separation of powers by preventing the commander in chief from commanding his own military, since personnel is policy.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

So when will they just start drafting white men and using them as canon fodder for committing wrong-think? As well as blacks that are homophobic, hispanics that don’t like Latinx, jews for being colonists, and arabs for being anti-Semitic?

 

[Night Crawler]

I don't understand why people on the right freakout about this so much. With all the Boomer fantasy LARPing BS they do you would think they would like the idea of a weaker ZOG bot army. The only thing they are going to do is use it on you anyway. Everyone in the US military takes an oath to defend the US against enemies both foreign and domestic.

We really need to cut our military spending. We spend way too much on our military and no other country in the world has a military that can even stand up to ours. Both China and Russia have shit tier militaries that barely exist. Ukraine has proven this and if the commie chinks ever try to move on Taiwan I think that will prove that the Chinese military is total garbage. People keep bitching about the money we spend on Ukraine. But I don't see anyone bitching about the money we have spent for decades on a military we clearly don't really need.

We could cut the US military budget by a few hundred billion and still have a military capable of defeating Russia or China and probably both at the same time. We could then invest that money back into the country for more useful things.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I'd almost guarantee this is due to Israel bombing that Iranian Embassy. Iran is definitely going to do something about it and Biden is 100% going to drag us troops into it.

And with Iran currently loving drones, it's going to be a bloodbath that I don't think anyone is prepared for.

Instead of deploying boots could we just nuke Iran and go home? Maybe nuke the whole region just to be sure. You can’t have Middle East forever wars if there’s no Middle East.

 

[wopirish]

No, they can't fucking make us. The last thing you want are the guys fed up with this shit years ago being forcible recalled.

Yeah, you can totally trust a group of us alone with the officer who is essentially a modern day commissar for DEI.

If shit pops off after this it'll make those fragging events in Nam look tame.

 

[sallowhal]

We could cut the US military budget by a few hundred billion and still have a military capable of defeating Russia or China and probably both at the same time. We could then invest that money back into the country for more useful things.

we could do this without even losing bodies tbh. get rid of contractors and instead of paying civilians to guard our base gates or cook our food, just make e1s and e2s do it. the amount of fraud, waste and abuse in the military is insane. the national reconnaissance office had a black budget for years until people realized just how much they were pissing down the toilet, for example.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

The crux of the matter is the military fucked up Contractor-Enlisted dynamics and they've realized it too late.

Contractor Scenario:
- 40 hours per week. No more, no less
- Flexibility to take PTO, sick days, etc.
- 2x compensation minimum
- No 3 AM Green Corvettes
- No CQ or random duty on weekends
- Not being in the field for 2-3 weeks, or ever
- No hands across America looking for lost equipment or picking up trash
- No 630 AM PT

Enlisted Scenario
- Typically waiting for 30 minutes to be released at the end of the day.
- Always on call
- PTO is essentially restricted to Summer Leave and Christmas Leave
- No "sick days". If you're legitimately sick, gotta have a form filled at at 530 and sick call at 0600.
- Pay is shit
- Insurance is covered
- Housing is covered, but you're heavily incentived to get married for BAH. (Barracks are generally not great, single soldiers are the ones that get shafted with random duties, random room inspections, etc.)
- Free food. Mostly sucks, but breakfast is the saving grace.
- PT, PT good for you, good for me
- Promotions are organized by MOS. It's likely a lot less limited now, but my MOS was capped at the top the entire time, LOL.
- Promotions had 0% to do with my job and overprioritizes PT scores.

My point being, why would anyone remotely competent in a technical field choose to reenlist when the only long-term benefit is a pension that requires 20 years while they keep fucking with it?

That's what my brother realized, which is why he's always been a contractor. He's a smart fuck, even if he is a miserable asshole.

 

[JosephStalin]

@HackerX - yup, that's why I separated from the enlisted ranks upon completion of my term of service. AF offered a re-enlistment bonus but wasn't enough.

If you're going to stay for 20, or more, do it as an officer, commissioned or warrant. Pay is much better, just a better deal all around. Separated from the enlisted ranks, got out as an NCO. Went back to school, through ROTC, and went right back to the unit I'd left, this time as a second lieutenant. The enlisted time, while I didn't enjoy all of it, made me a much better officer.


As an aside, military likes to use contractors due to military manpower ceilings. While Congress places hard numerical caps on the numbers of uniformed personnel in the services, they apparently aren't constipated about hiring all sorts of contractors, don't know of any limit. So contractors are used whenever and wherever possible. Contractors are paid from a different pot of money than the military people or the Government civilians.

Have heard people talking about the size of the defense budget. Most of our defense budget goes for people - their pay, their support, family members' support, etc. Covers a lot of things, such as medical/dental, housing, morale-welfare-recreation facilities/programs, the list goes on.