This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites which would obviously help us. Another thing weve done is weve partnered with our recruiting brigades so that frankly we are increasing the profile at events across the United States. We will also be increasing the marketing that we spend and we have very datadriven analysis t
We are pressed for time so to the extent youre able to please limit it to one follow up and be respected over those in the room. Please lead off with your name. Im not getting give opening remarks. Im guessing you all heard all you want and want to get the questions. Open it up to you. We are ready to go. Good morning. This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expan