Last week, the Navy announced it would hit reset on the service’s physical fitness assessments to give sailors a chance to get fit after almost three years of pandemic restrictions. The PFA pass is the latest in a series of efforts the service has rolled out to increase recruiting and retention over the past two […]
This post is part of a series looking back at the top naval stories from 2022. The Navy, like the other military branches, spent 2022 facing a bleak recruiting environment, one that is expected to be harder in 2023. Over the past year, the sea service introduced several new policies, from increasing age limits to new billet […]
The Navy is boosting its recruiting goal by 3,400 sailors to meet its Fiscal Year 2023 end strength requirement despite an increasingly difficult recruiting environment, service officials told USNI News on Tuesday. The sea service needs to recruit 37,700 active-duty enlisted sailors in FY 2023, according to a Navy release issued last week. The Navy […]