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The military is facing its largest recruiting crisis since the switch to an all-volunteer force in 1973.

The U.S. Army announced an expansion to a program that allows the service to enlist candidates who do not yet meet the weight and aptitude requirements for service.

Every employer—public or private—recruits workers. What sets military recruiting apart is the nature and the stakes involved in the work to be done: The job is defending the nation, and the penalties for failure are death and defeat. With stakes this high, recruiting standards should be high as well. They are vital to both the nation’s defense and the recruit’s survival.

6 ways Army can appeal to Gen Zers and recruit more than a few good men and women that will help government overcome declining interest in military careers.

With stakes this high, recruiting standards should be high as well.

What is the measure of a good school? And who is best positioned to decide what works? For decades, policymakers, and education officials have attempted to bolster school “accountability” by increasing regulations on schools across the board—public, charter, and private. They have tried to do so at the federal level for half a century, with federal intervention in K-12 education hitting a high-water mark under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policy and the Obama administra...

When American servicemen returned home after World War II, a grateful nation supported the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly referred to as the G.I. Bill). Among the benefits was a new provision to pay for the college expenses of veterans.

Minimum qualifications for military service

The Army is reevaluating its end strength numbers because recruitment is so challenging.

After the Navy, he worked maintenance at the hydrologic station in Coshocton, then started doing maintenance at the Career Center in 2006.