US Military Recruitment Shortage Crisis: Is Recruitment Up, Yet?
Is military recruitment up in 2025? We analyze the latest data, the $1.9B spending surge, and whether the US military recruitment shortage is truly solved.
Jared Zabaldo |
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Is military recruitment up in 2025? We analyze the latest data, the $1.9B spending surge, and whether the US military recruitment shortage is truly solved.
Jared Zabaldo |
The English militias that the National Guard claims as its heritage were responsible for the first European massacre of Native Americans. Those English colonial militias are honored and celebrated as...
Steven Alvarez |
The 149th FW, known as the Lone Star Gunfighters, is an F-16 training unit that is a part of the Texas Air National Guard and the Texas Military Department. Based...
Steven Alvarez |
Like other chapters in American history that are being revisited, the birthdate of the National Guard deserves a hard look. We can’t know for sure, but reexamining what we know...
Steven Alvarez |
The Massachusetts militias of 1636, which are considered the "Nation's First" by the National Guard Bureau and the U.S. Army Center of Military History, established a precedent for being first,...
Steven Alvarez |
The U.S. Army announced it is hosting National Hiring Days June 30-July 2, 2020, a virtual recruiting event that it hopes will help them recruit 10,000 future soldiers in just...
Blog Staff |
The National Guard claims that English colonial militias in Massachusetts were the first to muster in what would become the U.S., ignoring Spanish colonial militias which mustered more than 70...
Steven Alvarez |
The U.S. Army celebrates its 245th birthday this Sunday, June 14, 2020. The Army was created more than a year before the Declaration of Independence and its first major task...
Steven Alvarez |
For the first time in its history, the National Guard has a record 66,722 troops engaged in domestic operations at the direction of governors across the United States, U.S. Air...
Steven Alvarez |
Recent college grads are facing the worst job market since the Great Depression forcing many of them to rethink their plans. But there is a bright side. Uncle Sam is...
Steven Alvarez |
In the coming weeks, about 3.5 million teenagers nationwide will complete their high school education and some of those young men and women will consider the military as a career...
Steven Alvarez |
Class of 2020, shut off your phones, turn everything off and listen to yourself for a few minutes. Listen to your soul. It is telling you where to go, who...
Steven Alvarez |
In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed H.R. 5314 into law to help protect military working dogs from needless euthanasia. Here's why you should adopt a military working dog.
Blog Staff |
Here are the facts about requesting replacement medals for veterans or replacement war service medals from the U.S. government.
Steven Alvarez |
If you are attending military training or have a loved one currently in military training, I hope this post helps answer some questions. Remember, when in doubt, reach out to the...
Blog Staff |
Hospital ships date back to the early 1800s when the USS Intrepid was used as a hospital ship after being reconfigured. That model, for the most part, is applied today....
Steven Alvarez |
Military medals represent the many faces military veterans have served; they represent those to our left and right, who stand with us shoulder to shoulder and military medals represent those...
Steven Alvarez |
As veterans, we should not be using our military experiences to make others uncomfortable by marginalizing their fears and minimizing contributions. I’ve seen it going on in social media circles...
Steven Alvarez |
Thin military ribbon racks not only look sharp, but in the case of this veteran, they helped him get promoted.
Steven Alvarez |
USAMM's ribbon rack builder can help build a large or small ribbon rack for every branch of the U.S. military. All you do is click.
Steven Alvarez |
A military ribbon rack is a résumé that tells those who know how to read them, where a person has been, what they have experienced, what they know and what...
Steven Alvarez |
From memory, most Army veterans with more than a couple of years in uniform can recite the criteria to earn a U.S. Army ribbon and also explain the order of...
Steven Alvarez |
A military shadow box encapsulates a veteran's military service. Here are some thoughts if you're thinking about purchasing one to help you pick the right kind.
Steven Alvarez |