DOD Announces Recruiting and Retention Numbers for Fiscal 2011

The Depart­ment of Defense announced today recruit­ing and reten­tion sta­tis­tics for the active and reserve com­po­nents for fis­cal year 2011.

• Active Component. 
  • Recruit­ing — Fis­cal 2011. All four active ser­vices met or exceed­ed their numer­i­cal acces­sion goals for fis­cal year 2011. 
    • Army — 64,019 acces­sions, with a goal of 64,000; 100 percent
    • Navy — 33,444 acces­sions, with a goal of 33,400; 100 percent
    • Marine Corps — 29,773 acces­sions, with a goal of 29,750; 100 percent
    • Air Force — 28,518 acces­sions, with a goal of 28,515; 100 percent
  • Reten­tion. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps exceed­ed their fis­cal 2011 reten­tion goals in all cat­e­gories. The Air Force achieved 96 per­cent of its careerist reten­tion goal. 

• Reserve Component. 
  • Recruit­ing — Fis­cal 2011. Five of the six reserve com­po­nents met or exceed­ed their numer­i­cal acces­sion goals for fis­cal year 2011. The Army Nation­al Guard inten­tion­al­ly achieved 95 per­cent in order to stay with­in its con­gres­sion­al­ly autho­rized end strength. 
    • Army Nation­al Guard — 50,430 acces­sions, with a goal of 53,000; 95 percent
    • Army Reserve — 30,087 acces­sions, with a goal of 28,320; 106 percent
    • Navy Reserve — 8,364 acces­sions, with a goal of 8,344; 100 percent
    • Marine Corps Reserve — 9,180 acces­sions, with a goal of 9,157; 100 percent
    • Air Nation­al Guard — 7,182 acces­sions, with a goal of 6,632; 108 percent
    • Air Force Reserve — 9,069 acces­sions, with a goal of 8,831; 103 percent
  • Attri­tion. All reserve com­po­nents are on tar­get to achieve their fis­cal year 2011 attri­tion goals. End of fis­cal 2011 achieve­ments will be pub­lished in the Novem­ber 2011 report. 

Detailed infor­ma­tion on spe­cif­ic recruit­ing data can be obtained by con­tact­ing the indi­vid­ual mil­i­tary recruit­ing com­mands at 502–626-0164 for Army, 210–565-4678 for Air Force, 703–784-9454 for Marine Corps, and 901–874-9048 for Navy. The reserve com­po­nents can be reached at the fol­low­ing num­bers: Nation­al Guard Bureau 703–607-2586; Army Reserve 404–464-8490; Air Force Reserve 703–697-1761; Navy Reserve 757–322-5652; and Marine Corps Reserve 504–678-6535.

Source:
U.S. Depart­ment of Defense
Office of the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense (Pub­lic Affairs)