NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Air Force will miss its annual enlisted recruiting goal across all three components for the first time since 1999, as waning interest in military service and administrative ...

Airmen and Guardians can now receive promotions and medals for getting people to sign up to join their services. The move comes as the Air Force grapples with its toughest recruiting year in recent ...

New airmen take the oath of enlistment at an air show in Lakeland, Fla., April 25, 2015. (Courtesy photo via Air Force) In summer 2023, Air Force Tech Sgt. Tameka Paschal-Vassell’s phone rang with an ...

The commander in charge of the Air Force’s recruiting efforts says the branch of service is "not nearly relatable enough to most of Generation Z," which he describes as "not patriotic." Maj. Gen. Ed ...

Air Education and Training Command boss Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson administers the oath of enlistment during a recruiting ceremony at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 11, 2023, at National ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other senior War Department officials honored the military's top recruiters Dec. 18, during ...

When Air Force recruiter Greg Butler arrived at a recent event in Springfield, Missouri, he found that the space reserved for his recruiting booth was right next to a display from a local gym. And it ...

Air Force recruiter Amber Metts has had a stellar — and exhausting — year. The 35-year-old master sergeant has signed up 84 recruits, putting in long days of school visits, chatting up prospects at ...

The Air Force will allow recruits to have a greater percentage of body fat in an effort to reach more Americans as the service expects to fall short of its recruiting goals this year. Male recruits ...

The Air Force is allowing recruits to join with significantly more body fat. But within a year, they will still have to pass the new body composition test that is based on a person’s height-to-waist ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Air Force could fall short of its recruitment goal. “It’s likely that we could miss by 10 percent or more,” said Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, Air Force Recruiting ...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - An Air Force recruiter was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison for sexually assaulting women who went to his Houston-area recruiting station to ask about joining the ...