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Second Lieutenant Kody Sims instructs students participating in the Army's new Future Soldier Prep Course who are working to improve their Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test scores at Fort Jackson on September 28, 2022 in Columbi The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist.While the Army was the only service that didn't meet its target, all of the others had to dig deep into their pools of delayed entry applicants, which will put them behind as they begin the next recruiting year on Saturday.The worsening problem stirs debate about whether America’s fighting force should be restructured or reduced in size if the services can't recruit enough, and could also put added pressure on the National Guard and Reserve to help meet mission requirements.According to officials, the Marine Corps, which usually goes into each fiscal year with as much as 50% of its recruiting goal already locked in, has only a bit more than 30%. And the Air Force and the Navy will only have about 10% of their goals as they start the new fiscal year.

NEW YORK - It's just a simulation, but it feels real, as the employee carrying out the demonstration inside Actuate offices in Midtown Manhattan walks in carrying a mock AR-15 rifle.In a matter of seconds, after the employee is visible in the office space, a surveillance camera in the room goes into action.A green flash pulsates across the monitor set up in another corner of the room after the video management system recognizes a potential threat in the room."As you can see it's pulsing green within about a second or two. That means an alert has been registered," says Actuate CEO and co-Founder Sonny Tai.

A U.S. Marine Corps carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Gunnery Sgt. James W.

A US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft lands during a joint exercise with Japanese Self Defense Forces members at the Higashifuji training area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture on March 15, 2022. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo b HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed when their Osprey aircraft crashed in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister and defense officials said Saturday.Jonas Gahr Stoere tweeted that they were killed in the crash on Friday night.

The US Department of the Navy, US Marine Corps, seal hangs on the wall February 24, 2009, at the Pentagon in Washington,DC. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards / AFP PHOTO / Paul J.

YUMA, Ariz. - Officials with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office say a Marine Corps veteran disarmed another man during an armed robbery incident on the morning of Oct. 20.The incident, according to a statement released by YCSO, happened at a Chevron gas station near Fortuna Road and the I-8.

SAN DIEGO – The Marine Corps inspector general, Major General Robert Castellvi, has been suspended amid the ongoing probes into last summer's fatal sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast, a newspaper reported Monday.

ORLANDO, Fla. – At 97 years old, Sallie Amato can still recall what it was like to be among the first group of women who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Many top entrepreneurs will tell you the idea for their businesses came from realizing a need people have and seeking to fulfill it.

Sgt. Dot Cole (Photos: City of Kannapolis, left; US Marine Corps, right) KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - Dorothy Schmidt Cole, recognized last year as the oldest living U.S.

(DVIDS via Storyful) PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. - Two sets of sisters graduated from the Marine Corps recruit training together over the weekend.The Department of Defense called the five new Marines "sisters by blood, now sisters-in-arms."Ashley Valentine, 19, decided to join the Marine Corps after promising her grandfather that she would carry on his legacy, just three days before he passed away.

WASHINGTON – The Marine Corps has removed a two-star general from command of Marine forces in Europe and Africa based on an investigation into allegations that he used a racial slur during a training event, officials said Tuesday.The decision to relieve Maj. Gen.

DETROIT – The U.S. Marine Corps confirmed Saturday that two men charged in plots against Michigan's government spent time in the military.Officials are “aware of the circumstances surrounding” Daniel Harris and Joseph Morrison and will assist in any way in the investigation, the Marine Corps said in an emailed statement.Harris is one of six men charged federally with conspiring to kidnap Democratic Gov.

Marine Corps has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after he and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in a Pentagon meeting with a Coast Guard leader who was infected with the virus.The Marine Corps said Wednesday that Gen. Gary L.

Marine Corps emblem. (Marine Corps)Dorothy (Schmidt) Cole celebrated her 107th birthday on Sept.

TOKYO : Dozens of U.S. Marines at two bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa have been infected with the coronavirus in what is feared to be a massive outbreak, Okinawa's governor said Saturday, demanding an adequate explanation from the U.S.

coronavirus at two bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa in what is feared to be a massive outbreak, Okinawan officials said Saturday, demanding an adequate explanation from the U.S. military.Okinawa prefectural officials said they could say only that a “few dozen” cases had been found recently because the U.S.

TWENTYNINE PLAMS, Calif. - A Marine sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a two-hour standoff with military police Tuesday on a sprawling Marine Corps base in the Southern California desert, military officials said.Shots were reported around 6:30 a.m., triggering an alert of a possible active shooter at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, about 125 miles east of Los Angeles, said spokeswoman base Capt. Nicole Plymale.Military police found the Marine on a remote hillside on base and cordoned off the area, she said.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The roar of fighter jets and the spectacle of aircraft flying in tight formations in the sky is a view most awe at when given the opportunity.