The number of white soldiers the Army will hire in 2023 has fallen by almost half over the past five years, according to the report.
The dramatic decline coincided with a push by the service to increase hiring of a more diverse population, the report said.
The drop in white recruits coincides with the Army falling 10,000 short of its goal of 65,000 recruits in 2023.
military.com report In 2018, a total of 44,042 Army recruits were classified as white, but that number has consistently declined each year, reaching a “minimum of 25,070 in 2023,” according to internal Army data Wednesday. ”. The media reported that it was down 6 percent from the previous year. The largest decline occurred from 2022 to 2023. No other population group has seen such a rapid decline, the report added.
The report said hiring of blacks and Hispanics is almost “uniform.” However, the decline in white new hires during that time (from 56.4 percent to 44 percent) increased the shares of these demographic groups by 4 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
At least some military officials appear to be blaming Republicans and conservative media for criticizing obesity and the state of wokeness within the military as well as the public education system.
The article was reminiscent of the Army's campaign to recruit Gen Z, which featured soldiers with two mothers and other ethnic minorities, and drew condemnation from Republicans.
“In some parts of conservative America, military service diminishes prestige,” one Army official told Military.com. “Now you can say you don't want to participate, for whatever reason, and badmouth the service. For the first time in that space, you don't have to feel cultural guilt.”
However, he said the decline in white recruitment “is perplexing to the Army staff and cannot be easily explained by specific factors.”
Military.com cited economists at the American Enterprise Institute as saying white men are shrinking in the workforce, and cited similar statistics at civilian universities.
“Men have had a difficult time in the labor market for two generations. The greatest risk of dropping out of the workforce is being locally born, poorly educated and unmarried,” says economist Nicolas Eberstadt. said. “As with any major historical change, it's a little hard to attribute this to a single silver bullet.”
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