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U.S Army Increases Military maximum enlistment Age To 42 (Photos)

A major update to 🇺🇸 U.S Army recruiting regulations this week raises the maximum age a recruit can join to 42, and removes a barrier to joining for recruits with a single legal conviction for marijuana or drug paraphernalia possession.

The Army’s previous limit was 35, though exceptions are occasionally made. The higher age limit brings the Army in line with other services’ limits of 41 in the Navy and 42 in the Air Force and Space Force, Kate Kuzminski, who studies military recruiting for the Center for a New American Security, told Task & Purpose.

Army recruiting officials have noted in recent years that the average age of recruits is increasing, with officials telling reporters in 2024 that the average recruit was 22 years, 4 months, and that it was still “going up.”

Kuzminski said the change has positives and negatives. According to a report she authored for the RAND Corporation, many older recruits scored higher on enlistment qualification tests than recruits who joined before 20. Those older recruits were also more likely to reenlist and be promoted than their younger peers.

However, older recruits were also less likely to graduate from basic training and had higher attrition rates.

The older enlistment cap is the latest in the military’s multi-billion-dollar overhaul of recruiting, launched after years of missed recruiting goals. The Army, the largest branch in the military, failed to meet annual recruiting goals in 2022 and 2023.

Changes in recent years to the Army’s recruiting enterprise include installing a pre-boot camp prep course for recruits who do not initially meet fitness and academic standards and creating marketing schemes to move the Army’s messaging past the post-9/11 wars and appeal to Gen Z.

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So?

You want to force reluctant fathers with beer-bellys to wage war?

Zonefree is 52...

He would still not qualify. With his groundnut head!

nigerian army should start conscripting , we have an abudance of lazy youths indeed.

Better to face your problem than your imaginary problem.

I for like join US military oh

That year, when boys been won japa by all means,

But thank God it turned around In our good.

But why American youth no dey interested in their military. Them prefer dare devil stuffs than been in the military

Nlfpmod where did you see conscription?

The quality of nairaland has dropped considerably

Did you even read this before pushing it to FP?

I thought conscription ended years ago in the US?

donleo92:
I for like join US military oh

That year, when boys been won japa by all means,

But thank God it turned around In our good.

But why American youth no dey interested in their military. Them prefer dare devil stuffs than been in the military

I think the reason behind this is your ability to control Your time
I like Air Force but I love my freedom pass anything
I like going out and coming back whenever I want to
No one is controlling me

40+ Nigerian men
This is for you

Chai. While planning to join.

It's hard to make a comment on Nairaland without ban and deletion even for very innocent comments

Yup.


Not many people are willing to join the US Military these days.

They've been advertising on UFC for people to join the US Military.

Also, there is a reduced patriotism among young US Citizens and also so many of them are becoming Leftist/Democrats in politics.

We now have more foreigners joining the US Military than ever before.

Are they having shortages already?

Trump is preparing for ground invasion to Iran, Cuba etc

Any link for this, I go like Japa oooo

Interesting.
War has barely started and USA is already facing shortages...
The orange clown is looking for who he'll send to Iran and other places he wants to bomb.


Unfortunately, people like unrighteous righteousness2 won't still be qualified.
Dude is already 46.
righteousness2, A ph ool at forty something.

US Army is not a conscript army, it's an all volunteer army. Hence the use of the term conscript is wrong.

USA has made its armed forces all volunteer since 1973. Vietnam was the reason.

What this means is that men and women between the ages of 40 and 42 can now join up.

ccWriterNg.

Oya, millennials of Nairaland. This na japa opportunity. Mrcork, where you dey?

However, older recruits were also less likely to graduate from basic training and had higher attrition rates.

There is a reason why it better join when you are younger.

US anticipating for more war, so they need more recruites into the army, here is a big chance for the buffalo soldiers from Africa to enlist themselves into the US army