Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Recruiting

The military services under shelter of the draft had 3 years to design and organize resources to recruit an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). Although all services except the Air Force encountered initial problems recruiting in a nondraft environment, the Department of Defense (DOD) has essentially met the services' strength goals without any appreciable drop in quality in fiscal year 1974, the first full year of operation under the AVF concept. Recruiting successes were even better in fiscal year 1975, but were probably helped by depressed economic conditions.