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Soldier Shortage: Youth obesity, academic outcomes, labor deficits affecting U.S. Army recruitment

The United States Army has a recruitment problem. Issues of increasing childhood obesity rates, a decline in educational outcomes, and shortages across the national labor market have caused sharp decreases in the number of new soldiers the U.S. Army has onboarded. In an effort to turn those numbers around, the Army has invested in a 90-day preparatory course to help young people interested in joining meet the physical and academic standards needed to become an Army member. During U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville's visit to the Detroit Arsenal, located in the TACOM facility in Warren, MI, where he spoke to several business and education leaders about the challenges of military recruitment, One Detroit's senior producer Bill Kubota sat down with McConville to learn more about the challenges the Army faces. The two discuss COVID-19 and the labor shortage's impact on the military, as well as the military's investments to attract more youth to serve. Plus, Kubota hears what community stakeholders took away from the conversation. Episode 707/Segment 1 Watch "One Detroit" Monday and Thursday on Detroit Public TV at 7:30p ET. Or catch the daily conversations on our website at https://OneDetroitPBS.org, Facebook at   / onedetroit  , Twitter at   / onedetroitdptv   and Instagram @One.Detroit.