The Navy is boosting its recruiting goal by 3,400 sailors to meet its Fiscal Year 2023 end strength requirement despite an increasingly difficult recruiting environment, service officials told USNI News on Tuesday. The sea service needs to recruit 37,700 active-duty enlisted sailors in FY 2023, according to a Navy release issued last week. The Navy bases its goal on the number of sailors currently in the service, the targeted end strength set in the budget and forecasted personnel losses. Despite budgeting for a slightly smaller active-duty enlisted end strength, the sea service determined it needed to increase its recruiting goal … Continue reading Navy Boosts New Sailor Goal by 3,400 to Meet Demand in Tough Recruiting Environment