A Proposal for the Merger of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) and the U.S. Army Cadet Command: One Recruiting Organization - "More Than a Partnership"

Abstract

This Strategy Research Project (SRP) proposes a concept to merge both the United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) and the United States Army Cadet Command into one accessions organization. For the past five years both USAREC and Cadet Command have found greater difficulty in achieving their annual missions. USAREC, except for FY 00, has missed its recruiting mission for five years straight and Cadet Command failed in its commissioning mission this past year. Now with the establishment of a formal partnership' between USAREC and Cadet Command and with recruiters sharing office space with ROTC cadre on college campuses, its appropriate to ask the question--why two commands? Could the redundancy and inefficiency of these two organizations actually be impeding on their ability to recruit? Are there too many hand-shake' agreements/partnerships? Perhaps there needs to be a formal command structure that provides command and control by a higher headquarters that is responsible for both missions--officer and enlisted recruiting. How much money and resources could be conserved by sharing these efforts? Could redundancies in staffs cause the reduction in resources if commands and staffs were merged? In a time when the Army is geared towards Transformation and looking at ways to move resources from the institutional army to the warfighting commands--to put troops back in the foxholes--eliminating redundancy and inefficiency in institutional Army organizations like USAREC and Cadet Command make sense. This reorganization is more than a new organization. It proposes a whole new way of doing business--'a new philosophy.' With this concept of total Army recruiting, all green-suitors participating in the recruiting effort, one recruiting' organization will be able to systematically penetrate a lost market segment' of high quality young people.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 10, 2001
Accession Number
ADA389814

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  • Tim Kleppinger

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  • United States Army War College

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