How would you solve the military recruiting challenges currently facing DOD?

Might be time to start offering citizenship to the border crossers in exchange for service.

How would I solve the problem? I would bring back the drill instructors from the 50's and 60's. Stop asking recruits to do something and stop being afraid that someone will be offended. Where is R. Lee Ermey?

don't give a damn about their feeling, just make them do what is right and weed out the whinners with discipline. if they don't want to fight for freedom lock them up and throw the key away.

I think everyone should have to do at least 2 years active military service

Allow older veterans/ those just out to come back in to the respect MOS's or learn newer skills and fill up those slots in the units. we have a lot of skills to the I for one would do it.

I'd remove the requirement that a recruit possess a high school diploma or GED prior to enlistment. Can a high school drop out really not be able to serve in the military? How many GIs in World War II didn't have a diploma? Quite a few. If a recruit makes a certain minimum score on the ASVAB, let them join. Put those folks through some sort of GED course after basic training. I had buddy get his GED in the Army like that in the 1980s. Bring that program back. It will help recruiting some amount.

Reinstitute the draft for anyone (boy or girl) over the age of 18 years old. If they are too fat or whatever to go directly into Boot Camp, put them in a special training facility to get them in shape for the draft.
Most of today's 18 to 24 year olds do not have any ambition to do anything except party, social media and playing games on their phones while living off of Mom and Dad. They have little respect for anyone because they believe nobody, including their parents, can touch them or be arrested. So then
the kids can do whatever they want without consequences.
I was a bad kid until the Navy made me a better man and I believe it can do the same for these young people today, along with filling our recruitment requirements.

Get rid of ALL the liberals.

I would consider those Veteran who did not get to retire, not medically retired, but were Honorably discharged. I would be interested in serving.

1. Improve healthcare. Just patching people up to go back to the line when there are new tests, new technologies, better meds because the Department of Defense and Services want to save money is poor and a betrayal to those serving and those who have served! It is not fair or just to push off health issues that could have been solved or improved so that Veterans pay the final cost! Allergies shouldn't become asthma because military doctors won't do allergy testing, prescribe better medicines. No active duty person should have to undergo endoscopies for heart burn every one to two years because the Department of Defense won't pay for nexium which works but costs $1.10 versus aciphex which has a 70% failure rate but costs .70!! That was from 2001 to 2010.
2. Jobs in Government or US Companies. Getting a job at age 50 years after 28 years of military service in four different career fields to include nursing, AFOSI, Forensics and Intelligence was impossible! No matter what job I applied for over 6 years and approximately 60 jobs, I was told I was overqualified meaning too old! I even went back to school and got another degree, but alas no job! Yes ageism is alive and well in the United States! The Department of Defense telling Veterans there are jobs in Government and US Companies just waiting for them is false!! It is amazing how a US Company can understand the military when competing for a billion dollar contract but not understand a Veteran or what they did when they are competing for a job! Frankly every US Company and Defense Contractor should be required to provide one job for every dollar they get from the Department of Defense! No job, no contract!! Yes it really is that simple!! Our US Companies and Government prosper on the backs of Veterans and do llittle to nothing for us during service or as we retire! And knowing someone or starting a business is not the answer and certainly not what we were promised when recruited! The most important lesson I tell folks these days is NEVER LET A JOB DEFINE YOU!
3. Recommending Military Service. By the age of 9 years I had been a hostage for six months each in military coupes in Peru and Libya where my Dad worked for Exxon. My Dad being a US Navy Vet in the Korean War raised us to be patriotic and to love our country which helped us survive hardship. We arrived in Libya in 1969, 72 hrs before Ghaddaffi took over Libya! Our first six months under marshal law and locked in our houses susceptible to being shot if found outside with tanks on the streets, soldiers shooting in the air and fighters flying overhead 24/7 would be the toughest of my life! The Commander of Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya in 1969 was Colonel Daniel Chappie James, later to be the USAF's first Black Four Star General. He was a huge guy, warm, caring and bigger than life and he loved kids! He came to my Oil Company School every other month for a year before the USAF base was shut down and American Military thrown out. He spent that time talking about patriotism, citizenship, values, those things many of us grew up on and can still remember from the 1960s and 1970s! I would remember his lessons going onto Reserve Officer Training at Texas Christian University while majoring in Nursing and Spanish and them commissioned into the USAF for 28 years. While I still remain proud of my military service, and US values, I also feel betrayed by the Department of Defense and the US Air Force! How can I have been successful in four different career fields and achieved so much in the military to go into civilian life and never find a job! I feel lied to by the Department of Defense and the US Air Force to the extent that I don't recommend military service to anyone!