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

Poor support for all branches of service across the USA, to many civilians don't have a clue and could care less and a lot of the blame for that goes to our poor on facts news media across the board. We seam to have the dollars to fund many useless projects and several foreign country's, make the pay worthwhile, especially for combat ready units.

Stop fighting a thousand small wars all over the world, young kids are wise to the propaganda and Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex that sees soldiers as fodder doing the dirty work to protect Oligarchies..

Bring back the draft and get these kids causing trouble with guns, stealing etc: off the streets. Just maybe they will cleanup their act with the help from our DI's across the board. Coming from experience as a bad boy and getting kicked out of school, just maybe the draft update would be a good thing.

Reinstate the draft - this would enable the branches to meet their recruiting goals and more importantly enable entire generations of young Americans to GROW UP!

The young in the U.S. nowadays only care about partying, protesting and living off their parents for as long as possible. They have no desire to work or to be serious about getting an education, so the military to them is too strict so they can't do what they want when they want. Taking orders is taboo to them.

Young generations are being taught by all these evil people to hate America instead of loving or serving Her. Only way to fix it is going to take another generation to reverse the effects: Get all your conservative friends to the voting stations-- and make sure they get their friends to vote, and so on down the line. Get the ****ing activists out of the white house, out of congress and yes, even some of our freaking generals need to get BOOTED. Austin, Milley.. all of them. The buck stopped there.

That is a tough problem to solve. I don't believe in lowering the standards of what it takes to be in service. PT tests, handling your individual weapon, etc. have to stay, lowering them will get people killed. But perhaps some of the other enlistment qualifications could be modified, not lowering it to Cat IV of the Armed Forces Qualification Test as McNamara did in Vietnam. But perhaps the medical and drug issues could be broadened. The age for enlistment has been increased and overweight has always been addressed. I rarely see commercials or advertisements for joining any of the armed forces, that could be punched up as others have suggested (or is it a sign of the regard the armed forces are held in?). But what about upping the pay, it's common knowledge that our lower ranks struggle especially those with families. We seem to be able to print money for immigrants and other questionable projects. Why not money for those who defend our country?

Illegal migraines should be forced into military service to earn their citizenship and learn English, as well as a skill, and earn a paycheck, so they won’t be a burden to taxpayers. Watch fewer migrants trying to enter illegally! They shouldn’t get a free pass, but should earn a DD214 and VA benefits.

Causes: #1 Wokeness, #2 We haven't won a war since WWII, #3 New generation only cares about themselves.
Cures: #1 Clean out all the deadwood in our mostly useless general officer corps. #2 Make service tough and honorable again. #3 Never lower standards- If we can't get enough people, then we manage with a leaner force. If we can't manage with that, then this country is no longer deserving of our blood.

When publicly traded companies fail to produce results, a change in management usually follows that restores profitability. Just saying