The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment

The first paragraph states, "The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis."

I think the typical response from the Army, DoD, and members of Congress would be, "Thank you for the 'blinding flash of the obvious', but Service attrition rates have been the center of discussions for years and the one mentioned (20% for non-prep course Soldiers) is actually better for the Army than their average."

According to the information from DMDC, for about the last decade the overall first-term attrition rates (those who fail to complete their initial contract) in the Army have been between 25% and 30% and at about the 22%-23% at the two-year mark.