COVID-19 crisis highlights new age Army recruiting

In a world heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, finding future soldiers to serve in the U.S. Army is going strong thanks to virtual opportunities connecting recruiters and young men and women interested in serving.

As a first generation American, Lt. Col. Raphael Vasquez, 46, was taught some profound lessons by his father, who migrated from Mexico in the 1960s as part of a federal program developed to find agricultural workers in the Southwest. Among those lessons were the importance of education and service.