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Why Monthly Missions?
By Fonda Bock, USAREC, Public Affairs
Sept. 15, 2015
Recruiting centers are on a monthly phase line mission, beginning Friday, Sept. 18, requiring centers to meet a monthly contract number.
While the annual mission, implemented in FY 15, proved to work well long-term, it does not align with U.S. Army Recruiting Command’s monthly accession mission required by the Department of Army, said Todd Sherman, USAREC deputy G3.
“DOA tells us every month you have to ship a certain amount of Future Soldiers. In order for us to meet that, we have to secure enough new contacts to ship each month,” Sherman said. “When units don’t have a monthly requirement, it doesn’t allow us to project our required accession flow. If we don’t write enough contracts in October we may miss our January mission.
“So by giving them each a monthly phase line, it allows us to ensure we’re writing enough contracts each month to meet our accession requirement for the Army.”
Meeting monthly requirements is still a recruiting center effort - there will be no individual missions.
“We are not going back to where a recruiter is responsible for the whole enlistment process of an applicant, but every member of the center will have a responsibility to contribute to missions,” he said.
In a recent Strength 6 Sends, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Snow, USAREC commanding general, said he expects leaders to best determine how to distribute the workload to achieve the contract mission, holding each and every Soldier accountable for their role in accomplishing the center mission.
“Whether they are prospecting, conducting an interview, processing a packet, or conducting training with Future Soldiers, each recruiter has a vital role and mission to perform,” Snow said.
Having monthly missions also allows leadership to recognize good performance, motivating others to achieve. “Success breeds success,” Sherman said.
Annual missions are still in place, however they will be broken down into 12 monthly phase line missions based on monthly accession flow requirements.
Because of the change, there will be a two-week period from Sept. 18-30 when the command will be recruiting for both fiscal years 15 and 16. Every contract written during that time will be attributed to FY 16, but take away one shortfall from FY 15.
By Fonda Bock, USAREC, Public Affairs
Sept. 15, 2015
Recruiting centers are on a monthly phase line mission, beginning Friday, Sept. 18, requiring centers to meet a monthly contract number.
While the annual mission, implemented in FY 15, proved to work well long-term, it does not align with U.S. Army Recruiting Command’s monthly accession mission required by the Department of Army, said Todd Sherman, USAREC deputy G3.
“DOA tells us every month you have to ship a certain amount of Future Soldiers. In order for us to meet that, we have to secure enough new contacts to ship each month,” Sherman said. “When units don’t have a monthly requirement, it doesn’t allow us to project our required accession flow. If we don’t write enough contracts in October we may miss our January mission.
“So by giving them each a monthly phase line, it allows us to ensure we’re writing enough contracts each month to meet our accession requirement for the Army.”
Meeting monthly requirements is still a recruiting center effort - there will be no individual missions.
“We are not going back to where a recruiter is responsible for the whole enlistment process of an applicant, but every member of the center will have a responsibility to contribute to missions,” he said.
In a recent Strength 6 Sends, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Snow, USAREC commanding general, said he expects leaders to best determine how to distribute the workload to achieve the contract mission, holding each and every Soldier accountable for their role in accomplishing the center mission.
“Whether they are prospecting, conducting an interview, processing a packet, or conducting training with Future Soldiers, each recruiter has a vital role and mission to perform,” Snow said.
Having monthly missions also allows leadership to recognize good performance, motivating others to achieve. “Success breeds success,” Sherman said.
Annual missions are still in place, however they will be broken down into 12 monthly phase line missions based on monthly accession flow requirements.
Because of the change, there will be a two-week period from Sept. 18-30 when the command will be recruiting for both fiscal years 15 and 16. Every contract written during that time will be attributed to FY 16, but take away one shortfall from FY 15.