Navy rebounded on recruiting but didn’t document the processes it used to do that, watchdog finds

Navy did not document changes to recruitment procedures, watchdog says

The U.S. Navy failed to properly log new recruiting processes that helped the service reach its enlistment goals in fiscal 2024, according to a government watchdog report.The Navy Recruiting Command, or NRC, exceeded its objective of 40,600 recruits in 2024 by streamlining the medical waiver process and modernizing the operational recruitment process.But an improper chronicling of updates to these systems threatened to derail future successes, t…

Navy rebounded on recruiting but didn’t document the processes it used to do that, watchdog finds

The Navy reversed a major recruiting slump in 2024 and even met its 2025 goals early, but a lack of documentation on how it achieved those gains could undermine future efforts, the Pentagon Inspector General said.