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SOCOM warns of recruitment shortfalls and asks Congress to fund training, safety and human performance
Summary
SOCOM leaders told lawmakers they are producing fewer special operators than they lose to attrition, highlighted training‑safety funding shortfalls and described programs to protect human performance and address traumatic brain injury.
Lawmakers heard that the special operations community is facing recruiting and retention shortfalls and that training oversight and human performance programs need additional funding.
Gen. Brian Fenton said the force is maintaining standards and will not lower them, but that force shrinkage in the services has reduced the pipeline for Special Forces candidates. He described the Army’s 18X accession pathway as a way to expand the candidate pool: roughly 3,000 applicants…
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