United States Army Recruiting Command
| U.S. Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) | |
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USAREC shoulder sleeve insignia (SSI)
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| Active | 1822 – present |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Army
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| Role | Military recruitment |
| Size | Command |
| Part of | US Army direct reporting unit |
| Garrison/HQ | Fort Knox, Kentucky |
| Commanders | |
| Commander | Major General Jeffrey J. Snow |
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The United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) mission is to recruit the enlisted, non-commissioned and officer candidates for service in the United States Army and Army Reserve. This process includes the recruiting, medical and psychological examination, induction, and administrative processing of potential service personnel.
The Recruiting Command is a field operating agency administratively responsible to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. The Command employs more than 7200 Active and Reserve Component recruiters at more than 1,600 recruiting centers across the United States and overseas. The Command is guided in its operations by the United States Mobilization Doctrine.
The Command is commanded by a Major General, and assisted by a Deputy Commanding General (Brigadier General), with five recruitment brigades and a number of support brigades in the Command.
U.S. Army recruiters generally are DA selected for three year assignments. These “detailed” recruiters return to their primary military occupational specialty after obligation as recruiters. Center Leaders and reserve recruiters are all career recruiters who stay within USAREC for the duration of their careers.
General Paul Gorman’s (USA, ret.) in his institutional history of the U.S. Army, The Secret of Future Victories, credits George C. Marshall as the architect of the modern version of the current system for personnel allocation.
Recruiting for the U.S. Army began in 1775 with the raising and training of the Continentals to fight in the American Revolutionary War under Article I of the U.S. Constitution. The Command traces its organisational history to 1822, when Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, commanding general of the Army, initiated the General Recruiting Service. For much of the rest of the 19th century recruitment was left to the regimental recruiting parties, usually recruiting in their regional areas as was the practice in Europe.
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