The US military grapples with a recruiting crisis. One Army vet says he knows why

Army veteran and former NFL player Jake Bequette weighs in on the U.S. military's recruitment crisis.

"Young people today are not rejecting military service; the challenge is that they are not even thinking about it," Vazirani said, according to a transcript of his opening statement. "They are not looking at what we have to offer and telling us ‘no.’ They simply don’t K-N-O-W much about military service, and what they do know is probably not accurate or complete." Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.

He also noted that Generation Z has "low trust in many institutions" from the government to the media and is "decreasingly following traditional paths."