In a farewell message, outgoing Army Secretary Christine Wormuth praised the force for making strides to transform the Army while meeting missions at home and around the world.
As she prepares to wrap up her tenure as the 25th secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth offered leadership advice and reflected on her time on the job during a recent episode of the From the Green Notebook podcast.
Calling it a “teeny bit of news,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced a new monetary benefit for soldiers who go on operational deployments of 60 days or more.
The new benefit, called Operational Deployment Pay, is $240 a month and is effective immediately retroactive to Oct. 1, Wormuth said during a meeting with reporters at the Association of the U.S. Army’s 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.
Army leaders across the force must move faster and with more urgency to transform for the future fight, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said.
The first day of the largest annual land warfare exposition in North America features a keynote address by Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, the unveiling of the winners of the Army’s Best Squad Competition, and much more.
The Association of the U.S. Army’s 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition is being held for the 21st time at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The three-day in-person event will take place Oct. 14–16 and feature more than 750 exhibits in five halls on both levels of the convention center.
A six-month stopgap funding bill would hamper the Army’s recruiting momentum as well as several key investments in transformation and weapons programs, the service’s top civilian leader wrote in a letter to Congressional appropriators.
This year’s Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition will highlight the Army’s efforts to transform, modernize and restructure for the future fight.
As tensions mount in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Europe, the Army will have an increasingly important, global role, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said.
“[The Army] obviously always played the role of the guarantor of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific theater,” she said. “We have an incredibly important role to play in terms of logistics and sustainment, getting troops, equipment [and] supplies around the theater.”
The Army is focused on transformation as it works to build the force of 2040, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said.
“The Army is transforming in three different time frames,” Wormuth said during the recent 2024 Defense News Conference. “There's the 10 years and beyond timeframe, where we are really focused on our new Army warfighting concept 2040, then we've got sort of the midterm time period, … [and] then we're trying to look at the here and now.”
With about six months to go, the Army is on pace to meet its recruiting goals for the fiscal year, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said.
“While I don’t want to be overconfident because we have six more months in the fiscal year, if we continue to perform as we have, there’s an excellent chance we’ll meet our recruiting goal this year of 55,000 soldiers and 5,000 in the delayed entry program,” Wormuth told the House Armed Services Committee.
