Phoenix, Arizona. (Feb. 5, 2023) – In this photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Anderson, Damage Controlman 1st Class Kreig Newton hands out recruiting aids to visitors at the Super Bowl 57 Fan Experience. Navy Recruiting Command consists of a command headquarters, two Navy Recruiting Regions, and 26 Navy Talent Acquisition Groups that serve 815 recruiting stations across the world. Their goal is to attract the highest quality candidates to assure the ongoing success of America’s Navy.

Since the Revolutionary War, Navy recruiters have fanned out across the country to recruit potential Sailors and Marines into military service. In 1775, the Navy created the Office of the Secretary of the Navy who assumed direct responsibility for recruiting.

In 1971, in response to the end of the military draft and an increased emphasis on Navy recruiting, the Secretary of the Navy established the Navy Recruiting Command to coordinate outreach to volunteers around the nation. With the ever-increasing technological sophistication Navy ships, submarines, and aircraft, the Navy recruiters must find, inspire, and recruit the best and brightest young men and women to serve in the diverse, high-tech Navy of the 21st Century.

Headquartered in Millington, Tennessee, the Navy Recruiting Command covers the entire United States with twenty-six (26) Navy Recruiting Districts commanded by two Navy Recruiting Regions. Today, nearly 6,000 active, reserve, and civilian contract employees staff more than 1,400 recruiting stations throughout the U.S., Guam, Puerto Rico, and Europe.

Some 4,200 recruiters focus on the approximately 25,782 public and 6,177 private high schools nationwide and another 2,750 on two-year colleges and 2,490 four-year universities. They recruit in specific areas: Officer and Enlisted diversity, Medical officers, Chaplains, SEALs, Navy Special Warfare, Navy Special Operations, Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Diver, Hospital Corpsmen and Reserves.

To most Americans, recruiters working events like the Super Bowl are the “face” of America’s Navy to potential servicemembers.