Soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting.

The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist.

His entire family spent Sunday and part of Monday morning searching for the teen until his body was found shot multiple times in the apartment building in the basement laundry room seen in the video player above.

Army leaders dispute the idea that they lowered the goal to help meet expectations. They said the recruiting goal for next year will be between 68,000 and 69,000. Maj. Gen. Frank Muth, head of Army Recruiting Command, said there were 3.4% fewer waivers this year and that includes the lowest percentage of conduct waivers in two decades. To meet the recruiting goal while limiting waivers and raising standards, the Army increased the number of recruiters and targeted 22 cities that had historically been challenging areas. But McCarthy said Army leaders plan to keep visiting those cities until the goals are met.