Rod and Gabi VS ADFA Recruits BONUS

ADFA is rolling out a brand-new way to recruit and it’s not what you’d expect.

With $170 million behind the scheme, Rod and Gabi take a deep dive into how it’s all set to work.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what I could tell you about it, or
this is the story on the news. Recruitment's tough. You know,
defense forces around the world find an increasingly challenging to
get younger generations to sign up. How did we do
it in Australia and how did we.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do Australian defense forces meeting young people where they are
on social media sites like Instagram and TikTok, but also
on video games like Fortnite and Call of Duty.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ah, whoa makes sense? Now your your husband plays these?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, you know he was talking a couple of years
ago about potentially joining the reserves.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's where it starts. We've been recruited Call of Juty.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I've actually spent one hundred and seventy million dollars going
after that seventeen to twenty four age bracket. And it's
a tactic that appears to be working.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's now the footage they're playing here, and I imagine
that seven Sunrise has just banged any video game bridge,
but they have popped Spider Man on. And let me
tell you, I mean, I don't know unless there is
a secret You know, what do you call if you're
in a live world?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
No, no, In the ADF. So if you're like a group,
you know, like.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
A covert mission type, right, if you're a covert group.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know for a fact
that we're not training at the Spider Man. But I
don't know. I don't think we are. And so if
you sign it me, if you've signed up for that,
there may be some disappointment.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Their best drive, their best recruitment drive since two thousand
and nine. The Albanesi government now on track to meet
its target of sixty nine thousand permanent staff by the
early twenty thirties.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, that is a tremendous success.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
So whose job is it in the ADF And how
do I get it? Where you just play video games
trying to recruit?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, because that's a pretty good job. You're right, you're right,
you're right. So if you want to be a recruitment officer,
but if you get into this and you are drawn in,
just a warning to all the Pokemon, We're going to
catch all