West Point is on a mission to increase its female enrollment.

The U.S. military academy wants to boost its number of female cadets, who are greatly outnumbered by their male peers. West Point’s new superintendent, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, said that he would make it a priority to recruit more top female talent to join the Long Grey Line.

“We obviously have to increase the female population for a number of reasons,”  Caslen told the AP. “One is because there are more opportunities in the branches for the females.”

West Point has the lowest female enrollment of any of the U.S. military academies. Compared to the Naval and Air Force academies, where women make up around 22 percent of the student body, at West Point, 16 percent of cadets are female.

To encourage more young women to consider applying to West Point, the military academy created new mailings targeted to girls in their freshman, sophomore and junior years of high school.

The number of women nominated for admission is also on the rise.

Read the full AP story here.