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Defense Sec. Hegseth Reports Surge in Military Recruitments

Defense Sec. Hegseth Reports Surge in Military Recruitments

The Army has secured over 30,000 enlistments already, a significant increase over last year’s numbers.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared some good news recently, as he reported that US military recruitment numbers, particularly for the Army, have shown a significant increase in recent months.

The U.S. Army’s recruitment effort is far ahead of schedule for the fiscal year, having topped 30,000 new active-duty soldiers in just a few months, and that’s due in part to the new commander in chief, his Defense Secretary nominee said Tuesday.

President Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, told senators at his confirmation hearing that recruitment has increased since Trump was elected president. He also said there will be a “recruiting renaissance” after Trump takes office and the Pentagon can rid itself of “woke” policies.

“I know the troops will rejoice. They will love it. We have already seen it in recruiting numbers. There has been a surge since President Trump won the election,” Mr. Hegseth said.

“There’s no better recruiter for our military, in my mind, than President Donald Trump.”

The Army is on track to meet its enlistment goal of 61,000 new soldiers for the fiscal year 2025, with over 30,000 enlistments already secured just three months into the fiscal year.

Recruitments are up 25% over last year.

The Army barely met its recruiting goal last year, which was substantially lower than this year’s goal of recruiting 55,300.

The Army already has 30,000 enlistments for this year, an increase over the 24,000 that had enlisted by this time last year. The federal fiscal year starts Oct. 1.

Under President Joe Biden, the military has seen the worst recruitment numbers since the Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago, on April 30, 1975.

Challenges facing military recruitment include a vast majority of American youth who are fat, out of shape, and have related medical issues resulting from diet and lack of exercise.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has described the recruitment efforts as “going like gangbusters,” noting that the first quarter contracts signed are at the highest rate in the last 10 years.

The U.S. Army is poised to hit its 2025 enlistment targets, a significant rebound for a service that has faced years of recruitment struggles and recently overhauled its approach to attracting young recruits.

For the past decade, the military as a whole has faced an uphill battle in recruiting, squeezed by a shrinking unemployment rate and intensified competition from private sector employers offering higher salaries and comparable or superior benefits.

The Army hit its recruitment target of 55,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, while also replenishing its delayed entry pool. Roughly 24 percent of new recruits came through the service’s prep course, a figure Wormuth expects to rise to 30 percent this year.

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Good news, true. This must be tempered knowing that, with one election, DOD and the rest of government could return to the bad old days of WOKE. We must work hard that doesn’t happen.


 
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irishgladiator63 | February 5, 2025 at 1:47 pm

You mean returning the military what it’s supposed to do and letting it be known that it won’t screw over the majority of citizens if they join leads to increased numbers? Who could have foreseen that?


 
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Ironclaw | February 5, 2025 at 1:48 pm

As predicted. Not having woke retards in charge of a thing makes that thing more popular.


 
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Fred Idle | February 5, 2025 at 1:51 pm

And it would not surprise anybody to the right of Karl Marx that that the vast majority of the new recruits are probably young, able-bodied heterosexual males.


 
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thalesofmiletus | February 5, 2025 at 1:54 pm

Wait, so they dropped the anti-white, anti-male rhetoric and recruitment surged? Huh, I wonder why the previous administration didn’t do that? Must have had some other priorities…


 
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The Gentle Grizzly | February 5, 2025 at 4:04 pm

Is that flag officer? Who was a male but where is a dress gone? I forgot his her name.

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