U.S. Army Reaches 2025 Recruiting Goal Four Months Ahead of Schedule
“I want to thank the commander in chief, President Trump, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth for their decisive leadership and support which helped make this feat possible.”
The United States Army has reached its recruitment goals for 2025 months ahead of schedule. As you may be aware, every branch of the U.S. Military struggled to reach recruitment goals under the Biden administration. What changed?
This is important. Military readiness is a national security issue.
FOX News reports:
Army surpasses fiscal 2025 recruiting goal 4 months ahead of schedule
The Army announced on Tuesday that it “surpassed” its fiscal year 2025 recruiting goal of bringing in 61,000 recruits, and there are still four months left to go.
This year’s goal is more than 10% higher than the 55,000 recruits targeted in fiscal 2024, demonstrating a surge in interest and enthusiasm for Army service. Recent recruiting momentum has seen average contracts per day exceeding last year’s levels by as much as 56% during the same period.
The Army has not reached its recruiting goals this early in the year since 2014, Army officials said in a statement.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll spoke about reaching their recruiting goal on Monday, while speaking on a panel at the AI Expo in Washington, D.C.
Both men spoke about the coming summer months historically being the best for recruiting and both are scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify on the Army’s FY26 budget.
“Today the U.S. Army met our FY25 recruiting goals a whole four months ahead of schedule,” Driscoll said on Tuesday. “I want to thank the commander in chief, President Trump, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth for their decisive leadership and support which helped make this feat possible.
More from Military.com:
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have praised recruiting momentum as a sign of renewed patriotism among the nation’s youth. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, credited the uptick to “a resurgence of pride in our country” and “a generation inspired by purpose and service.”
The service met the goal months ahead of schedule after it and the other military branches struggled in recent years with recruiting. The Army had set out to recruit 61,000 soldiers by the end of fiscal 2025, which is Sept. 30.
The early success has prompted the Pentagon to consider the rare move of increasing the Army’s end strength — the total number of soldiers in its ranks. Among the options, the Pentagon could invoke a relatively obscure authority that allows the defense secretary to increase a service’s end strength by up to 3% without congressional action.
Does everyone remember how Democrats behaved during the confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth? This is what they feared. They were not afraid he would fail; they were afraid he would succeed.
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Gee wonder why this happened?
How are the other services doing?
Looks like a sea change, in the Army no less. Go Navy, beat Army in meeting recruiting goals.
All of us have flaws, some more than others. Congrats,!! BUT Pete
Is a patriot, loves American and its ideals. Hopefully those on the other service branches experience the same success.
Amazing what DoD can accomplish when it properly focuses on lethality and warfighting, instead of self-sabotaging and distracting tranny-enabling/-accommodating and “green”/”climate change” stunts and charades.
This will come as a revelation only to the stupid, evil and subversive Dhimmi-crat fifth columnists.
Nobody wants to sign up to volunteer to be gaywhipped for three years.
USAF Retired with 21 years here. I found the recruits lacking in military bearing during years of dimocrat leadership.
Before somebody pukes out “chairforce” I had 12 years of JCSE. We were the first ones on the plane headed for trouble and I was in a high deployable career field. I was not a badass but I knew them and they liked me, I gave them Comms. When I was part of JCSE we had the highest divorce rate of any unit in all of the military because of the high deployment rate.
I give props to you and anyone else who has served, in whatever capacity. Branch and role do not matter to me; I don’t judge, on those scores.
No Easy Day by Mark Owen gives you an idea if the stress put in SEALs these days and to some extent its overall effect on their lives. A very good read.
My nephew and a great step-niece just joined the Air Force. He has gone through basic and is on his way to LA to be a jet propulsion mechanic. She has a bit of more education in medical matters to finish at community college (nursing program) before she is eligible to join the Air Force Command para-rescue units. Then she will go through basic at Lackland Joint (Army-Air) Base, then parachute school and first responder training.
From Hawaii, she cal already do the swimming stuff with ease.
Daughter and her husband are 15yrs towards their 20 in The Army. They have been fed up for some time and decided if Harris got elected they would leave. Trump got in so they are staying. Many of their fellow soldiers were of the same mind. If Harris had been elected there would have been an exodus, now they can’t handle all the enlistments.
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