In a remarkable turnaround for the U.S. Army, the force is already halfway to meeting its fiscal year goal of recruiting 61,000 soldiers. And it’s only three months into the new 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.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, About 16.1% of American children and adolescents ages 2–19 are overweight, and 19.3% are obese. The health agency says one in every three American youth are overweight or obese.
Another challenge has been perceptions of the military as being “woke,” more concerned about equity politics than warrior competencies.
Biden’s disastrous decisions surrounding the pulling of troops from Kabul ended in the deaths of 13 US military servicemen. He executed that operation agains the counsel of his top military advisers who predicted the collapse of the country’s government to the Taliban. The Taliban took control before the last US military jet had left the Kabul airstrip on Aug. 30, 2021, stranding at least 1,000 American citizens, and abandoning tens of thousands of our Afghan allies, who were hunted and killed by the Taliban. Biden left behind at least $7 billion in US military equipment that the Taliban took control of.
It was the beginning of an inauspicious four years for the military, which saw recruitments drop dramatically.
Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, has said that recruitment will be a top priority, and has alluded to the new Biden military culture of political and racial grievances had been part of the military’s difficulty in getting people to join.
Democrats oppose and are attacking Hegseth’s appointment for all kinds of reasons, mainly that he is likely to carry out Trump’s goal of “Make America Great Again.”
Well, the sun finally came out here today after weeks of nothing but rain. I guess Mother Nature was feeling a bit optimistic, knowing that Donald Trump will soon be back in office.
Correlation is not necessarily causation. This article is pure speculation, and nothing more.
Dawg… really? Believing your own Bravo Serria is a sign of early onset Joe Bidumb dementia.
Yes, God’s son will shine on us as we turn his way.
Glad you’re starting to catch on.
Time for another covid booster – boost again and often.
Turbo cancer much?
Biden’s DoD: DEI, firing warriors who would not get the vax and purging the ranks of conservative-minded military members.
Trump’s DoD: “We’re getting back to being ready to, if threatened, kill our enemies and blow up their infrastructure.
This is the way.
On top of this great news imagine in one week grocery prices will be dropping like a rock along with gasoline. That’s what happens when you elect the worlds greatest businessman President of the United States. Add on that pesky Ukraine/Russia war will end with one phone call and you have to wonder how did we let Joe Biden get elected in 2020? Oil back to $30 a barrel will truly Make Alaska Great Again!
Sarcasm?
Worlds greatest con artist who has mastered bankruptcy and screwing people over! Damn look at how the gas and grocery prices have NOT gone down! Seeing the war didn’t end within 24 hours,the orange con grifter’s phone call was sent to voicemail and then blocked!
6 more days till we get America back!
Common sense & adult leadership, wahooo!
Here is proof, that most people want a STRONG President!
You may not like Trump, because he hurts your feelings but Trump is a decisive leader!
It’s amazing what happens when the CIC doesn’t openly denigrate the military’s main source of recruitment.
Add to that, focusing on things like fighting wars instead of drag shows and mentally ill men wearing dresses.
Who could have imagined?
These comments have to be sarcasm? Greatest businessmen who bankrupted a casino. Fraudulent charity. Fraudulent university. Overweight and Bone spurs is no recruiting model. It was up 12.5 percent under Biden but it somehow doubled.
For sure, nothing boosts morale like working for a Convicted Felon and his presumptive underling who’s accused of sexual assault and can’t hold his booze.
Actually, if you read your history, that is the exact type of men that brought us out of the caves & into the Western World.
You know, the Western World Whidbey; the one that millions of people, walk thousands of miles, & risk their lives in rubber dingy’s, to get to
(they are escaping your preferred Gov control dude)
We call it the First World, if I remember right.
Enjoy the next 4 years!
You’re right, things were so good under a president suffering from dementia and his fine son who snorts coke, hires prostitutes, and won’t pay taxes.
His son, who was booted from the Navy for drug use.. Didn’t even serve a day after boot. What a hero, example, and role model
It would be interesting to know the breakdown of these new recruits that are male vs female.
How would they know, anyway?? Wouldn’t they need a biologist to determine that?
The boost is actually from Biden’s exec. order placing tampon dispensers in the male showers.
Don’t forget about the litter boxes in the bathrooms for the furries.
The numbers climbed through 2024. Another fake claim by trump/maga low information voters. Jesus you people will believe anything.
Thanks, Caroline. The Army missed its recruiting goal of 65,000 in 2022, so it lowered its goal in 2023 to 55,000, but still came up short by only recruiting 77% of its goal.
In 2024 (fiscal year ends Sept 30), it increased its recruiting over the previous year by 12%, but taking into consideration that it lowered its goal and then didn’t even meet the lowered goal in 2023, the claim that it “climbed” in 2024 must be presented with context. There is no question that recruitments now are at now a 12-year high, a surge that started in the fall of 2024. -sd
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