PULSE POINTS:
❓What Happened: The U.S. Army has announced it has already achieved its 2025 recruitment goals, four months ahead of schedule.
👥 Who’s Involved: The U.S. Army, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, President Donald J. Trump.
📍 Where & When: Driscoll announced the recruitment numbers through an article in the Wall Street Journal on June 3.
💬 Key Quote: “From the White House and Congress to the Pentagon, our soldiers are a priority. This is only the beginning. As more Americans learn about the Army’s mission and legacy, I hope more will choose to serve.” — Army Secretary Driscoll.
⚠️ Impact: The reversal comes after plummeting recruitment numbers under the former Biden regime and proves Hegseth and President Trump’s stances to be popular among those who want to serve.
IN FULL:
The U.S. Army has announced it has already achieved its recruitment goals for 2025, four months ahead of expectations, noting that 61,000 new recruits have joined. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll made the announcement on June 3, making it the first time in over ten years that the Army had met its recruitment goal by the start of June.
“From the White House and Congress to the Pentagon, our soldiers are a priority. This is only the beginning. As more Americans learn about the Army’s mission and legacy, I hope more will choose to serve,” Driscoll said.
Under the prior Biden regime and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Army struggled to recruit new troops, focusing instead on diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) policies. In 2022, the Army missed recruitment goals by 25 percent, while the Air Force missed recruitment goals in 2023 by 10 percent, the most in more than 20 years.
As early as April, however, recruitment was clearly surging under President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, with all branches noting 100 percent or more of their recruitment goals achieved. “These recruiting numbers don’t surprise me… one bit. They’re a reflection of a yearning from the American public, of young people to be proud of their country,” Hegseth said.
Hegseth has focused on revitalizing the “warrior ethos” among the Armed Forces and has already moved to scrap DEI policies, restore fitness standards, and reenlist those who refused to take the COVID-19 vaccines under the Biden regime.
“Everything starts and ends with warriors, from training to the battlefield. We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns. No more climate change obsession. No more emergency vaccine mandates. No more dudes in dresses, we’re done with that shit,” Hegseth said.
