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Army Breaks Recruiting Record In December

Well, what do you know? The U.S. Army is back in business. After years of struggling to convince young Americans to sign up, December 2024 turned out to be the best December for Army recruiting in 15 years. That’s right—after years of dismal enlistment numbers, suddenly the tide has turned. And what changed? Oh, that’s right—there’s a commander-in-chief in the White House who actually believes in America First, and it turns out young Americans are inspired by strength, not endless apologies for their country.

The numbers speak for themselves. Nearly 350 new recruits every single day in December. That’s a staggering turnaround for a military branch that—under the previous administration—could barely convince people to take the job, even with bonuses and relaxed standards. Army recruiters have been working overtime, and it’s finally paying off. The Army itself took to social media to praise their work, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summed it up perfectly: America’s youth want to serve under the bold & strong “America First” leadership of President Donald Trump.

Now, let’s not forget where we were just a couple of years ago. The military was missing recruiting goals by tens of thousands, failing by an eye-watering 41,000 recruits in 2023 alone. The Biden administration’s strategy of turning the armed forces into a progressive social experiment—complete with DEI initiatives, vaccine mandates, and lectures on “extremism”—went over about as well as you’d expect. Turns out, young Americans don’t exactly sign up to fight for pronoun workshops and climate change seminars.

By contrast, the Trump administration wasted no time in bringing the focus back to what the military is actually for: defending the nation. The Army overhauled its entire recruiting strategy, expanding its talent acquisition workforce, streamlining the enlistment process, and deploying medical providers to Military Entrance Processing Stations to make everything more efficient. The Army also ramped up its Future Soldier Preparatory Course, making sure that potential recruits who might have struggled with academic or fitness requirements could still qualify without lowering standards. Because, shockingly, people are more willing to join an institution that still holds itself to a level of excellence.

Of course, some critics will still try to downplay this success. They’ll point out that the Army cut 24,000 positions in 2024 as part of a restructuring. What they won’t tell you is that those cuts were made to eliminate empty, unfilled jobs—not to reduce the size of an active and willing force. In reality, this is what a military reset actually looks like: streamlining, restructuring, and rebuilding into something stronger.

The bottom line is simple: when the military focuses on its core mission—winning wars, defending the homeland, and keeping America strong—people want to sign up. When it turns into another arm of leftist social engineering, they don’t. It’s not rocket science. And if this latest recruiting surge is any indication, it looks like young Americans are finally getting the message loud and clear.

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