Army surpasses fiscal 2025 recruiting goal 4 months ahead of schedule

Fox News ^ | June 3, 2025 | Greg Wehner & Liz Friden

[Twotone]

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.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I would bet that getting rid of the trans people has a lot to do with it. Make the military proud to be macho again.

[Twotone]

Yep. There’s also this...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/harvey-milk-hegseth-ship-name

Title: Nancy Pelosi outraged after Defense Sec. Hegseth orders removal of gay icon’s name from naval ship

[The Louiswu]

"Critics who are opposed to honoring Milk point out that he appeared to reveal a sexual relationship when he was in his 30s with a male who was a minor at the time. His defenders claim that the age of consent was 16 years old in many states during that time."

You never see this part of his history...

[albie]

Obviously! And the fact they have a true leader and commander in chief

[roving]

I would be embarrassed serving a board of ship named milk. It was bad enough when I served aboard a ship named Dupont.

[Sacajaweau]

The ship was named thusly....for the wrong reason...and it should be removed.

[Mark]

There was mentioned that some could join and would be on path to U.S. citizenship.

[T.B. Yoits]

The targets were lowered. The total Army personnel is still down from a recent peak in 2010, a low in 2016, a slight rise to 2021 before a drop in 2022 and another in 2023.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232339/us-army-personnel-numbers/

Hard to fill the ranks with fatties, stoners, illegal aliens, those avoiding the Jim Jones Jab, and those unwilling to die for bankers.

[Texan5]

“The age of consent was 16 years old in many states during that time.” Ay, por favor-qué excusa tan ridícula. Just because the age of consent was 16 years, that does NOT make it okay to seduce/have sex with a minor. At 16, most people do not have the emotional maturity to consent to sex with a 30 year-old adult-that is called statutory rape. Harvey Milk was a predator if that info is true. If he did not do anything courageous in wartime-other than being gay-he doesn’t deserve to have a ship named after him...