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Army recruiting shatters records after President Trump election win
FOX NEWS ^ | February 4, 2025 | Alexandra Koch

Posted on 02/05/2025 8:16:35 AM PST by artichokegrower

The U.S. Army recently announced it shattered previous recruiting records, with December 2024 being the most productive December in 15 years.

The branch reported it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers every day that month, Army officials announced Tuesday on social media.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: army; military; recruiting
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took to X to share the news.

"BOTTOM LINE: America’s youth want to serve under the bold & strong "America First" leadership of [President Donald Trump] @realDonaldTrump."


Go figure

1 posted on 02/05/2025 8:16:35 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Who knew, right? /s


2 posted on 02/05/2025 8:17:30 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: artichokegrower

These are actual males and females too!!


3 posted on 02/05/2025 8:18:03 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: artichokegrower

Hopefully these aren’t infiltrators.


4 posted on 02/05/2025 8:19:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I am quite sure they are not 😀

What a joy, and congratulations to America from this humble handicapped man 😀


5 posted on 02/05/2025 8:21:44 AM PST by Menes (Thank you, America, for giving us hope!)
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To: artichokegrower

Hoping this reflects a new wave of freedom loving Americans that have rejected all the woke crap and will restore our principles.


6 posted on 02/05/2025 8:22:56 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: albie

And I hope there’s no wokism this time around.


7 posted on 02/05/2025 8:27:58 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dfwgator

I hope they’re not either.


8 posted on 02/05/2025 8:28:48 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: artichokegrower

Wow! Over 10,000 in just one month! A lot of these people were on the fence until Nov 6 I’d bet.


9 posted on 02/05/2025 8:43:05 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: artichokegrower

You’d think that would wake up the left but they’re to stuck on stupid.


10 posted on 02/05/2025 8:49:59 AM PST by Mastador1
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To: artichokegrower
__ Tired of winning

Not tired of winning

11 posted on 02/05/2025 8:54:01 AM PST by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: artichokegrower

His Truth is marching on!!!


12 posted on 02/05/2025 8:58:54 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: albie

“A lot of these people were on the fence until Nov 6 I’d bet.”

Yeah they were.

No doubt.


13 posted on 02/05/2025 9:00:04 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: artichokegrower

Lots of people want to defend our country - they just don’t want to give their lives defending democrat graft hellholes... under the direction of officers who got their jobs ... well,you know...


14 posted on 02/05/2025 9:00:50 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: artichokegrower

“Army recruiting shatters records after President Trump election win”

That’s what happens when the Commander in Chief is a MAN and not a vegetable.


15 posted on 02/05/2025 9:02:48 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The same people who are outraged at "cultural appropriation" fully support "gender appropriation".)
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To: artichokegrower

I’m not surprised at all.


16 posted on 02/05/2025 9:41:10 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: artichokegrower

Females being heavily pursued for enlistment, expansion of a 3 month course to PREPARE for a SOFTER basic training than in the past, a basic so weak that that it has female Drill Sergeants.

I don’t think we will ever fully recover from the bi-partisan breaking of the military.


17 posted on 02/05/2025 11:13:15 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: artichokegrower

I really dreaded the impact on recruiting if we had Kamala as commander in chief. The numbers would drop to historical lows and we would have a bunch of guys in dresses un basic training


18 posted on 02/05/2025 11:17:32 AM PST by chuckee
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To: dfwgator
Hopefully these aren’t infiltrators.

di

19 posted on 02/05/2025 11:25:19 AM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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They won’t last long if there is.


20 posted on 02/05/2025 3:51:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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