America is no longer going to be weak. Under Trump, our enemies are starting to fear us again.
Now the US Army rushed a report to Donald Trump’s desk that could be a game-changer.
The U.S. Army reported record-breaking recruitment numbers in December—just weeks after President Donald Trump secured reelection.
According to the Army, last month marked the most successful recruitment period in 15 years, with an impressive average of 346 new enlistees joining each day.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directly credited Trump’s leadership for the surge, saying that young Americans “want to serve under the bold & strong ‘America First’ leadership” of the Trump administration.
The news comes on the heels of a major overhaul in military policy. In a decisive effort to restore discipline and cohesion, Trump moved swiftly to eliminate radical “woke” programs that had plagued the armed forces under his predecessor.
In late January, the president signed three executive orders aimed at purging left-wing ideology from the military.
As CatholicVote reported, these orders “prohibited people from serving in the military while simultaneously identifying as ‘transgender,’ banned programs teaching critical race theory (CRT) in the armed forces, and reinstated over 8,000 service members who were expelled from the military for declining COVID shots.”
Another executive order reversed a controversial Biden-era policy that funneled taxpayer dollars into covering travel costs for military personnel seeking out-of-state abortions.
Under the Biden administration, recruitment numbers had plummeted. The Army failed to meet its goals in both 2022 and 2023, managing to hit only 74.8% and 76.6% of its targets, respectively.
The Department of Defense (DoD) blamed the collapse on a “strong economy,” a shrinking pool of eligible recruits, and “low trust” in the military among Generation Z.
But many pointed the finger at the Pentagon’s relentless push for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that turned the military into a leftist social experiment.
Hegseth has been blunt about the damage these policies caused, arguing that DEI initiatives “detracted from the military’s core mission of keeping the country safe,” according to the Washington Examiner.
The contrast in messaging couldn’t be clearer. Trump’s Pentagon is focusing on warfighters, discipline, and national defense. New Army recruitment ads reflect this shift, featuring traditional warrior ethos slogans like “We fight to WIN” and “Strong Soldiers = Effective Warfighters.”
That’s a far cry from the embarrassing 2021 recruitment ad under Biden, which featured a young woman raised by two moms, linking LGBTQ activism to military service—a campaign that was widely mocked for treating the armed forces like a college diversity seminar.
At a recent Pentagon Town Hall, Hegseth emphasized the need to “get back to the basics” and restore the kind of messaging that actually inspires America’s best and brightest to enlist.
“I think we’ve seen an enthusiasm and excitement from young men and women who want to join the military actively because they are interested in being a part of the finest fighting force the world has to offer,” he said.
With recruitment numbers now surging, it’s clear: under Trump, the U.S. military is once again putting strength, patriotism, and readiness above political correctness.
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