U.S. Army Hits 2025 Recruiting Goals Four Months Early
The article discusses the U.S. Army’s achievement of meeting its 2025 recruiting goals four months early, as announced by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. This milestone, reported in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, marks the first time in over a decade the Army has met its goals by early June. Driscoll emphasized the importance of prioritizing soldiers and the Army’s mission, hoping more Americans will choose to serve. The article also highlights the struggles faced by the Army under the Biden governance in meeting recruitment targets, attributing some challenges to the focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. It mentions the renewed emphasis on a strong “warrior ethos” under the current administration, led by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which aims to restore military standards and cohesion. the article presents a mix of optimism about meeting recruitment goals and criticism of past administration policies.
The U.S. Army hit its 2025 recruiting goals four months ahead of schedule, the branch’s secretary announced Tuesday.
The news was revealed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed authored by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who described the branch meeting its 2025 fiscal year goal of 61,000 new recruits as “personal.” The achievement marks the first time in more than a decade that the service “met its recruiting goal in the first week of June,” according to the left-wing Stars and Stripes, citing a Driscoll spokesman.
“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 wrote. “The Army shaped me into the man I am today—and I know it will shape them, too.”
As indicated by Driscoll, the Army and the military writ large regularly struggled to meet their recruiting targets under the Biden administration.
Under the stewardship of then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Pentagon made advancing racist DEI ideology a top priority. Military specialists and veterans have long argued that implementation of such radical policies hampers the force’s overall cohesion and readiness.
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Since returning to office, President Donald Trump, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has focused on revitalizing a strong “warrior ethos” at the Defense Department. This has included actions to gut DEI and trans insanity from the service, restore key sex and fitness standards, reenlist troops booted over the Biden-era Covid shot mandate, and more.
“[F]rom day one at the Department of Defense, our overriding objectives have been clear: restore the warrior ethos, rebuild our military and reestablish deterrence,” Hegseth said in a speech last month. “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 sh-t.”
In a Tuesday tweet, the defense secretary called the Army hitting its 2025 recruiting targets “outstanding,” while Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell teased, “The best is yet to come!”
Other branches of the armed forces also appear to be on track to hit their FY2025 recruiting goals, according to past statements by military officials.
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