Army recruiting shatters records after President Trump election win

The U.S. Army precocious announced it shattered erstwhile recruiting records, with December 2024 being the astir productive December successful 15 years.

The subdivision reported it enlisted astir 350 soldiers each time that month, Army officials announced Tuesday connected societal media.

"Our Recruiters person 1 of the toughest jobs – inspiring the adjacent procreation of #Soldiers to serve. Congratulations and support up the large work! #BAYCB," Army recruiting officials wrote successful a station connected X.

Members of the Army National Guard successful formation. (U.S. Army National Guard photograph by Spc. Matthew A. Foster)

US ARMY CUTTING FORCE BY 24L AMID RECRUITING SHORTFALLS

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took to X to stock the news.

"BOTTOM LINE: America’s younker privation to service nether the bold & beardown "America First" enactment of [President Donald Trump] @realDonaldTrump."

The Army is making the Future Soldier Preparatory Course a imperishable program. (Nathan Clinebelle/U.S. Army)

In October 2023, the Army unveiled a bid of sweeping changes to its recruiting enterprise, including an expanded absorption connected a larger stock of the labour marketplace and the instauration of a specialized endowment acquisition workforce.

The Army surged aesculapian providers to Military Entrance Processing Stations crossed the state to assistance marque the enlistment process much efficient, and leveraged innovative caller technologies to scope expanded audiences and assistance place candidates funny successful subject service.

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There was besides a notable enlargement of the branch's Future Soldier Preparatory Course, which helps imaginable recruits flooded world and carnal fittingness barriers to service, portion allegedly "not sacrificing prime for quantity."

 U.S. Army drill sergeant corrects a enlistee during her archetypal time of grooming astatine Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Jan. 31, 2017. Referred to arsenic "Day Zero" this marks the opening of the recruit's travel done Basic Combat Training, wherever she volition modulation from a civilian to a soldier. U.S. Army photograph by Stephen Standifird (U.S. Army photograph by Stephen Standifird )

Still, the U.S. subject missed its recruiting goals by 41,000 successful 2023.

In 2024, the Army announced it was cutting its unit by 24,000 successful a restructuring to "help the work combat successful aboriginal wars."

The astir 5 percent of jobs chopped affected posts that remained empty, according to the Army.

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Fox News Digital's Stephen Sorace contributed to this story.