U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive

| February 6, 2025

The U.S. Army announced that it shattered previous recruiting records last year. In December 2024, the Army averaged nearly 350 enlistments a day. On X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth highlighted the desire for Americans, from the targeted recruiting demographic, to serve under bold & strong leadership. The Army also cut its force by 24,000, which consisted of empty positions left unfilled.

From Fox News:

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.

“Our Recruiters have one of the toughest jobs — inspiring the next generation of #Soldiers to serve. Congratulations and keep up the great work! #BAYCB,” Army recruiting officials wrote in a post on X.

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.”

Additional Reading:

Koch, A. (2025, February 4). Army recruiting shatters records after President Trump election win. Fox News. Link.

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Grunt

I thought Commissar (our little bottom) said that nobody would want to serve in the military in a Trump administration.

Fyrfighter

Yep, he did, and like most everything else he says, it was completely wrong…

SFC D

It’s like he’s just not trying anymore. He won’t apply himself.

Fyrfighter

He’s relying too much on sparkle mark to pick up the slack..

Commissar Pooper's Narcissism

Remember when you guys kicked my ass
And I begged you guys to let me win
Because I’d go berserk?

Well, my ass got kicked anyhow
And then the kickings got worse and worse
And now you guys see I’ve gone completely out of my mind, and

They’re coming to take me away, ha-ha
They’re coming to take me away
Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha, to the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats

And they’re coming to take me away, ha-ha

You guys thought it was funny
And so you guys trolled and laughed
When I had said that my losing would make me flip my lid, right?

You guys laughed, I heard you guys laugh
You guys laughed, laughed and laughed
You guys trolled me more, and I’m utterly mad, and
They’re coming to take me away, ha-ha
They’re coming to take me away
Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha, to the happy home
With trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket-weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes

And they’re coming to take me away, ha-ha

I educated and enlightened you guys
And this is how you pay me back for that California wisdom?
Well, you guys just wait, ANTIFA will find you yet
And when they do, they’ll throw bricks at you guys

They’re coming to take me away, ha-ha
They’re coming to take me away
Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha, to the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats

And they’re coming to take me away, ha-ha
To the happy home

With trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes

And they’re coming to take me away, ha-ha
To the funny farm

Where life is beautiful all the time

And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats

David

Well done!

Roh-Dog

ANTIFA will find you yet

And when they do, they’ll throw bricks at you guys

On advice from counsel I will not describe in lurid detail how happy this’d make me.

KoB

Threatening us with a good time are they?

A Proud Infidel®™

Let them try their shit in my neck of the woods, then me end my neighbors would automatically go into “OPEN SEASON, NO BAG LIMIT” mode!

Commissioner Wretched

Outstanding! Napoleon XIV himself would approve! Very well done!

A Proud Infidel®️™️

OH NO, was he completely full of shit yet again for at least the 31,241st time?

UpNorth

Now that you mention it, yes, yes he was.

Fyrfighter

Interesting AI image.. looks like an old tractor mounting a couple gatling guns..

5JC

See Joe Biden accomplished more in the months of November, December and January then he did in four years in the White House, four years in the observatory, and 73 years in the Senate.

2banana

Amazing what a real leader can accomplish.

And with really no silly nationwide advertising except…no more hate whitey DEI

Sapper3307

WINNING!

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SFC D

You sir, are going to hell. Save me a seat. And I stole your meme. Neener neener!

A Proud Infidel®️™️

LMAO, I’ll be right next to you!

SFC D

We’re gonna need a bigger bench.

KoB

Bigger bench, Hell…we’re gonna need “stadium seating”!

Andy11M

I wonder if the new record happened because of the fat bodies and ASVAB waivers going to the prep courses?

5JC

If I am the program manager not only is that 100% true I will also bombard you with statistics until you kneel before me and submit to my greatness.

HT3

Imagine my shock…

9jatne
A Proud Infidel®️™️

WELL GEE WHIZ, DEI and trans handouts being thrown out with yesterday’s trash, and suddenly many more want to join, ya-think the liberals were full of shit once again?

KoB

Speaking of warm and fuzzy (puppies not titties)…it’s all warm and fuzzy that folks are volunteering to serve now that we have adults (and a Warrior) back in charge, but…We picked up @ 350 a day X 31 days, a total of 10,850 new recruits and eliminated 24,000, giving us a net loss of 13,150 troops. Hmmm Now, if we operate on the idea that say 10% of the new recruits don’t make it thru training, for whatever reason, it raises the net loss by another 1,085…+-. The key thing here is (a) was the reduction something that needed to be done and got rid of slots or was it pencil whipping the #s to “reach a goal”? And (b) will the recruitment #s continue on that same pace? I’ll defray those questions to someone that is more up to date on force requirements. Maybe we’ll be OK since it seems as if the “forever wars” are winding down a bit and the chances of us sending troops to the ‘kraine have lessened.

We’ll see.

5JC

December is typically one of the biggest loss months and weakest recruiting months for obvious reasons. I wouldn’t expect to lose 24k soldiers a month. That would be 50% turn over of the Army a year, practically impossible.

HT3

Just curious…
You sound like you were a recruiter. In 1983, I signed up for the Navy Delayed Entry Program in March, but I didn’t ship-out to basic until December. Would I count for March or December?

5JC

I was a recruiting company commander for two years as a second company Command. It’s been a while but not much has changed.

In the Army you would have counted the day you signed. If you had failed to ship in December you would count as a contract loss for December and the recruiters would be scrambling to make it up.

KoB

From the article…”Still, the U.S. military missed its recruiting goals by 41,000 in 2023.”

Seems like I remember us talking about that sometime in the past and that reducing the # of troops required mitigated the shortfall in recruiting. Seems like we may have inactivated a Division (25th Inf?) recently in a “re-alignment”. With 10K-15K troops per division (these days) that shortfall of 41K is 3-4 divisions. Now I doubt very seriously that we’ll lose 24K troops a month, again, no clue on turnover between ETS and enlistments on a yearly basis. Having the right amount of “Headcount” is difficult in the military AND the civilian force. Keep the pipeline full, get them well trained and ready to fill an empty slot is a crap shoot. Almost famine to feast. Crystal Ball for future needs, anyone?

I also wonder, as questioned above, how many of the December recruits were ones that passed the pre basic training pipeline that has been much ballyhooed this past year and were counted in December’s #s.

I do appreciate the fact that the #s are going up and hope that the training of our future warriors concentrates on killing our enemies and breaking their sh*t instead of which pronoun they need to use.

GIJane

Under the Biden regime, warrior ethos was replaced by psychobabble and corrupt social engineering. Soldiers are supposed to understand enemy tactics and study great military strategists ( i.e. von Clausewitz, Patton, Sun Tzu), not worry about driving a wedge between themselves and their fellow troops with divisive racist policies.
While Biden and the Pentagon pushed the “woke” shit rather than focusing on combat readiness, our enemies were laughing their asses off. Instead of honing warfighting skills, West Point cadets were pummeled with “Critical Race Theory”. One of the instructors forced cadets to call cops “murderers”. While the military was busy getting “woke”, Russia and China are rattling sabers and engaging in actual military threats.
No one in their right mind wanted to serve under an assclown who turned the military into mush. The adults are back in charge.

KoB

Testify, Girl Fren’!

ps…re-bookmarked your linky’s home page. Had lost that one in the crash awhile back. I can go back to lurking there. Thanks!

SFC D

Bookmarked it myself! Signal corps law requires me to support 31M’s, even if they stray! Awesome blog!

KoB

Indeed!

rgr769

Moreover, the Ruskies are getting plenty of actual combat experience.

Jimbojszz

A friend of mine who fought (Marine) in Korea at the Chosin said that waves of Chinese would advance on them, not all of the ones in the following wave had weapons. As one died the ones following would collect weapons and advanced. A Real meat wave.

I hear that Russians deserters are being handcuffed together and brought to the front in groups to fight. They’re given weapons when they get to the front.

Must be a communist tactic to clean non believers from the motherland.

Jimbojszz

Except there will not be anyone left to train, because of the meat wave tactics.