Military employment is up, but the trend with data began before the election, say current and former military officials

Defense Minister Pete Hegsetth and Senator Tom Cotton are attributed to increased Military recruit numbers to “America first” leadership and “Trump’s effect”. However, the data indicate that recruiting numbers began to improve months before US presidential elections, according to current and former officials.

“You had a number of young men and women who did not want to join the military in the last four years under Joe Biden and Christine Wormuth, a former military secretary, when they thought he was more focused on Wokeness and Dei and climate change,” Cotton told Fox American newsroom. “That’s why young men and women join our army. They do it because they love the country.”

He began his persistent employment months before his election on November 5th.

“No, it didn’t start in December,” said former army minister Christine Wormuth, who served until January 20, in an interview with Fox News.

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“The recruitment of the army began better. We really started seeing numbers, monthly numbers, increasing in February 2024. We saw each other in a high 5,000 contracts a month, and that is accelerated, you know, in the spring until August, when the army is really really peaked. “

Starting in October 2023, the army put 1,200 more recruits in the area. By September 2024, before the election, the army announced that it had exceeded its goals of recruitment.

The basics were placed that October when Wormuth and Gen Randy George, head of the army, began a strong initiative to help those who did not meet academic standards or fitness requirements. The six -week camp before boots, called Future Soldier Prep Cours, helps recruit lower performance to fill in the enrollment standards. They also moved away from only employment in high schools until posting on work plates. The recruits were trained by Amazon, Wells Fargo and other industry leaders in talent collecting. And the army returned “Be everything you can be“1980 brand campaign.

“We have chosen soldiers who have personality that are more appropriate for employment. We have improved our marketing very dramatically in the sense that we are very focused on data and very targeted. And then, of course, the future preparatory course, which the army established some time ago, was is a great success and last year is about 25% of the new recruits that have come in, “Wormuth said. “If you look at our army ads, we show young people, you know, jump out of helicopters. We show children how to work, you know, night patrols in the jungle.”

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Military data It shows that the army struggled with recruiting numbers from coids, including a lack of 15,000 recruits in 2022.

He reported a record employment in December 2024, with almost 350 recruits that are reported daily, and the total number of active duties has reached 5877 recruits that month. Hegsetth Secretary praised recruit numbers in the post on X:

“@Usarmy: @usarec had his most productive December in 15 years by enrolling 346 soldiers daily in the world’s largest #usarmy!

“Our recruits have one of the most difficult jobs – inspiring the next generation #soldiers for service.

“Congratulations and continue with a big job!”

But last year, three months before the election, he recorded a larger number of recruits than in December – 7,415 recruits compared to 5,877 in December. And January 2025. It still has not surpassed August 2024. For the largest monthly number last year.

In other words, a positive employment trend began before the election.

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Increased employment numbers are a consequence of more women who join. Women made up 19% of recruits last year, which is the highest rate to date.

“For example, it is just 16% of the total army of a woman. And so, a year in which almost 20% of new women’s recruits are a significant increase,” Wormuth said. “In 2024. We also had the highest year of recruitment for Hispanic American.”

Landing of about 10-12 weeks from the moment the recruit enters the employment office and actually applied for medical examinations and other paperwork.

“The biggest reasons why young people are hesitant to join the army is for fear of death or injury, the fear of leaving their families, the feeling that maybe somehow, you know, to join the army for a while,” Wormuth said. “The concern about the so -called well -being is very low on the obstacle list for most young people. And the last time the army led that poll, we did not see the change. That remains a little concern.”

During their employment crisis, the army saw a decline in the number of families who usually send their children to serve, families whose members served for generations. Many of these families were usually white from one of 10 countries that make up almost half of recruit: Texas (13.3%), California (10.5%), Florida (9.7%), Georgia (5.1% N ).

There is no information that suggests the increase in white males who joined the army last year. In FY2024, 40% of military recruits were Caucasus, 25% were black and 26% Latin American.

“From the information we saw, there was no visible change of young whites who joined the army compared to the spring of 2024. The army had about 7400 recruits in August, and there were about 5800 in December,” Wormuth said.

The army was also supposed to expand its basic training capacity in the spring.

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“The US Army Employment Command exceeds the Fiscal year 2025 employment goal of 61,000 new soldiers and an additional 10,000 in the delayed entry program,” a spokeswoman for the US Army, a spokeswoman for the US Army Command, said in a statement. “As of today, USarec has infected 59% of the current FY25 goal. Our success could not be possible without hard work of our recruits, the transformation of the employment of businesses and modernization continued to attract a qualified talent to the most deadly combat power in America.”

Wormuth said, “I would say we saw in an army hiring numbers, we started seeing how we really get a traction in February 2024.”

“And we continued to build these numbers up to approximately, you know, 5,000, 6,000 a month in August. And the army continued this momentum that would enter by the end of the year. And I think the winds on the back of the army for coming in 2025.” .

Former military officials warn that it is dangerous to connect the successes of the army that employs success success with the election cycle, since the army should be apolitical. The soldiers report that they do not serve the president or party, but to serve the Constitution.