by Dan Hart at The Washington Stand
In a remarkable turnaround from the Biden years, the U.S. Army is meeting its recruiting goals with flying colors. The military branch reported this week that it has met its 2025 goal of 61,000 new recruits four months ahead of schedule. Experts say the reversal is due to inspiring new leadership in the White House and at the Pentagon, who are returning the focus of the military to core values such as strength and readiness and away from controversial identity-focused ideologies.
The Army recruitment boom met a goal that was 10% higher than in 2024, according to an Army Times report Tuesday. It also marks a definitive reversal of the downward trend in recruiting that occurred in 2022 and 2023, when the Army fell 15,000 and 11,000 short of its recruitment goals, respectively.
During those years, the Biden administration grabbed headlines for inserting highly controversial agendas into the military, including West Point cadets being inundated with lessons on critical race theory (CRT) that included how “whiteness” is “a location of structural advantage, of race privilege” and how “racism is ordinary” and “White Americans have primarily benefited from civil rights legislation.” In addition, drag shows were held on military bases as gender ideology was ensconced into military policies, including the changing of Department of Defense vocabulary to reflect transgender ideology, the allowance of cross-dressing on and off-base, and the restriction of the “collection and disclosure of data on ‘incidents of harmful behaviors’ involving sexual orientation and transgender persons,” among other policies.
In contrast,…
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