{"id":166164,"date":"2025-02-06T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166164"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:20:44","slug":"u-s-army-shatters-recruiting-records-in-2024-december-was-the-most-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166164","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Army-drone-firing-laser.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; strong leadership. The Army also cut its force by 24,000, which consisted of empty positions left unfilled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army recently announced it shattered previous recruiting records, with December 2024 being the most productive December in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The branch reported it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers every day that month, Army officials announced Tuesday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Recruiters have one of the toughest jobs &#8212; inspiring the next generation of #Soldiers to serve. Congratulations and keep up the great work! #BAYCB,&#8221; Army recruiting officials wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took to X to share the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BOTTOM LINE: America&#8217;s youth want to serve under the bold &amp; strong &#8220;America First&#8221; leadership of [President Donald Trump] @realDonaldTrump.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Koch, A. (2025, February 4). Army recruiting shatters records after President Trump election win. <em>Fox News<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/army-recruiting-shatters-records-after-president-trump-election-win-inauguration\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army announced that it shattered previous recruiting records last year. In December 2024, the &hellip; <a title=\"U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166164\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Army shatters recruiting records in 2024, December was the most productive<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}