{"id":170193,"date":"2025-06-04T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170193"},"modified":"2025-06-04T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:52:43","slug":"army-recruiting-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170193","title":{"rendered":"Army Recruiting Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170203 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/army.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/army.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/army-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Todd South<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army has met its fiscal 2025 recruiting goal four months early, signing 61,000 contracts for new active duty soldiers, officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis achievement represents a significant turning point for the Army and indicates a renewed sense of patriotism and purpose among America\u2019s youth,\u201d the Army said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was 10% higher than the 55,000 recruits the Army sought last year. Average contracts per day exceeded last year\u2019s levels by as much as 56% during the same period, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of our U.S. Army recruiters and drill sergeants,\u201d said Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. \u201cTheir colossal efforts and dedication to duty helped the U.S. Army accomplish our FY25 annual recruiting goal a full four months ahead of schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year marked the first time the Army had reached its recruiting goals in two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2025\/06\/03\/army-hits-recruiting-goal-of-61000-soldiers-4-months-early\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazing turn-around in attracting candidates for Army recruiting after struggling for so long. What could have caused such a sea-change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early By Todd South The Army has &hellip; <a title=\"Army Recruiting Soars\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170193\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army Recruiting Soars<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":170203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news","category-bravo-zulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170193","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}