News Military Officials temper Hegseth claim of Army recruiting renaissance under Trump June 13, 2025 Updated Sat., June 14, 2025 at 8:36 p.m. In a 2004 photo, recruits march in front of the basic ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others have highlighted the “Trump bump” in recruiting wins. Officials and experts say it’s a bit more complicated.

Madison Bonzo, a spokeswoman for Army Recruiting Command, said that 11,000 of the 61,000 recruits the service is now celebrating enlisted last fiscal year through the delayed entry program.

The U.S. Army announced on Tuesday that it has reached its Fiscal Year 2025 recruiting goals for active-duty soldiers by recruiting over 61,000 new soldiers four months early under President Donald ...

The milestone marks a significant turnaround for the branch that struggled in recent years to bring in new soldiers, falling short of its recruitment goals in both the 2023 and 2022 fiscal years, ...

The U.S. Army hit its recruiting goal four months early, reaching the 61,000 target before the Sept. 30 deadline. The Army's goal this year is more than 10% higher than the 55,000 recruitment target ...

The move stems from a directive from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to transform and streamline the military and eliminate “wasteful spending.” In an April 30 memo from Hegseth to senior Pentagon ...

Fraud Alert: You Are Not Being Drafted, US Army Says The U.S. Army is still the place where one can “be all that you can be,” but no draft is coming to the country, despite a string of fraudulent ...

It remains unclear why the Army is losing so many soldiers, but one explanation could be the declining quality of its recruiting pool. One-quarter of all enlistees last year had to go through at ...

The United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) hosted a ribbon cutting event for it’s new Army recruitment office Friday at 1423 NW 67th St. Formerly located at Central Plaza, the office shares a ...

The decision comes after the Army and other services dropped recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event in Baltimore this month, despite Army Recruiting Command's long-standing ...

"U.S. Army Recruiting Command is on track to exceed the fiscal year 2025 recruitment goal of 61,000 new Soldiers and an additional 10,000 in the Delayed Entry Program," Madison Bonzo, Army ...