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Pete Hegseth Makes Shocking Announcement
About Enlistment, Gives One Reason for
What We're Seeing

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/10/2025 12:17:31 AM

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a shocking announcement about enlistment after ridding the U.S. military of its woke invasion, and he credited President Donald Trump's leadership as the main reason. During Trump's cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, Hegseth revealed that recruitment and reenlistment were at record levels, exceeding goals they had set for the year. "We saw record recruitment in 2025, Mr. President," Hegseth said in front of the press. "The first two weeks of [Fiscal Year] 2026 [which starts in October] already blows that out …[FY 2026] already blows it out the water." "In fact, reenlistment has already reached

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Reply 1 - Posted by: skacmar 10/10/2025 7:07:36 AM (No. 2014819)
Yet liberal media and Democrats continue to claim that Hegseth is destroying the military and making it worse. Can they explain the record recruitment numbers? People are willing to join again because Hegseth has made the military respectable again. It is no longer as social experiment focused on social justice.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: billa57 10/10/2025 7:07:46 AM (No. 2014820)
Yes! And P.S., young men do not like to bunk with homosexuals.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: walcb 10/10/2025 7:12:14 AM (No. 2014826)
Libs will say reenlistment is up because there aren't any good jobs in the private sector.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Vaquero45 10/10/2025 9:57:43 AM (No. 2014909)
This story amuses me. Years ago, one of my younger brothers was the executive officer of a U.S. Army recruiting battalion. They would go to high school and college job fairs and set up elaborate tables full of brochures, and sit behind them in their dress uniforms and try to talk young people into joining the Army. Invariably, the Marine Corps recruiting station would set up next to them: one table, a few brochures, two recruiting sergeants wearing gold jump wings and dress blues trousers, and a pull-up bar. Young men would listen to the Army’s recruiting pitch and then turn to the two Marines and ask “what can the Marines offer me?” The Marines would always say “what makes you think you’re GOOD ENOUGH to join my Marine Corps? Hell, I’ll bet you can’t do two pull-ups!” Pretty soon, there would be no one at the Army’s display, and a line of ten guys waiting to do pull-ups while a Marine recruiter watched them. The second Marine recruiter would be busy signing them up. As a salty old Marine, I always liked hearing about that…
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JHHolliday 10/10/2025 10:39:02 AM (No. 2014935)
A good friend's son just finished his basic. He looked at a prouder US Army and decided a career there was now attractive. He's a smart kid and I think will probably end up as an officer. If all goes well under DJT (it already is) then we will have former Marine JD Vance for eight years more and the military will have more recruits than room for them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 10/10/2025 11:10:36 AM (No. 2014961)
Not shocking.
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