The US Army hit its highest recruitment figures in more than a decade after President Donald Trump's re -election.
Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseeth announced the milestone on Tuesday.
'America's youth wants to serve' America First 'leadership of Donald Trump under the Bold & Strong, wrote the Chief Pentagon on X.
Hegseeth said that in December 2024 the recruitment of the army reached a peak of 12 years. That was then overshadowed by a 15-year high recruitment rate in January.
The former Fox News -Gastheer has not specified how many people joined themselves in those two months and the army did not immediately respond to a DailyMail.com request for clarification about the figures.
But the army placed at X that it was on average 346 soldiers every day in December, which means that about 10,700 was added to the schedule alone in that month.
The Golf shows the increasing interest of Americans who want to serve in the armed forces under the new government.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth announced on Tuesday that the US Army was a high recruitment in January for 15 years
The army said it recruited 346 soldiers every day in December, which means that around 10,700 were added to the selection in the month after Donald Trump was chosen the president
Hegseeth placed about the record -high recruitment in a post to X, and credited the increase in Trump's re -election
After a huge decrease in recruitment figures in the past four years, it came under President Joe Biden.
Thousands were dismissed from the service under Biden because of their refusal to meet the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that was established early in some term.
Hegseeth has again posted a tweet from an Alabama -based conservative radio presenter who wrote: 'There are several young men from my hometown who were planning to go to university, but have now registered to serve under Pete Hegseeth and Donald Trump!
“Our army will be at full power again by the end of the year thanks to the end of Dei and promoting meritocracy!” he added.
Immediately after the re -declining office, Trump signed an order that would give troops that were fired because they refused the coronavirus vaccine the chance to be restored, restored to their previous rank and back -pay and benefits that were lost during their time.
Another executive action wanted to free all agencies, including the Pentagon, from diversity, equity and inclusion (dei) practices that he said to ruin the credibility of government services.
The recruitment thrust comes in the middle of those orders and while Trump returned as supreme commander and Hegseeth, a veteran of the army, to lead to lead the Pentagon.
Thousands of marines and soldiers are used in the southern border to offer extra security and to prevent illegal border crossings. Displayed: Marines put barbed wire on the American southern border in San Ysidro, California on Monday 3 February
It also comes when soldiers are used in the push of the president to take over the operational control over the southern border and to help handle deportation of illegal immigrants.
While 2,600 marine and army troops were already used in the southern border, another 500 were sent to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to help expand the prison so that it can contain 30,000 migrants.
'On instructions of the President of the United States, and in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Ministry of Defense, US Army South (Usarsouth) has taken responsibility as the leading Joint Task Force for the continuous Illegal alien Foreign Affairs Operations at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 'the army said in a statement about the deployment.
