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Many Americans are “too stupid” or “too fat” to serve in the military, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth But he celebrated recent positive recruiting numbers, he said at a gathering of top recruiters at the Pentagon on Thursday.
“I know it’s not easy to work on the basic stuff for recruiting,” hegseth Said“Too many of our youth are too fat or too dumb – not dumb, that’s wrong, You know, we’re not educating them properly or they have criminal records, or ADHD, or all these other things,”
Despite this claim, Hegseth continued to talk about the policies. trump administrationWhich has recently included A “Warrior Dividend” Bonus Check For soldiers, recruitment was increasing, nonetheless, a sign that young Americans “wanted to join a war-fighting unit, not a woke institution.”
Hegseth has focused on physical fitness throughout his tenure as Secretary, Competing in a pull-up challenge against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Railed against “fat generals” in a September speech Where he started new fitness testing on a large scale.
whatever effect trump administrationThere is a surge in recruitment due to the policies of Started before Trump took office,
In a dramatic change from 2022, when the Army missed its recruitment targets by about 25 percent, all service branches are set to achieve their targets by the end of fiscal year 2024.
Observers attribute the turnaround to several factors, including the pandemic’s easing and the return of recruits to school campuses, as well as programs like the Army’s Future Soldier Preparation Course, which helps marginalized recruits improve their testing and physical fitness scores to qualify for service.
This momentum has continued since Trump took power.
The Army is seeing its highest level of enlisted participation at the Pentagon in the last 15 years announced On Thursday, more military branches again met their recruiting targets for the 2025 fiscal year, which ends in September.
The Border Patrol has seen similarly encouraging signs and is training record numbers of recruits.
The Trump administration has spent a ton of money on immigration agencies like Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Unprecedented funding and huge recruitment bonuses Although the Department of Homeland Security is promoting its deportation campaign Allegedly It is struggling to meet its recruitment target of 10,000 people by the start of next year as new hires fail to meet physical fitness requirements.