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John, I'll do some numbers for you !!!

The Army is poised to easily hit its recruiting target this year as the service has made enormous gains in filling the ranks ahead of its traditional summer rush of new enlistments.

As of last week, the Army had enlisted 51,837 recruits, or 85% of its 61,000 target for fiscal 2025, according service data provided to Military.com. A significant portion of that total -- roughly 14,000 -- comes from the service's delayed-entry program, or DEP, which is composed of recruits who signed up last year but are only now shipping out to basic training.

2024            53,000 recruited
2025            61,000 target
as of June     51,837 recruited
Minus DEP     37,837  Trump administration recruits in less than 1/2 year
Double it       75,674  probable # this year and that doesn't account for the back half being the
                                stronger recruiting season.

Those #'s tell me the Army is having a hell of a recruitment year under the Trump Administration.