Shawn Fleetwood of the Federalist responds to recent military recruiting numbers.
America’s propaganda press have wound up with egg on their faces a few many times over the past several years. And that could not be truer than when it comes to the military recruitment crisis that helped define Joe Biden’s failed presidency.
On Monday, the Associated Press published a report revealing that the U.S. Marine Corps has reached its recruiting targets for the 2025 fiscal year. The achievement follows in the footsteps of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, all of which hit their FY2025 goals months ahead of schedule.
Naturally, the AP’s Konstantin Toropin seemingly did everything he could to downplay the Trump administration’s turnaround of the Biden-era recruiting crisis, pinning blame for the disaster on “complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, tight job markets and a growing generation of young Americans struggling to meet fitness and academic standards.” While noting how “the uptick [in recruitment] began well before President Donald Trump won office again in November,” he also “conveniently” omitted the fact that several of the branches axed traditional standards recruits were expected to meet to qualify for service under Biden.
It’s not hard to see why the AP and other media outlets are so eager to make excuses for the befuddled ex-president and his team’s failure to bring in qualified talent to the military. To do so would force them to admit that U.S. leadership does, in fact, matter to those seeking to serve their nation in uniform.
For four years under Biden, lethality and efficiency were traded in for so-called “diversity” and “inclusion.” Left-wing military leadership directed their sights on targeting what they made out to be “extremism” in the force (aka mainstream conservative beliefs), while America’s real adversaries were allowed to expand their geopolitical footprints virtually unchallenged.
From the very beginning, the Biden Pentagon’s message to patriotic Americans was clear: You’re not welcome here.
