This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Under Joe Biden, the U.S. military was facing a recruitment crisis.
His pro-LGBT ideology included schemes to use artificial diversity, equity and inclusion quotas for military duties, putting women sometimes in jobs they could not physically accomplish, dragged the Army, and more, down.
It's back up, under President Donald Trump.
He's dispensed with the DEI politics, put transgenders on notice, and through his War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has confirmed that members of the military will be required to have the physical ability and strength to do the jobs they are required to do. That's to include, sometimes, fighting a war.
A new report at the Federalist described the situation as this: "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."
That's as part of that "propaganda press," the Associated Press, admitted that the U.S. Marine Corps had reached its recruiting targets for 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," the report said.
"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," the Federalist explained.
It said the excuses are coming for the "befuddled ex-president" because without them, outlets would have to admit U.S. leadership "does, in fact, matter to those seeking to serve their nation in uniform."
The Federalist explained that Biden's message to patriotic Americans was clear from the start, "You're not welcome here."
His years of giving up on lethality and efficiency in exchange for diversity and inclusion resulted in "America's real adversaries" expanding their geopolitical footprints virtually unchallenged, the report said.
Trump and Hegseth just this week, the report noted, made it clear that "failed leftist dogma" is out at the military, and "winning wars" is "No. 1."
"No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before and will say again, we are done with that s—," Hegseth charged.
"As hard as leftists may find it to believe, young men don't want to join a military whose commander-in-chief pushes racist DEI ideology, fires them for not taking an experimental shot, and keeps checking his watch as the bodies of their brothers and sisters in arms arrive home in flag-draped coffins — a tragedy which Biden himself is responsible for. They want leaders who love America as much as they do and will stand with them when their backs are against the wall," the report said.
Under Biden, the Army fell 15,000 short of its enlistment goal in 2022, and the next year, it brought in 50,000 recruits, well below its goal of 65,000. That year, the Navy and the Air Force also missed recruitment targets.
