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Jim Banks: “The best Navy recruitment in 20 years, the best army…”

Featuring: Jim Banks, Republican | U.S. Senate, Indiana

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Jim Banks and Pete Hegseth Discuss Military Recruitment Surge Under Trump

Published | Video Starts at 02:21

I call it the Trump bump, because it did. It did begin on one day. But every month since, we've seen those recruitments for the army and the Navy, especially the. The best Navy recruitment in 20 years, the best army recruitment in 15 years. How do we keep that up? Well, sir, I think we keep that up by staying true to what we said we would do to those young Americans, their families. (02:21–02:27)

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Asserts that the Navy and Army had their best recruitment in 20 and 15 years, respectively.

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