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Pete Hegseth: “Recruiting in the United States military at the Department of War is a decades-long record.”

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So from the Air Force to the Space Force to the Navy to the army to the Marine Corps to the National Guard to the reserves to our pilots to Special Forces, Recruiting in the United States military at the Department of War is a decades-long record. decades long records. In fact one stat we go by fiscal years in our department. So September 31st was the end of the fiscal year. The Marine Corps smashed its recruiting records. (12:10–12:26)

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Asserts that U.S. military recruiting is at a record high.

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