Pete Hegseth: “The average age of new recruits who have signed up in the last couple of years is two to three years older…”

“When you got a boss that backs you up like that, you just run fast and you run hard without apology. And so the young American people have responded. In fact, an interesting tidbit. The average age of new recruits who have signed up in the last couple of years is two to three years older than normal. Why is that? It's because a number of Americans wanted to wait two or three years to serve until they felt like they had leadership that would actually back them …” (10:58–11:06)

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