Air Force and Space Force Smash Annual Recruiting Goals Months Ahead of Schedule

After years of the Biden administration failing to meet recruitment targets, the armed forces keeps breaking records under Trump. 

The Department of the Air Force announced earlier this week that both the Air Force and Space Force have exceeded their fiscal year 2025 recruiting goals three months ahead of schedule.

Nearly 31,000 new recruits have been secured across both services, with the Air Force bringing in 30,100 recruits and the Space Force reaching its target of 797.

The month after the 2024 election, December, was the Army’s best recruiting month in 12 years. January 2025 was then the Army's best recruiting month in 15 years.

Meanwhile, the army reported last month that they hit their recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers four months early. Fiscal year 2025’s goal was 10% higher than the number of recruits the Army sought last year, and the average number of  contracts per day exceeded last year’s levels by as much as 56% during the same period, according to a press release.