<p>The latest recruiting numbers from the United States Army have shown a precipitous drop-off in white recruits over the last several years – and among other factors, some insiders are blaming &#8220;partisan attacks against the military for its efforts to recruit and support a diverse force.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to a <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Wednesday by Military.com, white recruits were down 6% from 2022 to 2023 alone — and had dropped off by double digits since 2018, when just over half (56.4%) of all Army recruits were classified as &#8220;white.&#8221; In 2023, 44% of all Army recruits were classified as &#8220;white.&#8221;</p>
<p>In real numbers, there were 44,042 white recruits in 2018 — and that fell to just 25,070 in 2023. Recruiting numbers have decreased overall during that same period, resulting in the Army <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-pronouns-less-recruits-u-s-military-facing-unprecedented-recruiting-crisis-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing to meet</a> its recruiting goal of 55,000 in 2023 — but non-white demographics have seen increases by percentage over those same years.</p>
<p>Between 2018 and 2023, black recruits are up 4% (from 20% to 24%), and Hispanic recruits have risen 7% (from 17% to 24%). The overall numbers have not risen dramatically, but because white recruits have decreased in such numbers, other demographics now make up a larger percentage of the overall recruiting pool.</p>
<p>The Army has been working to encourage recruiting efforts and told Military.com that they could not nail down one specific cause — instead, they &#8220;pointed to a confluence of issues for Army recruiting, including partisan scrutiny of the service, a growing obesity epidemic and an underfunded public education system.&#8221;</p>
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<p>One other factor, they told the outlet, was the increase in &#8220;partisan&#8221; criticism of the military overall as it worked to embrace and implement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)</a> into both recruitment and retention across all branches of service.</p>
<p>The suggestion was that conservative media outlets and legislators, by attacking the military&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-military-recruit-forced-to-shower-with-two-trans-identifying-men-considered-resigning-senator-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adoption of &#8220;woke&#8221; policies</a>, had telegraphed to a &#8220;mostly white audience&#8221; that the Army was less attractive a career option than it had been in years past.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded. Now, you can say you don&#8217;t want to join, for whatever reason, or bad-mouth the service without any cultural guilt associated for the first time in those areas,&#8221; one Army official told the outlet.</p>

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