Daniel P. Driscoll

Man, you're making me want to join again.

How has recruitment been?

We've been just fucking crushing.

I am so excited every time I see the president to just tell him how, I mean, when I talk to soldiers and we try to be out of the building at least 50% of our time, they can feel a difference under President Trump.

They feel like they get to be the warrior class again.

There are two different numbers we look at.

Basically, the recruiting numbers of the leading indicator of the health of our army from a human perspective is the recruiting numbers.

So we hit our 12-month goal seven, eight-ish months into the year.

We have probably 30% in our waiting pool for the next year in our depth.

We are just on fire.

And then kind of equally or more important to my mind is our retention numbers.

And so these are soldiers in our formations who are getting to see what our leadership is like, who are getting to see are we empowering them to be innovators, who are getting to see are we preparing them for the next major conflict.

And our retention numbers, we hit our 12-month goal six months into the year.

And so we are on absolute fire under the president's leadership with people wanting to serve in the United States Army again.

So the problem...

The problem with that class of person is they are very good at optimizing for the preferences of the day.

And so what you don't spot is obviously is you don't spot them pushing back in a way that you can pinpoint necessarily.

because they optimize for whoever the current leadership is.

And that's what makes them so hard to root out sometimes is you wouldn't see an offensive or like a kinetic pushback.

You actually just try to sniff out, well, wait a second, when we leave power, are you the type of person that will continue to be a leader of men and women?