Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis had four combat deployments during his 21 years in the Army, and is a two-time Bronze Star recipient. Now, he is a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, a foreign policy think tank.
He said people stopped joining the military during the Biden administration because it was viewed as “woke” and because the top military brass in Washington were more interested in playing politics than defending the country.
“They’re like, ‘We just don’t feel like we can trust these guys,’ and so they’re proving it by not joining up,” Davis told Fox News Digital. “And one of the bigger things was, the guys who have been in, guys like me, for example – if someone asked us, ‘Do you think we should join up?’ I would have said ‘No.’ I didn’t trust the military leaders and I didn’t trust the administration.”
But with Trump in office, Davis thinks the pendulum is swinging in the other direction.
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