We'll have to see 2025 actuals. Including numbers from 2020-2022 throws off the analysis. Among young American men there definitely seems to be more enthusiasm than prior decade. In 2000s, recruiters were pushing hard. Many of my peers joined, Marines being very appealing to us...Coast Guard would have been my choice in hindsight
I mean post grad unemployment is at the highest its been in a long time and the military is a job.
It would not shock me to see enrollment figures climb significantly with AI taking entry level jobs end the amount of outsourcing. People still have to put bread on the table and it's a job that pays at least.