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Proclamation 10952 is a ceremonial presidential proclamation signed June 13, 2025, designating June 14, 2025 as a day of commemoration for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Army. It carries no regulatory or legislative force; it formally marks a date on the public record and expresses the President’s views. The Army’s founding date traces to June 14, 1775, when the Second Continental Congress voted to establish the Continental Army.
A proclamation of this type creates no new law, regulation, or enforceable requirement. It declares June 14, 2025 a commemorative day but does not make it a federal holiday or mandate any government action. The document also references several previously taken executive actions — removing DEI programs from the military, updating medical standards for transgender service members, and reinstating personnel dismissed for COVID-19 vaccine refusal with back pay — but those changes were made through separate prior directives, not through this proclamation. This document records and reaffirms those prior actions in the context of the anniversary but does not itself enact them.
No person or organization is directly subject to a new legal obligation as a result of this proclamation. Active-duty Army personnel and veterans are the symbolic audience; the document honors their service and sacrifice. Members of the public, historians, and government agencies may cite the proclamation as an official record of the Administration’s stated position on the Army’s history and its military policy priorities.