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United States Army on Reddit. United States Army on Reddit Founded 2009 · 372.6K members

373.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 32.2K upvotes, which works out to 86 per 1,000 members.

86peak upvotes per 1,000 members
373.7Kmembers
32.2Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

50% 23% 13% 11%
Text 50% Question 23% Image 13% Link 11% Gallery 2% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

/r/All 1 Green to Gold Material 1 Easier to Read Transcript in Comments 1 Shitpost 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

↑ 32.2K 💬 1.5K link 2020

Trump cancels visit to US military cemetery because of 'poor weather'

↑ 28.7K 💬 98 link 2018

Sometimes The Onion's jokes are too real

↑ 19.4K 💬 452 image 2017

VA ICU nurse honors a recently-deceased veteran

↑ 16.4K 💬 48 video 2026

I am shocked at how incapable the Russian Army seems to be

↑ 16.3K 💬 2.2K text 2022

Hoping our Ukrainian brothers in arms give 'em hell

↑ 12.4K 💬 684 link 2022

Soldiers gonna Soldier no matter where they are (National Guard troops sleep on the floor of the Capitol Visitors Center)

↑ 8.2K 💬 610 image 2021

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth accidentally texts journalist war plans a couple hours before military operation in Yemen.

↑ 7.8K 💬 801 link 2025

What non-combat PTSD can look like

↑ 7.6K 💬 825 text 2018

JTF-DC soliders now taking landscaping orders from men in suits

↑ 7K 💬 822 video 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/army, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/army?
r/army ("United States Army on Reddit") describes itself this way: United States Army on Reddit. It was founded in 2009 and has 372.6K members.
How many members does r/army have?
r/army has about 373.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 32.2K upvotes, which is 86 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/army?
"James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution" reached 32.2K upvotes and 1.5K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/army.
What subreddits are similar to r/army?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/army?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are text posts and 23% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/army?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 04:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/army?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/army has 5.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 320 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/army, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.