Maybe Biden will offer new recruits a lifetime supply of Bud Light We’re in a war now? With whom, Russia? They can’t even beat the Ukrainians. Not the Chinese. China is terrified to take Taiwan and that want Taiwan more than Russia wants Ukraine. Get a grip. A lot of global military tensions is actually going our way. Think about that for a minute. Is Russia stronger now than prior to invading Ukraine? What about China, has their posturing gotten them any concessions? These two have achieved a new echelon on losing. Even their economic strategy went to shit with the pairing of the ruble and yuan for settlements. Back to the thread though… The top three reasons survey respondents cited for not wanting to join the military were fear of death, worries about post-traumatic stress disorder, and leaving friends and family, according to the AP. Meanwhile, just 5% of respondents listed "wokeness" as an issue, according to the newswire. By contrast, 13% said they believe women and minorities will face discrimination and not get the same opportunities. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/23/republicans-double-down-woke-criticism-after-army-says-safety-top-recruiting-challenge.html/amp Interestingly, the last two years have also been very high recruitment goals, 60k and 65k. Which +20k over the previous year.
It is an election year, and you are a shill for biden, so, as always, you must rise to say that there is no problem anywhere. In fact, military recruitment is a ticking time bomb. More and more work is required to recruit from a diminished pool of potential recruits who increasingly are obese, otherwise unfit, require all sorts of waivers for drug use and criminal history, and fewer and fewer can pass the basic exam with math and reading being required to even attempt it. So, not only are their issues related to achieving the overall number of recruits needed but there are quality issues resulting from the games played to get many of the ones that do enlist. This of course is not to say that there are not many extremely capable enlistees- because of course there are many. But that causes the related problem of the military's decreasing retention rate where - especially the officers- leave earlier and to get away from all the jaundiced bureaucracy and woke diversions. Anyway. You earned your potato. And if the Biden administration wants to- and apparently it does- publicly disseminate freaky and pervy recruitment ads as he is running for president, then I am not going to get in the way of that. I am all for it. No doubt you thought- and still do- that Budweiser had a great marketing plan too. Navy SEAL who helped kill bin Laden fuming over drag queen ambassador: ‘I can’t believe I fought for this bulls–t’ https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/ex-na...in-laden-outraged-over-drag-queen-ambassador/
Well now you’re getting down to it. And I don’t have much to disagree with here. I don’t like the recruitment strategy of soldier by day, drag Queen by night, myself. I’d rather see be all can be and soldier students, etc. And yeah lots of factors are disqualifying would be recruits. The general population is only 23% fit to serve to begin with. That includes physical and medical fitness, along with criminal and drug issues disqualify a lot of people. In the old system you could fudge or pencil over some of the stuff but with the new medical and criminal records systems there is very little discretion and recruits are automatically disqualified. It’s a real problem. I haven’t seen any information on the failure rate increasing for the examinations but I have also seen the data on job an availability being a factor.
It would be more detail than I want to get into right now but I will just say in passing, that one of the problems that recruiters complain about now is the vast number of high school students who have graduated with diploma and good grades but then cannot pass the Army-for example- entrance exam. It used to be that you were pretty much good to go if you had a diploma because you could not get the diploma without at least being able to fog the mirror- so a recruiter has reasonable expectation that recruiting high school grads- or soon to be grads- was fertile turf. The sad thing too of course, is that it means those students are largely unprepared for the civilian economy as well. Even sadder is that some of those students had the goal of joining the military for years and felt they were on track just by being passed along each year. Society failed them. And the military has also accepted many but does remedial education and lets them attend classes while also training within the military. Which is good in some ways - and it some ways it highly problematic. They are compensating for the schools failures.
Biden is a mess, Tucker says. https://rumble.com/v2lu1ag-2-minutes-ago-tucker-carlson-shared-terrifying-message.html