The US military is having trouble recruiting new members, according to the Pentagon. A much lower percentage of Americans are eligible to serve, and within that population, an even smaller amount is willing to enlist. Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation said, “This is the start of a long drought for military recruiting.” A recent poll by NBC News showed that only 9% of those eligible want to join the military, a major decrease from 29% in recent years.
According to the Army’s website, the minimum requirements to join:
- Age: Between 17-35 years old.
- Medical, Moral, Physical: Medically and physically fit, and in good moral standing.
- Citizenship: A U.S. citizen or permanent resident with a valid Green Card.
- Education: A high school graduate or equivalent.
- Test Score: A minimum score on the Army’s placement exam.
The opiate epidemic has plagued young men and women in America and has become a leading cause of death. Obesity is on the rise, and the price of fresh produce and healthier meals are often unattainable to low-income families. Crime is also on the rise among misguided youth, further diminishing the availability of service members.
People would enlist in the military to honor their country and provide a stable framework for their lives as the military assists with housing, education, and other benefits. A separate study found that only 45% of Americans trust the military, marking a 25-point decline since 2018. Furthermore, 57% of respondents from the NBC News poll believe that they will suffer psychological damage from serving.
The last generation had the hot topic issue of 9/11, terrorism, and protecting their country’s freedom. This generation has been raised in classrooms where they sit for the pledge of allegiance and are taught that their country is inherently bad. They watched the Commander in Chief abandon their mission in Afghanistan and continually disrespect members of the military. Not to mention the military fired servicemembers who declined to take the experimental vaccine. Patriotism is declining rapidly.
The military is desperate for recruits as every branch is struggling to attract new members. The Department of Defense (DoD) is actually hoping the new “Top Gun” movie will encourage people to join the Navy, and they plan to advertise on the Gen Z popular platform TikTok. The DoD may even remove the high school graduation requirement.
The military is currently an all-volunteer service in the US, but that may change. “2022 is the year we question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force,” Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr admitted. Since top government agents are unable to define women, expect everyone to be targeted. Other nations such as Israel implement mandatory military requirements for all eligible young adults. Will America be next?
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Medical, Moral, Physical: Medically and physically fit, and in good moral standing.
Good moral standing…Who is he trying to kid?
They be after some badass girls!
By the way? If recruiters would advertise free abortions, recruiting goals should be easy to meet.
To quote a response to “how did serving affect you”:
My wife banged 10 men and now I’m afraid of fireworks.
That’s hilarious. My first 4th FW show after getting shot up in an anti aircraft ambush while a black hawk pilot freaked me out. Took me right back. Everybody was asking “hey, are you ok?”
Fine now, but never saw it coming that first time.
Damn it was strange.
I witnessed a guy have a combat flashback episode from the Korean War a good thirty years after the war. He was one of the best men I have ever known and gave an insight to the lasting psychic damage a human wave attack had on guys of my Dad’s generation.
Lost wisdom says, you can’t get blood from a turnip.
Democrats have been raising the question of reinstating the draft for at least a generation. Of course, they tell us the republicans want to do it, but I have yet to hear a republican politician say he/she supports the draft.
I grew up wanting to serve and had decided to participate in AFROTC in college. In high school, some of my older friends and former teammates returned from Viet Nam with stories about ROE that were used to prevent them from taking on the enemy. It started dawning on me that we were not in Viet Nam to win, but to continuously fight “the enemy” where ever they may be. I gave up my dreams of serving and concentrated on playing the “selective service game”. I drew a high lottery number and knew I was home free. By the time I graduated, the war was ended and the end of the draft was near.
I see a similar situation happening with the current generation. We fought the “War on Terror” for 20 years and our young people saw their friends come home in bags or in pieces. They saw reservists who were continually called up to spend a little time in the sand box and realized the Guard and Reserves were spending as much time in the Middle East as the regular GI’s Now, we have a pentagram that is more interested in fighting climate change and White privilege than they are any enemies of the country.
Sounds like many young people don’t want to touch the shitshow known as our military with a 10 foot pole. They don’t want to fight banker’s wars!
And they do not want to share a fox hole with someone who has corn hole on his mind.
Most the young people have heard of 4chan.
The f*ckers and assholes who mired us in the Vietnam quagmire should be tried for Crimes Against Humanity … as in over 50,000 dead AMERICAN KIDS … That number is MIND NUMBING!!
They’re risking a lot more lives now by pushing NATO to Russia’s border and talking about putting nukes in Finland. Also, Pompeo wants to recognize the independence of Taiwan. If China sinks a few aircraft carriers with swarms of hypersonic missiles, that could get hot quickly.
Didn’t Senator Blackburn (Whateva) vote to subject females to the draft?
I think Obama’s girls should go.
Probably. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha wants a senate leadership role and will do the bidding of her paymasters.
See my AFROTC story below…
Not ever gonna happen. Would tear this country to pieces.
We wouldn’t want THAT now, would we…
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How could you even tell? What would be different than now?
In my opinion they will drop the citizen/green card requirement before they start a draft. Foreigners with no loyalty to our country or it’s heritage citizens are exactly the kind of troops our govt. needs to impose their plans on us.
I thought the same thing. The Romans also tried that in the latter years of the empire. Didn’t turn out so good for them.
Yea, mercenaries tend to be unreliable when things get bad.
Ran into those in Iraq. Africans, Mexicans, Central Americans, some who couldn’t even speak english. All doing it for a green card.
If it wasn’t for the Woke/Transgender/Stool-Push/Communist/Climate-Change/Racist-Anti-White Agenda, I’d say it would actually be a PARAMOUNT Idea.
Giving a bunch of Fat, Lazy, Coddled Man-Children a real dose of “Reality”, combined with an understanding of Actions and Consequences and the instillation of “Work Ethic”, would potentially assist in pushing back the tide of dissolution overtaking Western Civilization.
Alas, the Military no longer has those men like R. Lee Ermey’s character in Full Metal Jacket. And if they did, they’d be Drummed Out as soon as Tools like Milley and his ilk were made aware of their existence…..
Tell (((them))) to have (((their kids))) enlist to fight the war which (((they))) are provoking against Russia, whose population is overwhelmingly proud and eager to serve.
Just kidding!
Yep.
Well said … the most inconvenient truth in these United States of the past 75 years …
David Brooks, professional GOP dickless wonder, once said on PBS News Hour that his son was serving in the army. A minute later he explained that he meant the IDF. As though Israel and the US were the same country.
I will gladly provide refuge/support to young folks who do not want to serve in the woke military and die fighting say Russia,simple as.
I’m with ya, brother.
The civilian job market is also very strong but give poop pants and knee pads a couple more years to wreck that as well and there will be more willing fodder.
I read an article on the enlistment shortage last week. That stated signing bonus was $40k and they are pushing for $50k.. Armstrong did not mention the vaccination requirement which is huge among conservatives and the would be cannon fodder they would like to sucker into the woke/LBGTQ armed forces.
Excellent point.
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Free Assange. It is TIME.
Communists in Russia were jews, communists in US are jews, kill all jews before they kill us all.
Oh look, jew downvoted. Funny, the only ethnic group that was kicked out from 40+ nations in the last 2000 years, wonder why. Kill ALL jews this time, save humanity from them.
Why did many thousands and in cities across America protest the Vietnam War? Conscription. Just a guess but, if it was an all-volunteer Army I kind of doubt there would have been protests.
Will today’s youth protest if the draft is reinstated? Again, a guess … I doubt it. I have very little faith in today’s youth. They are not like we Boomers were. Today’s utes are mostly pussies.
I have faith in them. I guess due to my own experience, and not what I see in media. They understand reality better than any generation I know, but they are also quite pragmatic about power levels.
Just don’t get the shot.
So … just who’s likely to enlist in today’s military?
Not folks with MBAs — or any real education north of high school … which leaves you with a pool of folks that are basically illiterate and at least borderline criminal …
When I was in the USMC (’66-’68) we had a lot of folks from the ‘hood who’d been given a choice by a criminal court judge — either ‘x’ number of years in the State penitentiary — or 4 years in the Marine Corps.
I served with a lot of those guys … and their contribution — other to the national cemeteries — seemed pretty minimal … lots of drugs, lots of gambling, lots of crime …
There were some good posts on McClellen’s Folly (I think it was) recently here on TBP.
Just musing. All those ships and no one to operate them. Will robots and ai be “their” salvation?
They should trust me when I tell them they do not want to recall me.
Make Fragging Great Again (MFGA)
Go figure, kids don’t want to go straight from basic grunt training fun to the eastern fronts in Latvia, Kyev, or Borat-grad for that NATO Grande Armée winter invasion of Moscow.
Where’s their Lockheed-Pfizer patriotism? Don’t they want to help O’Biden’s polling numbers by making the ultimate sacrifice? Ingrates. So much for student loan cancellations.
Maybe the big bonus should be FREE FOOD (well, Nacho flavored MRE/LRPs) while the rest of us civs/vets eat our pets.
The flag represents the government. I’m sitting on my hands now as I have no desire to pledge my allegiance to that scum.
They just would not report for duty and what is anybody gonna do about it?
https:/removethisspace/www.bitchute.com/video/YB0oqJYL7t78/
Substitute Ukraine for Afghanistan in his comments and realize they plan to send your sons and daughters to be killed in endless, unsuccessful war for more money for them.
Admin? Would you consider posting this video of Assange with my comment?
Endless Unsuccessful War
https:/(removethisspace)/www.bitchute.com/video/YB0oqJYL7t78/
I’m gonna go do a tad bit of research before I open my big mouth, but I would like to elaborate a bit on this complete collapse of trust in the US military. Could it be that the Military Industrial Complex has exposed their dirty laundry and the thongs have come home to roost?
I think the most highly decorated drag queen in American history (Levine or Milley, take your choice) has a few dirty little secrets.
I wonder what the US military needs light tanks for… urban warfare expected?
Does anyone think Biden would NOT send the US Army to get your guns?
Folks, this is what happens when the Handlers realize the Senile Old Fool has a stubborn streak and doesn’t realize his is a Senile Old Fool.
This nonsense about Ukraine is to cover what is happening here. If the eyes of the news media here were not glued upon Ukraine more people would realize that population reduction is the goal, with infertility the method of choice.
It isn’t gender they are after; it is the reproductive systems of children. Once chemical castration in the womb is a thing (I just invented it or did I?), allowing indoctrinated birthing persons to eliminate their own or a doctor’s prejudice regarding gender, a generation of mutilated eunuchs will be born to compete with the Thalidomide kids and the Covid19 victims.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15536544
I meant to include this link to the article.
The strong young men with good moral character should be encouraged to join their local militias. A mighty struggle is coming.