Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
Two words, General Maria.
Did anyone else immediately do a search for images of the illustrious General just to confirm your suspicions?
Imagine being one of the first open lesbians in the US military to break through the old boy’s network and achieve the rank of general and be appointed to such an important post only to decide you’d rather eat donuts and allow the standards for new recruits to plummet.
The destruction of the US military is deliberate. The choice to put fat perverts in positions of power is not an accident and it is meant to crush morale.
And they try to blame it all on homeschooling.
Amazing.
US Army’s Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge
The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can’t find enough young people who meet the basic requirements to enlist, according to Army Times.
Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, second in command for Army Training and Doctrine Command, sounded off Thursday about the troubling developments. She highlighted disqualification rates for potential recruits jumped from 30-40% (pre-Covid) to a whopping 70% this year due to obesity, low test scores, and/or drug use.
Gervais pointed out the service has experienced a “nosedive” in recruits since July 2021. She explained Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores were 10% lower during the virus pandemic in 2020-21. That figure has since increased to 13% for the most recent high school graduating class.
Perhaps America’s youth was dumbed down during Covid with at-home schooling via daily video conferences. The latest Education Department data confirm reading and math scores plummeted. Maybe those kids were playing too many video games or trading ‘meme stocks’ or posting useless videos on TikTok during the pandemic instead of opening a book and learning something valuable.
Besides failing to meet academic standards, obesity was another driver of higher disqualification rates. Also, increasing drug use among youngsters didn’t help.
The challenges of today’s youth put combat preparedness in question as liberal war hawks are determined to spark World War III in Ukraine and or in the Taiwan Strait.
Gen. Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff for the Army, warned in July that the recruitment goal for 2022 could be slashed by a quarter. He said the total size of the Army (including active and reserve components) will decrease by 10,000 troops this year and between 14,000 and 21,000 in 2023.
Perhaps lowering the standards to meet targets is a question the service should ponder. Even though the quality is more important than quantity, in tumultuous periods like today, where the world is shifting from a unipolar world to a multipolar world, conflicts tend to ignite — and the US — one who has overseen the unipolar world for decades — will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to maintain the status quo.
At least the youth have one thing going for them: obsession with violent video games has desensitized an entire generation to all sorts of violence where war might not be a big shock.
Remember, the service’s recruitment crisis has been an ongoing issue but has worsened in the last few years. We pointed out it’s “another signal of declining support for the federal government and its institutions.”
Maybe because the military has gotten too ‘woke‘? You know the saying: “go woke, go broke” — this can also happen to empires…
The shrinking pool of eligible youth due to obesity, low test scores, or drug use should be a national security threat to US health and security.
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This is what you get when the upper echelon is run by feminists, ferries and freaks.
Garbage in garbage out.
All Satan’s controlled demolition.
Man isn’t that intelligent.
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Homeschoolers? What evidence do they have that homeschooled kids are ignorant? None because they consistantly score higher in every area then public school kids. But if they say it’s true the idiots who still believe the government and media will believe it.
Whats weird is that I’ve not seen an obese homeschooled kid. Seriously, I cannot remember ever seeing a fat home schooler, unlike the illiterate kids in school today.
This is very true. The game developers have truly blurred the lines between fantasy and reality. The realism is freakish and its goal is to desensitize completely, just look at the videos some of these mass shooters have done. They are exactly like you’d find in the games, seriously. Call of Duty has these very senario’s in their games.
We have a VR and when using this type of ‘entertainment’ all thats missing is the haptic feedback. Like all things tech, its fun at first but when the evil asswipes start developing the truly nefarious aspects it becomes foolish to continue using it. It draws you in and like an opiate you need more, with more realism.
We’ve shelved this crap and won’t let the grands near it. If anything we’ll be teaching them how to be situationally aware when they are out on their own. Sad that its come to this…
I think the writer was referring to children who were kept from the classroom during the so called pandemic. The schools went to a video model at home so to speak. That was a disaster but did show parents the extent of leftist lies are being taught to open and trusting minds.
That model is different from true home schooling which, as you expertly point out, is truly educating the child- and it shows in test scores and social adaptability.
This is whats making the comments and setting (lowering) standards so that the military conforms with the wokes no bar standards… desperately wanting to look like a man…
https://i.postimg.cc/FssWmdbB/th.webp
The way I read it was the “remote learning” that kids were doing during the scamdemic being the primary reason the kids have fallen behind.
Public school education even before 2020 was a disaster. Closing the schools just accelerated things.
You misread, Mary Christine … the article uses the phrase, ” … at-home schooling via daily video conferences … “, which was all of the Zoom ‘schooling’ AT HOME …
So I was told but that doesn’t change what I said at 12:19 pm.
Just read that — agree fully … we need to abolish all public schools and provide vouchers so that parents can choose their schools … and to also make sure that home schooling is permitted in all 50 States …
No to vouchers. No to taxes for schools.
If people breed, they should be the ones to pay for their crotch spawn.
Or I get the vouchers too and can redeem them for a refund, not having kids.
“We” don’t need to provide jack shit.
Have kids, provide for your own kids … period.
Sorry, didn’t realize this was duplicative of the comment of the other anon (above). Still, I’ll leave it here to reinforce that other anonymous’ comment.
A hundred years of being conditioned to accept authority has consequences.
Half of all recruits are from the South. In view of the Establishments assaults on our culture, history, and heroes, no Southerner should even think about joining the military, allowing their children to enlist, or staying in if you are already there. I served, so did my father. No more. This government does not represent me or the American people, Southerners in particular. Go ahead and fight your useless wars with spoiled rich brats from the Northeast. Maybe Milley should try to recruit some Antifa types from Portland, Oregon? Or visit the rich recruiting grounds of Chicago’s Southside? Hell, at least they know how to shoot, after a fashion. A highly disproportionate number of the men who fought and died in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam were Southerners (and I am not including black Southerners, by the way). No more of that, folks.
To hell with the entire Federal government and the so-called “Blue States”. I read about black crime up North all the time. Leaves me cold. Who voted in the liberals who allowed this to happen? White mudsharks killed by their bucks? Who cares? Not me.
Time to fort up, as they said in the old days.
Would give 100 up votes if I could. The amount of disrespect and bs that hails out of the acela corridor today and probably since this country began has come out on full force. Only an ignorant fool would sign up and fight to expand the reach of wall street and k street evil. Not worth it when they shot on your heritage and their highest current value is non-reproductive fucking.
I said in My War, after Nam there is no excuse for anyone ever joining our military. None as in zero, zilch…
” In view of the Establishments assaults on our culture, history, and heroes…”
I have been thinking of how fitting it would be if “their” purposeful destruction of america blew up in “their” faces.
I was talking with some old Southern boys today and I said all wars are banker’s wars, and they said “That’s right!”.
Nice, Ghost. Gonna honky tonk with some rednecks tonight with Alan Jackson…before he hangs his hat for good. Pretty sure I won’t see any violence tonight.
AA,
In 89 Alan Jackson made a personal appearance in a big Box retail store in Atlanta…I was the duel district Area Assets Protection Manager over 14 stores in the Big Peach at that time, and in charge of the flow of the countless thousands (mostly women) who swamped the store to meet him personally during this highly anticipated heart throb’s personal appearance.
The company gave me strict control over the event and I laid my detailed plan out with his management team to get him in and out…and keep him from being swamped while he was in the store.
I made arrangements to sneak him in through receiving in a vehicle that would not attract attention (as early as they would agree to) and out through a side door in pin point exact hour/minute timings (super-fast).
I had 25 ‘Security’ personnel waiting and a detailed plan to funnel the massive crowd in & out & past the elevated throne we had him on…with physical barriers (and 10 bodyguards around him) with instructions on how to hustle the flow (and keep the river of woman moving) through the store for the 60 minutes he was there.
Everything went like clockwork…then at the last minute as we were getting ready to escort Jackson to the side door (I had a path made behind the throne so the crown wouldn’t realize he was leaving) one of his assistants handed him a phone saying it was a call from a disabled woman who somehow how gotten the phone number…and was desperate to talk to him.
I heard all of the conversation from what Jackson said to her…not a word what she said. The woman was evidently distressed.
After a few minutes his manager stepped up and stressed they had to leave for the next event.
Jackson waved him off.
A couple of minutes later the manager stepped up again pleading with Jackson that they had to go…Jackson cupped the phone and sternly told him…and I quote: “Give me some time with this woman…she has some problems!”
The manger backed off with a shrug.
Jackson then spent three or four minutes talking softly to the caller…his words were golden and silver apples.
We hustled him to the side door…told the waiting ‘non-descript car to pull up…and Alan Jackson vanished…without the mob realizing he had LEFT THE BUILDING!
What a gentleman and a compassionate nice guy he was that evening with everyone. Extremely likeable man.
AS farmer would say Physiometry. Hes has sweet nice guy written all over his face.
Flea,
I did the same thing for Shari Lewis in 91…she stayed for an entire afternoon and the crowds for her were endless and devoted.
What a sweet woman she was with all the middle aged fans…me included!
(AA I think these three were before your time).
Great story, mark. He appears to be a really nice guy. He has some great physiognomy going on.
Hopefully none of the MAGA parents let their son’s and daughters go into Old Joe’s WOKE military, he keeps telling them how much he despises them. Don’t help Old Joe out.
Having a smaller, less capable military may deter the Chairborne Commando Generals/Admirals that we need to pull back on our aggression. Sorry, I had to say it and it gave me a chuckle too.
Good. Only mother Russia should have an army
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
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Canine distEmpire. It’s what’s for supper that the foundering Papillons ~ & their loaded-diapers papooses ~ bequeathed ya.
Means “butterfly.” Cuz the physiognomy. Not cuz it Ali-floats.
But it does invariably sting itself to death, rather than just saying “no,” as The Greatest did.
Envy the country that has heroes, huh? I say pity the country that needs them.” ~ “Denton Van Zan,” Reign of Fire
Because pitiable people invent countries & heroes simulcast side-by-side. Then, if can, comes the metastasis into empire. Then, always, the distEmpire.
Anything other than to fire-breath hell with the whole thing would indeed constitute “lowering standards” ~ if that were in most low country constitutions (which it ain’t).
Yet another woke diversity promotion based on nothing to do with merit. She is a lard ass and a dumb ass. How surprising!
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/09/05/general-in-woke-us-army-posts-thank-you-pic-to-troops-leaving-afghanistan-but-theyre-british-not-americans-1129774/
It was congress that destroyed the officer corps, not the presidents, though all of them helped.
Geez o’ Wheeze, Louise. Please!
No Need. To reinvent the Wheel.
EZPZ. JUST LOWER THE STANDARDS!
That’s the Way it has Always been done across the board in the recent past.
LOL, you can’t be serious with this comment.
Look at all the Rambo Redditors that went to Ukraine thinking war is like a video game. See how that turned out.
There are no longer military threats from any nation. Their puppet leaders are all in cahoots, it’s good for “business”. Militaty budgets are absurd and our military carries alot of dead weight and is strife with waste fraud and abuse . It’s all about defense stocks and weapons/logistic manufacturing. Jets ships etc. Huge waste of money. Ex army nobody here.
the cunt isn’t complaining – she is bragging.
Queers and niggers are going to get a lot of people killed. Don’t let your kid enlist.