Yes they would but yet they are too ignorant or just plain dumb to realize a draft would never work in this modern society we have.
"I said say UNCLE not Aunt"!!
Posted on 04/23/2018 6:06:51 PM PDT by pboyington
Two days ago, it was reported that the Army will fall short of its goal to recruit 80,000 new soldiers this year.
According to the Associated Press:
Army officials say the updated goal will be 76,500. Six months into the recruiting year the service has brought in just 28,000 new soldiers.
Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said the main effort is to grow the Army to 483,500, as approved by Congress.
The struggle to meet this year’s higher recruiting numbers — which were a significant hike over last year’s recruiting mission of 69,000 — was expected, mainly due to the favorable American economy and increased competition from private sector employers who are able to pay graduates more money.
Maj. Gen. Jeff Snow, head of the Army’s recruiting command, predicted late last year that the higher enlistment goal would be difficult to meet this year, considering the combination of economic factors and the military’s need for recruits to pass strict physical testing that many young people can’t complete.
“This mission is going to be a significant challenge for the command,” he told The Associated Press in December. Meeting the increased mission this year, Snow said, could force the Army to take in more recruits who require waivers for marijuana use, low test scores or other more basic health issues.
Data on waivers issued this year was not available Friday morning. But, in December Snow said his goal for 2017 was to have fewer than 2 percent of the new recruits be considered “category four,” meaning they scored 31 or less, out of 99, on the aptitude test. Army leaders have also endorsed that 2 percent limit, even though the Defense Department allows up to 4 percent.
Defense officials have also complained that despite the last 16 years of war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the American public is increasingly disconnected from the military, and they say many people have misperceptions about serving and often don’t personally know any service members.
No doubt, Snow has a tough job. He’s trying to create soldiers out of thin air and the only way possible to maintain the numbers is by cooking the books and counting re-enlisting soldiers as new recruits.
Eventually, those troopers who are re-upping will be leaving the service or retiring one day. The Army, like all organizations needs fresh blood.
And, they ain’t getting it.
Does Snow know a perfect storm is brewing with Army Recruiting? I doubt it. He’s in the eye of the PC hurricane which has moved up the Potomac and is centered over the Pentagon deluging it with social engineering hail.
Yes, the economy is getting better because of President Trump’s economic policies. But, the economy was booming in the 1980’s under Reagan and the military was swelling with recruits and with young people who wanted to become officers as well.
Army Recruiting also has to deal with a whole generation of Millennial recruits or wannabee recruits who are essentially made of Jello. Besides the fact that Millennial men are the weakest in American history, many are largely uninterested in joining the military.
In the Millennial world, it’s “Ask not what you can do for your country, it’s what everyone can do for you.”
And, that’s a problem…
Combine the Millennial generation’s patriotic lethargy and sense of entitlement with Baby Boomer and Generation X parents who never served and know nothing about the military.
The era of the American dad telling his son to join the Army because it will make you a man is over.
If that wasn’t a big enough problem for the Army, there’s another reason and perhaps the most worrisome one why it’s not meeting its recruiting goals.
In Middle America, there are still some Millennial men who are red-blooded patriots who, in prior times, would have been considering a military career, even a short-lived one before heading on to college. This last bastion of young men now view the Army as feminized to the point of no return.
Back in the 80’s, joining the military was still seen as a right of passage; something tough and macho to do.
How macho can an Army be that has lactating mothers expressing breast milk in the field?
Joining the Army is now longer seen as a right of passage to manhood. How can it be? Its ranks are filled with waddling women in Maternity Army Combat Uniforms.
Why would any young man want to go to Ranger School now, when Ranger School graduated Major Lisa Jaster, a 37 year old Mommy of two? If Mommies can make it now through what used to be some of the toughest military training in the world; what is the allure of going to Ranger School in 2018? Apparently, Ranger School has now graduated over a dozen women, yet no one from Congress has been given access to any records, including the Green Cards (Ranger School Report Cards) for any of the females. In fact, when Congressman Steve Russell requested the records, he was told they had been destroyed. Instead of the records and Green Cards, Russell was sent some half-assed white paper detailing how women were competing with men at Ranger School.
Yeah…
How about Special Forces? Sadly, that’s on its way to being flushed down the PC commode as well. A couple months ago, several members of the Special Forces Qualification Course cadre, in a scathing 14 page letter, revealed that there are no physical standards to become a Green Beret anymore. The Army dropped the standards to allow women to graduate. Why would any young man want to join the Army to one day serve in Special Forces, when your great-grandma could become a Green Beret?
Across the board, the Army and the rest of the services are shredding standards to accommodate women and in the process, they’re hammering a nail in the coffin of recruiting the type of men who served in the combat arms and special operations.
The Army is committing Hari-Kari. If anyone on active duty knows the real reason the Army isn’t bringing in recruits, no doubt they’re keeping silent.
To utter the truth in the Pentagon in 2018 is tantamount to committing blasphemy.
Women enter a profession and then men exit.
Think about the DC swamp after the men leave.
“The Army dropped the standards to allow women to graduate. Why would any young man want to join the Army to one day serve in Special Forces, when your great-grandma could become a Green Beret?”
how is this bad ?
At some point a real enemy is going to kick us right in our PC teeth.
“I really don’t see Russia as a threat, but China is a huge one, especially given the fact we’re in debt to them for trillions and they are busily buying up strategic properties and ports around the world.”
And the Chinese have to buy their way in. Whereas plenty of countries just invite our troops in. Because nobody, but nobody, trusts China enough to host their troops. We have no designs on anyone’s territory. China is a whole nother story.
The real worry is China’s fairly large military expenditures and the raft of new military equipment that has followed decades of increased spending. Its capabilities are catching up to its ambitions.
I think our younger male generation needs a shot of testosterone...of course, I hear that's in short supply nowadays....
Institute the draft!! It will force these little spoiled socialist minded whiners to grow up and either take responsibility for themselves or flunk out of society all together. Most other western countries have some kind of required two year service to their country right out of high school or after college. The status quo is obviously not cutting it.
It is the demasculiztion of our society. If children participate in sports intending to win we tell them they are brutal animals. People say ragging on losers is mean, yes it is. But it often inspires them and others to do better. That is called motivation. Some times it takes negative motivation. Also I saw where students can’t have outside events because its to dangerous. So all you students hide in your rooms eating and idle. Get fat and stay weak.
Yes they would but yet they are too ignorant or just plain dumb to realize a draft would never work in this modern society we have.
"I said say UNCLE not Aunt"!!
You would not know that China is actually the biggest threat to us by the way that Russia is currently being portrayed.
I recommended to all three of my macho, patriot sons that they avoid the military due to the political correctness and the fact that during their “time” Obama was CIC.
Sad to do it. Would have been proud to have my sons serve.
But it’s not America any more. Until they change their standards where a sane patriot can serve without hiding his values, well, the sane patriots are very disincentivized to join. I mean it doesn’t pay well, it’s hard, and you can get yourself hurt or killed, not to mention see horrors.
Add to this the despicable way the VA has treated veterans for decades. Shameful.
I agree o buckeye there are fine young men in the service. I appreciate them. I was just explaining that fine young men are motivated to serve in a healthy, fair, masculine atmosphere. And we don’t have that right now.
The coercive utopian marxists want to institute ‘National Service’ in which every person over eighteen would be required to serve two to three years either in the military or a ‘civil branch ‘. This is how Oboma’s national police army could be staffed.
The consequences of Leftism.
Destroy Leftism, save the Country.
You would not know that China is actually the biggest threat to us by the way that Russia is currently being portrayed.
In fact, you have the State of California entering into illegal treaties with Communist China, and no one says anything.
I joined the Army, the Infantry, because it was manly and the infantry kicked but and took names. Now, it is simply wussified and PC. How could anyone stand it!?
God bless our troops. They’ve got a tough job made harder by PC police and women in combat arms. Men can’t even be men in the Military any more.
I remember that my Dad had that book! (”This Kind Of War”) I don’t know what happened t it, though. He passed away in 1970, but his book was still on a shelf in the storeroom of our old house.
Retiring at the end ofthe month from After 32 years. Glad to go..
Social Justice shits inside the wire - even in SOCOM!
It’s not my Army anymore.
RLTW
And thanks to these stupid free trade deals, we're paying for it.
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