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A Perfect Storm is Brewing in Army Recruiting – Does It Know Why?
US Defense Watch ^ | April 23, 2018 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 04/23/2018 6:06:51 PM PDT by pboyington

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To: pboyington
Surely they can find 60,000 LGBT red-blooded American snowflakes who want to join the army in time for gun confiscation duty...
21 posted on 04/23/2018 7:31:02 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: DesertRhino

Women enter a profession and then men exit.

Think about the DC swamp after the men leave.


22 posted on 04/23/2018 7:37:54 PM PDT by donna (John McCain dispatched a trusted aide across the Atlantic to get dirty dossier from ex-spy.)
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To: pboyington

“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?”


And get his ass blown off, because granny can’t actually do the things soldiers need to do when they’re dropped off in the middle of nowhere with very little heavy weapon support.


23 posted on 04/23/2018 7:40:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: pboyington

how is this bad ?


24 posted on 04/23/2018 7:41:23 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: pboyington

At some point a real enemy is going to kick us right in our PC teeth.


25 posted on 04/23/2018 7:42:47 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: kaehurowing

“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.”


Those are actually weaknesses. We lent huge sums to Latin America. They stopped paying. Did their world end? Nope.

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.


26 posted on 04/23/2018 7:49:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: pboyington
...gist of the article...its all the vimens fault, dang it, that our young men are such wimps and won't join up....nothing to do with playing video games, or smoking dope, or having porn as their girlfriend,not knowing how to work let alone work hard...

I think our younger male generation needs a shot of testosterone...of course, I hear that's in short supply nowadays....

27 posted on 04/23/2018 8:03:20 PM PDT by cherry
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To: pboyington

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.


28 posted on 04/23/2018 8:11:27 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: pboyington

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.


29 posted on 04/23/2018 8:12:08 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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To: dfwgator
The Left ultimately wants to bring back the Draft.

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"!!

30 posted on 04/23/2018 9:21:31 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: kaehurowing

You would not know that China is actually the biggest threat to us by the way that Russia is currently being portrayed.


31 posted on 04/23/2018 9:25:34 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: pboyington

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.


32 posted on 04/23/2018 9:37:47 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: originalbuckeye

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.


33 posted on 04/23/2018 9:38:59 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: dfwgator; All

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.


34 posted on 04/23/2018 10:13:05 PM PDT by robowombat (y)
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The consequences of Leftism.

Destroy Leftism, save the Country.


35 posted on 04/23/2018 10:34:21 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BBell

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.


36 posted on 04/23/2018 10:57:19 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: pboyington

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.


37 posted on 04/23/2018 11:20:06 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: robowombat

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.


38 posted on 04/23/2018 11:23:15 PM PDT by dsutah
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To: kaehurowing

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


39 posted on 04/24/2018 3:21:56 AM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: Zhang Fei
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.

And thanks to these stupid free trade deals, we're paying for it.

40 posted on 04/24/2018 3:38:23 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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