It’s a serious problem. I can totally understand why any youts with common sense would view the current armed services with much suspicion.
And now a draft allows them to flood the military with folks who will have no problem putting down the patriots.
Forcing Americans in the 18-26 year-old range to team up with the freaks and perverts now serving would be tantamount to kidnapping and sex trafficking. Naturally that makes perfect sense in an administration hell bent on using the world’s children for playthings through open borders.
𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯.
When your elected officials label you as extremists, or potential domestic terrorists, I can’t see the appeal in joining the military. They do seem to like to talk about ‘muh vetrins when it comes reelection time, or when there is need to cudgel spineless republicans for not voting for pork filled NDAA’s (our most recent NDAA not included, I’d like to thank several Republican Senators for voting for it).
I did my time, did my individual ready reserve. Won’t go back.
This is based on two gung-ho former Marines who spent several tours in Afghanistan. Condensing it down, promotions are based on “diversity.” They were the wrong race. The people being promoted were not competent for the positions they were promoted into. As one said, “I don’t mind fighting, but I don’t want to die because the guy giving the commands is an absolute idiot.”
My personal problem with promoting the least good candidate is that eventually they end up running the entire show. Also, along the way you lose the better candidates who see that it’s not the place they want to work as there’s no future for them. This happened any number of times in my civilian working career. It was usually someone related to the boss who got the promotion. That results in hollowing out the department as anyone with something on the ball decamps. You’re left with the people who are not motivated and have no better prospects. Also, incompetent people do not promote competent people. (Corollary, alcoholics promote alcoholics. Drug users promote drug users and sexual deviants promote sexual deviants. At some point an organization thus afflicted must fail.)