Posted on 01/27/2024 8:43:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
McNamara’s morons.
Why would a white, heterosexual male sign up to fight for a country that despises them?
Even though I am WAY past age & health requirements, maybe I could re-up & get in the Navy. All it takes(apparently) is a lowering of standards & they’ve done that already. I can still lift(maybe 30 lbs.), can’t run, but can walk slow for short distances. I could use the money. Of course this would be ludicrous to even consider, but the Navy must decide whether it is worse to not meet recruiting goals, or to have a helpless group of recruits. First they need physically fit people & then instill in them the proper qualities of serving without going to some goofy set of “woke” rules. No trans people accepted would be a start.
Do you suppose that since we no longer see any positive, patriotic advertisements and news about our military, and much negative publicity plus all the Wounded Warrior stories and the like, plays a big role in poor recruitment??
Why would a white, heterosexual male sign up to fight for a country that despises them?
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Bingo!
Right now the military has made it known that your career path is going to be handicapped unless you're a member of a few preferred minority groups or female. The people that the military has relied upon throughout our history to function are being told that their opportunities will be purposefully limited in favor of others who are less qualified and who do not work as hard as themselves. It isn't illogical for an industrious young person today to choose not to go into work where they know their efforts will not be rewarded, choosing other work with more potential for them.
People don't have to take a job unless they don't have better opportunities. The military has made it clear that they don't want people from what has always been their best performing demographic. The Navy will just have to suck it up and make do with the lower quality recruits they have access to now. They made their bed, lie in it.
To have a job that provides three meals a day, a place to sleep and a salary
Diplomas Aweigh!
I was a navy recruiter in the late 80’s. Asvab scores range from 0 to 99. Anyone scoring 50 would be a pretty good candidate. Over 75 was super! Each person was categorized into categories. A “cat 4” was the lowest we could enlist and their scores were something like 28 to 40. We were limited on how many cat 4 we could enlist and they did not count as a full quota fill. I would enlist people scoring 50 or above all day every day even without a diploma or GED. Scoring 50 or above on the asvab is not like getting a 50 on some high school test. A 50 is the mean score meaning half score above that and half below that...so a 50 is average. The article is misleading in that regard. If they meet moral, medical and pass the reading test I see nothing wrong with enlisting these people.
Press gangs?
Thank you.
I dropped out in ‘87 to work full time. Got my GED a couple years later. Went to boot camp in Dan Diego in ‘93 and served until ‘97 on the USS PELELIU.
SAN Diego.
Making coffee now...
SHEESH!!
When you’re about to go to WWIII you enlist anybody who can fog a mirror.
Makes sense at for our useless public highschools in Democrat voting states. It’s a phony credential.
Also a Navy Recruiter - 89/90 and you’re so right. In fact, It might IMO be a better sailor overall than a 31 RWL (If they didn’t use this term in your district it’s “Rock with Lips”) Over 50 is considered upper mental group. Seems like nothing has changed.
AT 58 I’m pretty darn sure I could pass all the entry requirements except age and get through boot camp, physically, just fine. What I couldn’t put up with is what they’ve done to my Navy.
C’mon man... I joined in 1988. I was seventeen and a high school dropout. No diploma and no GED. I had an AQFT of 69, which qualified me for service and just about any job I wanted with exception of the nuclear ratings. I retired twenty years later with a Masters of Business Management. Off topic, during that same time period I knew several kids in Colorado who purposely dropped out of high school and got their GEDs so they could go to college a year early! That loophole was closed in Colorado in the mid-nineties.
If you can click your heels together, or you just wear heels, you’re in.
You shouldn’t out shine or out smart the Commander in Chief.
The US Navy website still says that a high school diploma or GED are required in order to join. The exception is that if someone is still in high school, they can complete the paperwork before they get their diploma.
https://static.navy.com/joining/requirements/
https://www.navy.com/sites/default/files/2021-10/united-states-navy-how-you-can-join-brochure.pdf
So, if there has been any change in requirements to join the Navy, it does not reflect on their website. So far, only blogs have said that the high school graduation requirement has been dropped.
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