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Are Enlistments Plummeting Because the Military Is Now a Woke Joke?
New American ^ | August 5, 2022 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 08/05/2022 5:56:23 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

America has come to a point in our history when we can no longer field a sufficiently sized military is the tragic consequence of poor leadership and WOKE policies of President Joe Biden, Pentagon incompetence, elitists who rule the Democrat Party, Marxist college professors and leftist ideologues who control our public schools,

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To: lee martell

You mean we can’t depend on the vaunted rainbow warriors to preserve our freedoms?????

Uh oh.


21 posted on 08/05/2022 6:28:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Bon of Babble

The females will have to shower with intact males who suddenly decided they identify as women.

NO mentally ill person should be handed any military issued weapons.


22 posted on 08/05/2022 6:28:42 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: FarCenter

The modern version of Washington’s Farewell Address:

Xenophobia will destroy ya!


23 posted on 08/05/2022 6:29:20 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: FLT-bird
Recruiter: “You’re excused from military service.”

More likely they'll send you to a stockade.

24 posted on 08/05/2022 6:30:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
NO mentally ill person should be handed any military issued weapons.

Agree, but it is happening, and has since 2017:

(From the same article):

The U.S. military is apparently putting guns in mentally ill people’s hands, as it’s now recruiting individuals “with a history of ‘self-mutilation,’ bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse,” as USA Today wrote back in 2017.

25 posted on 08/05/2022 6:35:46 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Bon of Babble

Ah, that’s nice.

See: Fort Hood.


26 posted on 08/05/2022 6:37:36 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Bon of Babble
It's not just the wokeness. The illegal mandates to take the Jim Jones Jab is going to have repercussions for a generation, if not longer.

For those who were looking at a tour or two, why risk your health for the rest of your life taking a failed experimental injection?

For those who were thinking of a career, who would start down such a narrow career path only to have someone tell you ten years into it that you have to take failed experimental injections or throw away everything you worked for?

The military is the same institution that purports to train leaders and then is confused when military members show leadership and walk away.

27 posted on 08/05/2022 6:41:01 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Is this a trick question?…


28 posted on 08/05/2022 7:00:50 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Bon of Babble
Calling it a "joke" trivializes a serious situation.

Enlistments are plummeting because the sort of men who historically would join are aware the US military is not on their side.

Prison style male rape is now part of US military culture. This is now widely known.

Fight for freedom? For your country? So called critical race theory is part of officer training. They know they might be called upon to massacre their own people.

29 posted on 08/05/2022 7:15:32 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: FLT-bird

My son’s reserve Army platoon: all warrant officers left by one means or another, no fitness test for more than 2 years (estimate 90% can’t pass), but damn it they all know what pronoun to use thanks to extensive training!

Religious exemptions filed for shots causing quite a mess for readiness training this summer...as those that haven’t taken the shots are not deployable and deprived of training/promotion causing quite a lot of scrambling and of course intimidation.


31 posted on 08/05/2022 7:53:53 AM PDT by Geoffrey
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To: FLT-bird

Straight White Males have been the backbone of the military for two and a half centuries.


But you wouldn’t know it from history books in current use. I taught jr. high history for over 25 years.

Pick up a high school history book and go to WWII. Look at the pictures and and you’ll think that the majority of fighting men were black. Yes, of course, thousands of black did serve but the dozen or so pictures devoted to WWII will feature black soldiers or the Tuskegee Airmen, Japanese internees, Rosie the Riviter, German death camps and the Atomic Bomb. Since most kids don’t actually read the text but just look at the pictures, that’s what they remember.

And the books will include how a woman here or there during the Revolution and Civil War dressed like a man/boy and served.


32 posted on 08/05/2022 8:35:46 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Bon of Babble

“Give your life for your country, you racist pig!” Gee, where do I sign up?


33 posted on 08/05/2022 8:41:16 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: dfwgator

Will there be anti-Draft riots and Marches this time? Maybe. But all you need do it refuse the shots and they tos you out or worse yet—Wear a MAGA Hat.


34 posted on 08/05/2022 8:46:47 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I’m sure they will resurrect the Wilsonian “Slacker Raids” as during WWI.


35 posted on 08/05/2022 8:47:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AndyJackson
Navy here so I am safe from these jibes.

Navy spells out new transgender policies

Navy

I don't even want to know what goes on during a modern Shellback ceremony.

36 posted on 08/05/2022 8:47:36 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: MikelTackNailer
"I don't even want to know what goes on during a modern Shellback ceremony."

I doubt they even have those nowadays. If so, it certainly wouldn't include being paddled on the butt as the Squid blows water out of a tie down. The Shellbacks are probably only allowed to give dirty looks at the Squids, while the OOD runs into another slow lumbering freighter.

It's not my Navy (75-87).

37 posted on 08/05/2022 10:43:41 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: napscoordinator
Hidden in the mix is that teens physically and morally qualified to serve is a diminishing resource.

Legalization of pot is causing the military to relax "moral standards" for example by allowing waivers for drug users.

Also the physical fitness of today's youth is abysmal. When is that last time you remember a PE class in schools?

Lastly the core of the military has been the southern states. They are constantly being ridiculed and s#!t on by liberals as backward hicks because they have Christian values instead of the hipster new age woke crap.

38 posted on 08/05/2022 11:15:11 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: FarCenter

So you are happy with this development.


39 posted on 08/05/2022 12:34:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: ansel12

I’m not sympathetic with the imperialist, globalist ambitions of the neoCons and The Project for a New American Century. If their ambitions are thwarted by a lack of cannon fodder, so be it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

and its successor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy_Initiative


40 posted on 08/05/2022 3:30:32 PM PDT by FarCenter
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