Posted on 12/17/2023 11:53:01 AM PST by RandFan
The US Army is facing a TikTok mutiny as Gen Z recruits are taking to social media to whine about low pay, 'sh***y' food and fitness tests.
The brazen posts - by uniformed troops on US bases - represent an audacious challenge to top brass amid a recruitment crisis. The Army fell short of its target by 25 percent last year.
One of the posts by military influencer Anthony Laster slams Army life for having 'No Privacy, The Pay Sucks, Sh***y Food, Disrespectful Leadership, NO SLEEP!' and has been viewed more than 600,000 times.
Laster, from Chicago, has more than a million followers on TikTok and made the public comments in uniform while on mission in the desert. In another post he claimed he spent his whole day watching TikToks while supposedly fighting the Taliban.
It gives a woeful impression of America's fighting forces to potential recruits, which is likely to cause further animosity toward TikTok from critics
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The FFL is extremely clear on the process for new recruits and how they operate internally. It's French, and either accept that or be bounced. Whereas in the U.S. it's about how we try to inclusive.
The same liberal, marxist, socialist, human garbage that has taken over Portland and elsewhere has taken over the Army starting with Austin, Milley, Blinken and Biden.
LOL
I did send for an application at one time but balked at the minimum 5-year enlistment.
Whining about fitness tests? I assume the chubettes would fail. I’m astounded they will wear a uniform, and not demand to wear yoga pants and progressive t-shirts.
HEY!
In case there’s anyone here not familiar with that picture, the guy in the middle is Sgt. Maj. Bradley Kasal.
At the time the picture was taken, what he had in him was a half-dozen bullets and several dozen grenade fragments.
What he DIDN’T have in him at the time was half his blood.
Absolutely. I joined in 87. I’ve learned certain skills and traveled to places I would have never had the opportunity to see if I hadn’t joined the Army. I wouldn’t trade my experience for nothing in the world. These kids today are weak, whiners, and lazy. After 1990, things started going down hill with”stress cards.” God help our military.
Too bad some of these people weren’t in when I was. Yes, the pay may not be “best in the industry”, but it sure beats the approximate $100/mo. I got back when I was in. Pay all depends on your rank & some never get promoted.
Too bad some of these people weren’t in when I was. Yes, the pay may not be “best in the industry”, but it sure beats the approximate $100/mo. I got back when I was in. Pay all depends on your rank & some never get promoted. The food rather depends on the particular base where you served. I saw it vary from excellent down to pretty rotten. I have never seen an honest comparison between pay grades for the lower enlisted ranks back in the late 50s compared to now. Now it is a lot better, but there is inflation involved.
Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have been bitching about those topics for forever. Comic strips, movies, songs, poems, and now socials. Nothing new here other than the media they use to air their gripes. We had a kid who refused to stop bitching after he got to the ship. This was in 1992. Bitch, bitch, bitch, is all he did. One night the Master at Arms showed up in the berthing and roused that kid up out of his rack, made him pack everything up and they left. I heard later he was driven to the bus station and given a ticket to his home of record. He was booted for “Failure to Adapt to Military Service” which was a thing for folks in service less than 90 days. Might have been 180 days. Not sure if it is still a thing or not.
I’m way past military service age by now, but even if I weren’t I wouldn’t join up these days. No leadership at the top by what I’m seeing, & the lower ranks seem to be a bunch of misfits as well. Looks like a pretty sure setup to lose a war.
Those are sailors on the USS Oregon.
It always has. So what else is new? It is not your mom’s or granny’s cooking after all. HS food was horrid too. We were a closed campus. Even the burgers were nasty. And that was 1962-66. I brown-bagged my lunch and bought a 5-cent half pint of 2% milk, and I don’t like milk to this day.
Hub had 20 years of Navy Chow. The shipboard was worse. No dairy for coffee in the Chief’s quarters. Powdered Creamers hadn’t been invented yet.
See post 23.
Illustrates one of the advantages of an all-volunteer force: You can tell a whiny birdbrain like that "STFU. You're here because you chose to be here." He didn't STFU, so he got the boot. Can't do that with draftees.
For reference (to those watching who might not know), the USS Oregon aboard which those sailors served was a pre-dreadnought battleship. She was commissioned in 1896 and decommissioned in 1919.
Jim Robinson—”No f-bombs. No c-words, no sh-words, etc. Not even masked.”
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