Lack of Awareness Largest Barrier to Military Recruiting, Officials Tell House Panel

U.S. Naval Institute ^ | December 14, 2023 | John Grady

[Retain Mike]

The No. 1 challenge facing U.S. military recruiting is the American public’s lack of familiarity with its armed services, the Pentagon’s and services’ civilian personnel leaders testified Wednesday

. At the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee hearing, Franklin Parker, assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs, said “under 13 percent [of eligible recruits] have a parent that served” in one of the armed services.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), panel chairman, added four out of five recruits have a family member who served. The number of veterans in the population is declining.

Agnes Schaefer, Army assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, also cited the effect of base realignment and closure, especially in the Northeast, on recruiting. There “are huge swaths of the country” in which there is no post and where residents don’t routinely see “a person in uniform walking down the street.”

[Albion Wilde]

Could be the part of the population that responds to military service is too familiar with what it has become.

Yep; they got rid of all the officers who were loyal to the Constitution, all the white Christians who believe in the Bible's teachings, most of the whites and blacks from legacy military families, and everyone with stones enough to resist the MRNA jab. They lowered the fitness standards to indulge the women, and put women in combat units. They stuck trannies in the showers with the female recruits, gave overweight trannies a pass and awarded them desk jobs. Now they can't figure out why nobody wants to join.

[funwithfood]

Thanks. Yes French isn’t my first written language....

[central_va]

I look at this as good news. A standing army run by woke creeps is a dangerous thing.

[central_va]

Tripe?