Posted on 01/16/2024 7:44:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
The real military recruitment crisis is DEI discrimination against white people.
The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse.
That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.
Between 2018 and 2023, white Army recruits, once the mainstay, fell from a bare majority of 56% to a minority at 44%.
This was not an unintended effect, but policy.
“We are an Army that wants to look like America,” Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, the first black head of Army Recruiting Command, had proclaimed.
Gen. Gary Brito, the first black head of Army Training and Doctrine Command under whose purview recruiting falls, and the former deputy Army chief of staff for personnel, had boasted of Army “listening sessions” on racism, diversity and inclusion in order to maximize diversity.
Military brass had been tasked with creating a military that “looked more like America” and as a result the number of white Army recruits declined year by year and fell 43% from 44,042 in 2018 to 25,070 in 2023.
Black, Hispanic and other minority recruits became a majority, but there weren’t any more of them than there had been before. Minorities were joining the Army at the same rate as they had before, but with fewer white recruits they had become a majority by default.
Pushing white men away with DEI struggle sessions, affirmative action quotas and mandatory pronoun training was supposed to open the door for minorities who were being ‘blocked’ by the ‘whiteness’ of the military from joining up and serving, but the minorities aren’t showing up.
Equity had created a recruitment crisis with a majority-minority enlistment population that looked good on paper, but without the white recruits, the Army experienced a shortfall of 10,000 recruits. Rather than growing the Army, the emphasis on DEI had shrunk it instead.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth urged “strategically deploying recruiters to communities across the country based on demographics, ethnicity, race, and gender.”
40% of military recruits come out of the South, 44% come from rural areas and the Army instead began recruiting in “underrepresented cities” like Baltimore, Minneapolis, and New York City.
Wormuth, who got her start as a Clinton intern, complained that, “today more than 80% of recruits come from military families. There is a risk of developing a warrior caste when only 1% of the population serves in the military.” But without the “warrior caste”, no one serves.
Woke military leaders turned their backs on the white rural men from military families who represented their recruitment base and instead began chasing minority recruits in NYC....
The military needs white outreach now....”Embrace the Hate”.
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Gee, I guess they need the white supremacists after all.
That is OK the Teleban, ISIS and Iran personal are signing up.
You kick someone repeatedly in the balls, and expect them to say “Thank you, Sir! May I have another?”
All the left’s tactics to destroy America!
The story behind the story is the current recruits lack the aptitude to actually employ the complex tools of war to be effective. Ya they can point a gun but as we progress our equipment and complex systems will begin to fall apart just like Russia and China’s do.
The focus has shifted from professionalism to a job welfare program for the deranged, mentally unstable people have no capacity for the rigor of thought and discipline of effort to maintain our current modern military.
They will be effective thugs with guns but nothing more.
A desired result in the fundamental transformation of America.
Weak American military means an easier excuse for surrender after the upcoming Day of Infamy, 21st Century style.
Obama and the Left play the long game. GOPe plays to get along and share the spoils.
Recruits will diminish to zero soon. Who would want to join a combat unit made up of trannys, perverts and cross dressers?
Thanks Gen. Milley!
Short version: the current regime would rather have white males as demonized scapegoats than disposable cannon fodder.
DEI is systemic racism.
I know more than few kids in their 20s - non-lib, average, suburban white boys
First of all, there’s a general softness/hedonism among Gen Z society, lack of patriotism, lack of trust in institutions (which is deserved)
Add in this Democrat/leftist Race-mongering and white-hate, and white boys from solid families, they and their parents see this VERY clearly.
I have no doubt this is what traditional Roman families in the 3rd century AD saw as well - a bloated and corrupt government, pissing away money, bloated with debt, that was not working in their interest - relying on political strife and slogans to stay in power.
Its why Rome needed to resort to mercenaries and foreigners to man the Legions.
They prefer to have minorities as cannon fodder. Is that what you’re implying?
West Point was turning away even very well qualified white candidates while its Director of Admissions admitted that “every qualified African-American applicant were offered admission into West Point, yet the class composition goal was still lacking.” The goal was the United States Military Academy’s intensive quota system meant to cut 20% of white officers from the mix.
The Academy has been sued by qualified white candidates, including a high school student with a 4.2 GPA, three family members currently serving in the military and a grandfather who fought in the Army on D-Day, who were kept out because their skin color was not diverse enough.
Diversity for the sake of excellence is exceptional. Diversity for the sake of diversity is wrong.
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Gives them the excuse for the Draft
To conquer their true enemies in America's suburbs and rural areas, that's probably all they need.
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