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....
Nobody is going to want a recruiting job in this environment. Recruiters are evaluated just like everybody else in the military and if the evaluation sucks because nobody wants to come in to the military those recruiters shelf life and careers are over as well.
Gives them the excuse for the Draft!
Usually when a theory is so thoroughly repudiated by the facts, it's dropped. Not on the Left - it's doubled down on, every time. How's that working out again?
The woke high command will make it up with Illegal Invaders. It’s part of The Plan.
I just reread
Sorry
They need white recruits for the more intellectually demanding jobs, which are becoming an increasing part of military readiness.
This does not mean that all black recruits are stupid, but the higher-IQ ones are snagged by the private sector desperate to meet their DEI quotas.
And that's not even getting into the political specifics of the various anticipated conflicts.
Definitely not guilty!
AND Rome inflated their currency by substituting base metals for precious metals. Same path we are on.
The bastard Globalists/Elites want Cannon Fodder to protect their agenda and interests but panic when their policies to recruit and retain Cannon Fodder backfire.
The bastard Globalists/Elites want Cannon Fodder to protect their agenda and interests but panic when their policies to recruit and retain Cannon Fodder backfire.
The woke high command will make it up with Illegal Invaders. It’s part of The Plan.
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That’s for sure. And they’d not object to shooting Americans.
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Thanks.
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Love that Shiney Hin...err Boots!!
Love that Shiney Hin...err Boots!!
I’m retired military and I wouldn’t encourage anyone I know to serve in today’s military.
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