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A 43% Drop in White Recruits Caused the Army’s ‘Recruitment Crisis’
Front Page Magazine ^ | 16 Jan, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

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....


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: dei; military; race; recruitment
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To: Angelino97

YYYYYYYYUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!


61 posted on 01/16/2024 5:01:46 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Taxman

Ping


62 posted on 01/16/2024 8:37:37 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: texas booster

THis drop[ in recruitment is the fault of Austin, wh has been a failure as Sec, Def. from the get go. He is a strong DEI mavin....one wh pursues the minorities to enlist...but white recruits.....no, not really.

Thats why there is a 543% drop in white recruits. Austin wants to load the froces with minorities? Wonder why?


63 posted on 01/17/2024 4:09:08 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: MtnClimber

Marginalize and demonize Whites and they say, “No thanks - I don’t need this crap”.

Mission accomplished - only now we hear that it’s racists to send so many Blacks and other minorities into battle - soon, the armed forces will be unable to operate...


64 posted on 01/17/2024 4:15:04 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: trebb

“Operation Whitey” - Force white people to spend inordinately on social programs, while flooding his societies with nonwhites, who will vote against whitey, and use demographics to eliminate him.


65 posted on 01/17/2024 4:18:31 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

They cannot fix DEI by simply removing it at this point. It requires removal of Gender and Racial preferences for everyone but the White Male.

The White Male has abondoned the Race/Gender Discrimination Sector in this Nation, e.g., colleges, governments, police, and military.

If white women and minorities cannot give up their discrimination against white men, this Country is finished.


66 posted on 01/17/2024 6:21:37 AM PST by Jumper
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To: texas booster

Diversity for the sake of excellence is exceptional. Diversity for the sake of diversity is wrong.

This is the FR Quote of the Day. Sometimes it would be nice to have a FR Quote of the Day Page.

I nominate you and your Statement of Fact/Truth.

Libtards would agrue - Diversity for the sake of perversity!


67 posted on 01/17/2024 6:26:31 AM PST by Jumper
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To: T.B. Yoits

Or the Mountain Climbers, “We’ve got Cleets to Walk on Your Back” as We Pass You to the Top”

wink, wink


68 posted on 01/17/2024 6:28:42 AM PST by Jumper
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To: MtnClimber

DUMBASSERY!

DUMBASSERY THROUGHOUT THE SLOE JOE AND HOE ADMINISTRATION!

Is there even a slight chance that these DUMBASSES will be held to account for their DUMBASSERY?


69 posted on 01/17/2024 6:29:22 AM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: Candor7

Because Austin is so stupid as to be a tool. Austin is essentially working to make Blacks and minorities a more stupid, less intelligent group.

The net effect of this is that if the US has a global war, the cities will die, and those in the military will die. By sucking up the best of what I call the worst of American’s, the military is going to die a thousand deaths.

When America remerges from the carnage, it will be the rural common sense folk who inherent this Country and they will discriminate against those who don’t work in society by letting them starve during that period of survival.


70 posted on 01/17/2024 6:35:32 AM PST by Jumper
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To: Jumper

I agree, as long as we do not have China marching ots armies from San Francisco to Boston.


71 posted on 01/17/2024 9:12:04 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: MtnClimber

“ We are an Army that wants to look like America,”

Ok what are the US demographic stats?
Even that reasoning is flawed.


72 posted on 01/22/2024 12:47:02 PM PST by HollyB
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