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Might be good for my 70+ yo brother. It would get him off the couch in front of the TV and out of the house.
Ruh Roh! First Army, then Navy?
Will there be an age limit to these recalled military retirees? Beyond a certain age. costs will exceed short term benefits.
KISS MINE Brandon!
This is why a military retirement isn’t a retirement at all.
It’s a retainer.
I retired in 2009 and recently got communications from the USAF saying they were looking for Lt Cols with my AFSC to return for 2-year tours of duty.
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Only 23 percent of core military draft population is physically or mentally capable of being able to serve.
In WW2, the USA had 55 percent of the draftable population in the military.
If the Russians in 2023 can get to 55 percent eligible, they would actually have a manpower advantage over the USA even though they have 150 million less population.
In preparation for the Boer War, the British military found that 2/3 of the population from the slums were physically incapable of serving because of disease and physical problems.
The USA has become so decayed that they could send their population to live in 19th Century British slums, and raise the military capability of the draft pool !
My wife was recalled from the IRR in 2003. She was disqualified for her Bipolar condition.
I tried to volunteer (retired E8 in 1992). They would accept me but only for CONUS (stateside) assignment.
“War is a Racket”, Maj. General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1935
An oldie but still goodie:
Drafting Guys over 60
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a military unit until you’re at least 35.
For starters:
Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. ‘My back hurts! I can’t sleep, I’m tired and hungry’ We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn’t even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, ‘I’m tired and can’t sleep and since I’m already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.
If captured we couldn’t spill the beans because we’d forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We’re used to getting screamed and yelled at and we’re used to soft food. We’ve also developed an appreciation for guns. We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I’ve been in combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I’ve never seen anyone out run a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He’s still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn’t figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm’s way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.
After 9/11 green berets in their 50s were being asked to come back.
What "peacetime" operation could be so urgent that they would need to reactivate the very "domestic terrorists" that the derpstate so hates?
Well, as long as there’s coffee.
Let the sexual weirdos running the military recruit ‘their own’ to serve.
Maybe bring in some the drug addicted whore monger sons of DC ‘elites’. Raid the private schools for their brats. It’s their families that benefit. Let them defend the country.
Why should every day Americans die and risk their lives for a country run by perverts and ‘progressives’? Really, why?
The elite one world globalist think there are too many people. Plan A was the pandemic but the Chinese screwed up and it was not as deadly as they wanted so now we are onto plan b - WWIII where they expect to not only reduce the population but like in WWI take out the troops that would turn against them when their plans for the future became known. (Or not) It is the point where I doubt few really know what is going on or what the real goal creating all this chaos is.
Just retired from DoD. Army retiree with 22 years.
My MOS was 96C, Russian linguist. Used it for years in the former Soviet Union, actually worked in Belarus and Ukraine.
I wonder if I can get them to bump up my rank if I am called?
Sorry, I won’t be fighting for Ukraine (ie: walk into a meat grinder to be wasted on purpose) while the dems flood the country with illegals in preparation to overthrow our govt
Easy fix for this is when you are recalled, just show up 40 lbs overweight with a big honking joint in your mouth.
Wine improves with age.