[Paladin2]

As long as they are properly transgendered the DoD should be well satisfied.

[Navy Patriot]

Public Schools Are Threat To National Security

Public Schools Are Also Child Abuse.

[Buttons12]

“Military prep” school might be a useful thing...if they were serious.

[Brian Griffin]

“according to one advocacy group, is that “more than 70 percent of 17- to 24-year olds in the U.S. cannot serve in the military, primarily because they are too poorly educated, too overweight, or have a serious criminal record.”

Serious criminal record? What is the percentage on this?

As for “too overweight”, the military controls the food of and exercise of enlistees.

As for “too poorly” educated, 1950’s reading & writing plus 1960’s “science” updated should do the trick.

[Mears]

“The problem, according to one advocacy group, is that “more than 70 percent of 17- to 24-year olds in the U.S. cannot serve in the military, primarily because they are too poorly educated, too overweight, or have a serious criminal record.”

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I do not believe this 70% figure..

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[Ace's Dad]

I have another point of view. I contend that the military is using the educational system to "weed out" the undesirables. In other words, the few that make it despite the problems are the kind of recruits the military wants.

They are already motivated, likely physically fit, and able to blend in to a regimented organization.

[YouGoTexasGirl]

They’d get discharged if they said anything about strength. Obama wants us weak and he’s got us there fast. Saving their own retirement is losing America but money is their god....and God warned against that!

Even in Texas we’re getting soft quickly. Hard to love a country and work for a country that is fighting you and that is how many feel. Until we love God above all else and repent, we’re headed down under.

[loveliberty2]

The following is a copy of an ad run by a private textile company in North Carolina back in the 1980's. Sadly, the so-called "public" schools continue to fail the youth of America, for the same controlling bureaucracies and ideological forces of "progressivism" will not relinquish their coercive control and censorship of ideas which might enlighten and educate minds .

Yet, the title presents an interesting question.

[humblegunner]

The young are not in good physical shape; they don't have constructive personal values; and they are uninformed about history and the world.

I suppose then that they'll wind up writing blogs.

Like you.

[exDemMom]

The military has the luxury of picking the best. Back in the 1980s, I remember hearing a statistic that only 10% of the population is fit to join the military in terms of intellect, physical fitness, and overall health. I do not know how that figure compares to today, but I do know that military personnel are typically quite capable.

With less than 1% of the population serving in the armed forces, we don’t need 100% of high school or college graduates to be qualified to join the military. We only need enough qualified applicants to make sure the military gets to choose the best.

[leaning conservative]

How’s that donation to FR going? At least donate for pimping your blog...
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[MileHi]

Great article. PC is undermining national security.

Soetoros military is embracing PC.

[leaning conservative]

Or maybe, “Blog my pimp.”

[achilles2000]

I would have thought that by now you would have recognized the absurdity of advocating government school reform. It makes even less sense than advocating the “reform” of Soviet collective farms would have.

[Arthur McGowan]

Government schrooling is part of ghe overall anti-Constitutional plan to DESTROY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The inability of the military to find fit recruits is the LEAST of the harm government schrools are doing.

[ChessExpert]

I was reading this to find out where the author was coming from. I soon gave up. I got down to:

“Surely, the Military Establishment has an obligation, indeed a duty, to make the Education Establishment do a better job.”

The author does not seem to realize that the Department of Defense (DoD) has a limited mission. Contrary to Obama, it is not to “save” the environment. Contrary to this author, DoD is not the Department of Education. Even the Department of Education has (should have) a limited role as education is mostly a local function.

Doesn’t the author realize that it is Congress that has the power of the purse? It is against the law for DoD to spend money for any purpose besides those for which funds have been appropriated and authorized by Congress.

DoD may well complain about the quality of our high school graduates. This article provides a shining example of ignorance, thereby supporting the assertion that our schools produce students (to include the author of the article) who are not intellectually equipped to be citizens and vote responsibly.

[Chode]

first things first... ABOLISH the teachers union!!!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well all that and they are communists.

[trebb]

It’s the same education system that produces the PC?LGBT-loving folks that the Pentagon has been adopting as “good for the military”.....

[FreedomPoster]

"Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.... the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and as a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur- others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves.... We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament."

-- Glenn Seaborg, August 1991