71% Of Eligible Gen-Zers Don’t Qualify For Military Due To Obesity, Criminal Records And Other Reasons: Who Will Defend The Country in the Future?

Survival Economics ^ | 05/10/2021 | Tyler Durden

[lepton]

Even beyond that, they’ve also purged and rejected their traditional base of recruits.

[LegendHasIt]

The genetically enhanced Chinese Soldiers of our Chinese Overlords will protect their American Territory.

[TheWriterTX]

It is certainly not my father’s army anymore.

The Woke and the Joke ruined it.

[joma89]

The Chinese, I would guess.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

If the only goal is to get our kids into shape for military service but is not military service in itself, what’s stopping us from doing this?

[robowombat]

‘The Calling’ is positively satanic. It clearly says ‘White men, eat sh*t and die. The Army wants no part of you. We want a military of evil mercenaries, queers, identityless floaters, confused psychos and misfits who will be happy to murder Trump Americans en mass.

[kearnyirish2]

“Who Will Defend The Country in the Future?”

Younger people see nothing to defend here - and the open borders are one of the reasons.

[9YearLurker]

We’re essentially conquered without a kinetic war as it is.

[oldtech]

Maybe after we get the political & educational end of things straightened out & flying right side up, then we can work on getting the military back to what it should be. It might call for reinstatement of the draft as well.

[MSF BU]

With conscription there would be no need to draft them. We’d leave ourselves open to the absurdity of drafting cheerleaders while the fullbacks stay home. We’d have the opportunity to reverse the sexual integration of units, remove the romantic element and also raise physical fitness standards.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The goal is to make them fit for military service *prior* to their service itself. The better quality the recruits, the better the trainees, with much less need for *remedial* training, that basic training is not really designed to do.

A practical goal is to make the pre-camp recruits *better* than the typical recruits, so the word gets out that pre-training is the way to go for the majority.

Eventually, pre-camp can be improved by making up for missing schooling, such as literacy, and then can even incorporate classrooms for things like military history, culture and traditions. Subjects that normally take years to learn, if at all, when on active duty.

[Secret Agent Man]

not at all absurd

they can be placed in logistics roles

armies need clerks and non-coms as well

[MSF BU]

Clerks? Everybody needs to be able to reconstitute and fight as infantry. https://www.amazon.com/This-Kind-War-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/1574883348

Why would you want to put the romantic element on the combat team when a draft would provided all the men you need into the Army. We don't draft people into the Navy or Air Force but there would be an incentive to join as there was up to 1973.

[MSF BU]

I think they should have the Trump and Romney boys in that lineup.

[Svartalfiar]

I have long advocated for inexpensive pre-basic training camps, with the idea to get them in shape and physically fit *before* basic training. All you need is about 1 square mile, divided by flat and paved hills of several grades.

The National Guard already has something like this. Once you enlist, you're placed in an RSP unit that you do monthly drills with until you leave for basic. Start learning ranks, Creed, Army song, and do PT at least two days a month. Gives kids a much better start on basic than active duty recruits.
Recruit Sustainment Program.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Not quite what I was looking for. What I would target are those that are 20-50 pounds overweight, who have never exercised, and are generally borderline for health because of it. Smokers, drinkers, “otaku”-types who have spent years playing games on computers.

These are far more common among civilians. A pre-camp would go for a complete health rebuild. This is why they are all on individualized diets and six days a week exercise under supervision.

It could even have goal rewards for meeting and exceeding standards.

Once again, the higher this can raise the average for basic camp, the better their training there can be. And the cost to the military would be peanuts compared to about anything else.

[Svartalfiar]

Not quite what I was looking for. What I would target are those that are 20-50 pounds overweight, who have never exercised, and are generally borderline for health because of it. Smokers, drinkers, “otaku”-types who have spent years playing games on computers.

Well yea, RSP is only for those who have already enlisted in the Guard, just waiting for their basic ship date. It's not really open to the general public, although Guard does allow random people to attend drill as a kind of try-it-before-you-buy-it type of thing.

The military hosting some kind of major exercise camp is very unlikely, as the logistics in that is decently complicated, and that's a large-ish expense on people who aren't in the military, and probably not likely to join it either. One thing I think the military does terribly is generic civilian engagement/interaction. Sure, people who live near a major military base might get to see the cool stuff during Fleet Week or occasional public events, but those are rare and not very in-depth. Hell, I think we should have some Guard guys bring a pair of Humvees out to high school football games or other major events, just for people to see/talk to. Not even recruiters, but just from a random unit.