Posted on 05/06/2022 11:34:26 AM PDT by Cathi
Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville admitted Thursday during a Senate hearing that the Army’s recruiting difficulties and its plan to reduce numbers accordingly would leave the force too small.
The Army is reducing its total active-duty force numbers over the next several years due to recruiting difficulties — an unprecedented step, according to some military experts.
The Army announced in March that the end strength, or total number of forces, would go from 485,000 active-duty soldiers currently to 476,000 in fiscal year 2022, which ends in September, and further down to 473,000 in fiscal year 2023. It is the lowest it has been since World War II, according to the Military Times.
Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-IN) called it “more serious than any recruiting challenge that I’ve experienced in the years that I’ve been here.”
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just damn...
i gotta watch that again, Sean was sooo hot
Yeah...they’ll likely go find the nearest Burger King and then when they don’t get extra ketchup or cheese or whatever on their quick fix will jump up on the counter and start with the hissy-fits.....
Inhofe is not R-IN.
“Army Chief of Staff Admits Recruiting Difficulties Will Leave Force Too Small”
Won’t matter once we succeed in getting Putin to take out our cities.
Won’t matter, once we succeed in getting Putin to take out our big blue cities in red states and of course DC.
Excellent post.
They won’t enlist just to be used and abused and crapped on.
And the US military is turning into a tool of the Globalists. F them all.
They destroyed the military with CRT and transvestites and now are allowed to complain recruiting numbers are low? Should be drawn and quartered.
“All by design, the Left wants a Draft. To them the military is the biggest social program of all”.
Yep. I hope it includes women. And they’re in for a surprise when they try to draft Soy Boys and Snow Flakes.
I’m a VN combat vet and I’ll harbor and do what I can to help the real Americans dodge the draft. They’d be used and abused and used as cannon fodder for the Globalists/WEF.
Good post.
Why risk your life for the CCP Biden’s Woke America? Best to let it fall like rotten fruit. If no one cares—why should you lose an arm or leg for this crowd?
You’re right- many stay in touch over the decades, the bond is strong.
It’s true that the new military will not be capable of actual war- they don’t get stress cards in battle zones and I’m just praying it doesn’t come to that..
I feel your anger. I served from LBJ thru Nixon, Carter, Reagan. I never dreamed there could be a worse CinC than Carter, nor a better one than Reagan. I don’t if I could have managed Obama and now this current CinC, who is a disgrace of such magnitude that Carter could be a face on Rushmore by comparison.
That’s right.
Amen bro. They treat them like crap, and wonder why they can’t get people to sign up. What A holes.
I did 20 years. I sure as heck wouldn’t do it today.
Welcome home bro. As you know, my son is an Air Force pilot. He went to USAF OTS during Trump. I am not sure he would join up now. He loved the Army and Marines so much, he joined the Air Force. 😀 He wanted to provide them with close air support. He may get his wish, since Biden wants America to commit national suicide. I don’t think fighting the Russians is exactly what he had in mind.
Good seeing you bro. Your son is a true Patriot. Thank him for his sacrifice and dedication.
It all just pisses me (all of us) off to no end.
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