Army program gives poor-performing recruits a second chance

AP via Yahoo ^ | 08/28/2022 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

[DFG]

Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service's academic test more than 10 times over the past decade.

Now, at age 29, Andrews thinks he has a real shot to pass, thanks to a new Army program that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards.

“I didn’t want to give up on it,” he said during a recent break in his classroom schedule at Fort Jackson, where he is one of more than 300 recruits who have been allowed to enlist in the new Army prep course. And if Andrews, who is from Brooklyn, New York, is able to raise his test score, he will be allowed to continue on to basic training.

The program, which began in early August, is one way the Army is hoping to fill the ranks as it struggles with recruiting efforts that are expected to fall dramatically short of the goals this year. Army officials have described the situation as dire, with some predicting the service may fall 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers short of its recruiting target on Oct. 1 , or as much as 18% to 25%.

Military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the totals are preliminary and could change, said the initial recruiting goal was as much as 60,000 this year, but more realistic expectations later put it at about 55,000. With one month to go, officials are predicting they will come in about 45,000, though it could get better if there is a surge at the end.

[PIF]

We had one of those also. He disappeared at some point.

[BipolarBob]

They had cake and balloons and those party favors you blow and they unroll. It was a blast.

[Jonty30]

KP or laundry

[NWFree]

Only low IQ idiots want to fight for libtards

[Signalman]

Makes me wonder where the Army puts the very lowest intellect soldiers, where they can do the least possible harm to themselves and others?

When I was in basic training at Ft. Dix, there was a guy who was a PFC (trainees were all E-1s) that worked as a cooks assistant. That was his career MOS. Every Sat. night he would go into Wrightstown, the town outside the front gate, get drunk and, Sunday morning, he would have a black eye or a cut lip resulting from a barfight. I would estimate his IQ as double-digit (mid 80s?)

[fieldmarshaldj]

They want fags. Lots of fags. And trannies. And fags.

[mware]

This guy was applying for USMA at West Point. God help us all.

[oldvirginian]

“Private Pyle was ridden by GySgt Hartman”

Seeing Private Pyle I could only think of Gomer Pyle and Sgt Carter, then I finally remembered Full Metal Jacket. Say what you will but R Lee Ermy had the best lines in the movie.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[Gene Eric]

>> Dodge ball teaches pain and humiliation, two vital skills for success in a meritocracy such as ours.

I was thinking exactly about humiliation. And nobody hated each other for it. And not uncommon for the “weak” to take out the “strong”.

[Gay State Conservative]

I saw an interview that Ermy gave once in which he said that Kubrick basically let him write his own part and write his own lines.

[SuperLuminal]

This is encouraging...
Certainly to the Chicoms as they plan for the next phase of the 2019 deadly sneak virus attack that crippled the U.S. economy and brought the communists to possession of the WH and Congress...

A military that is already controlled by faggots and fairies will soon have an average IQ substantially lower than the Sudanese...

A military that is already allowing the Chicoms to trample all over the graves of American marines and sailors in the Solomons...

What’s next?
Wake, Guam, New Guinea, & Hawaii???

Redux, all over again?

The biggest drawback to being 88.7 is that I can remember these same heated discussions between my parents and grandparents who had to put up with a communist sympathizer, FDR, and his thoroughly compromised Marxist administration...

[pfflier]

Speaks volumes as the state of the military New York City education system today and its idiot ridden leadership.

The military has too work with the recruit pool available,

The ASVAB is geared to a 10th grade education and the Army will accept the 35th percentile as passing. This guy must have no reading or reasoning skills at all.

[roving]

In Navy boot, if they fail, they get set back and have to do it all over again

[RetiredTexasVet]

Recruiting must really suck when they are targeting the short school buses.

[central_va]

When you attack southern history and tear down statues of RL Lee this is what you get. No recruits.

Go woke Army, go away.

[pepsionice]

I’ll make a prediction that the Army ends up with some program where you show up four weeks prior to boot-camp, and it’s purely 8 hours of hiking/exercise each day...getting you in shape for boot-camp a month later.

[central_va]

The problem is woke politics. There is no cure.

[grundle]

In 1994, a women named Kara Hultgreen had repeatedly failed her U.S. Air Force training in a flight simulator. However, there was pressure from the higher ups to get more female pilots. So they let her fly a real airplane. She crashed and died.

[grundle]

he has failed the service's academic test more than 10 times

Maybe he needs to look for a different line of work.