Posted on 10/07/2022 10:03:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting, fueling concerns that in the coming years units around the country may not meet military requirements for overseas and other deployments.
For individual states, which rely on their Guard members for a wide range of missions, it means some are falling short of their troop totals this year, while others may fare better. But the losses comes as many are facing an active hurricane season, fires in the West and continued demand for units overseas, including combat tours in Syria and training missions in Europe for nations worried about threats from Russia.
According to officials, the number of soldiers retiring or leaving the Guard each month in the past year has exceeded those coming in, for a total annual loss of about 7,500 service members. The problem is a combination of recruiting shortfalls and an increase in the number of soldiers who are opting not to reenlist when their tour is up.
The losses reflect a broader personnel predicament across the U.S. military, as all the armed services struggled this year to meet recruiting goals. And they underscore the need for sweeping reforms in how the military recruits and retains citizen soldiers and airmen who must juggle their regular full-time jobs with their military duties. …
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Sending the Guard overseas is flat out UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
If anyone bothers to read that document anymore.
Though I’m naught Traitor Roberts, I concur.
Considering they way they have bene treated starting with Jan6 2020, this should come as no surprise to anyone but the clueless as always, leftists.
Lolita C. Baldor can go pound sand, lying POS. She wouldn’t go near the real reasons for the recruitment issues.
Which article?
If I was young and there was a draft today I’d leave the country rather than serve under the likes of that draft dodger,”The Big Guy”.
Of course that doesn't happen often (if ever) with retirees but Reserves...National Guard...it does today.IIRC it seldom happened during Vietnam but things have changed.
Ping.
Same here. I use to be big FSN of promoting the military...but not anymore.
Not to mention the 13 Soldiers getting killed in the unorganized pullout.
One thing "leadership" have kept quiet is how many others were badly injured and maimed for life in that same incident.
Good. No one one’s want to get involved with a man made contingency started by the leftist kooks in DC!
“Curious if any boys from the South are signing up now”.
I was about to say almost the same thing.
Who wants to be called a racist, forced to get jabbed, etc.
Who wants to be used and abused?
The US might need to start hiring mercenaries.
“Is there anybody in charge at NG headquarters intelligent enough to figure this out?”
They are busy working on their own exit plan.
;-)
Oh dear. It’s getting so bad that if they want to oppress us, they’re gonna have to pick up rifles and do it their own green-haired pervert tranny selves.
“And I am 3rd generation military.”
My family has been bearing arms for this country since we took a ship here in 1776 from Ireland to enlist with the Continentals. One of us assembled and loaded the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons on Tinian. Dad flattened a Communist city from a B-52 in 1972. I served in the Corps.
We’ve always served to fight tyrants. We do not serve them. There’s no damned way I’d enlist today, and I tell any parents I know to keep their kids out of the Communist sh!t-show they’ve turned our military into.
This mission of the militia is 3-fold, as specified in the US Constitution. Invasion, rebellion, and enforce laws of the states. None of that mission involves overseas operations. No could the militia perform such duties overseas.
Furthermore, service is compulsory for males; the US Constitution doesn’t know anything about a “reserve militia” or “unorganized militia.” It is the only institution that is necessary for a free state. Not Congress, the Judiciary, the Executive, or any other organization is cited as necessary.
So the Dick Act of 1906 and the proceeding NDAA are unconstitutional on their face.
Yet no one challenged the militia being essentially rolled up into a modified version of the US Army reserve. We lost the ability to deal with what confronts us today, because we don’t know our Constitution, nor history.
If we followed the Constitution, illegal immigration, and unsecured borders would be solved over a weekend. Not to mention all the other agencies that were created after the 1906 debacle, to fill the void.
Dr Edwin Vieira’s book “Constitutional Homeland Security” is a resource. As is his video “Principles of a Constitutional Militia.”
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