Posted on 01/11/2023 11:00:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
The U.S. Army is expanding a pre-basic training course that allows candidates to enlist who do not meet the weight and aptitude requirements in an effort to fight a recruiting crisis plaguing every branch of the military.
An initial pilot for the program at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in August was open to recruits who had 6% more body fat than Army standards or had scored between 21 and 30 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test.
Now, the Army will launch four additional companies, two of which will be at Fort Jackson and another two at Fort Benning, Georgia, allowing room for 2,000 additional recruits per year at Fort Jackson and a total of 6,400 recruits per year at Fort Benning.
“The Future Soldier Prep Course is giving young Americans who want to serve the chance to do so by helping them not only meet our standards but, in many cases, rise above them,” Gen. James McConville, the Army’s top officer, said of the expanded program, according to a Military.com report Monday. […]
Recruits have 90 days to boost their test scores or lose enough body fat to be considered compliant with Army standards and ship off to basic training, with 2,965 of the 3,206 students that have participated so far successfully completing the course.
The program is designed to expand the pool of potential Americans who qualify for service in the Army, a move made necessary by a recruiting crisis that has left all branches scrambling to fill their ranks. Fiscal year 2022 was the worst year for military recruiting since the services switched to an all-volunteer force in 1973. …
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If you spurn your gay fellow in the foxhole he may not cover you when you need it.
This is the woke military the generals and admirals want for the USA.
“One, two, three what are we fightin for”
Do they still need to score higher than Biden on the cognitive skills test?
She only had one year left to go. She let them kick her out.
She only weighed 85 pounds. She finally packed on the 22 pounds a year ago. (Excluding her 3 pregnancies)
This is the talking point spin. The REAL reason they can’t get decent recruits is the military went woke.
Spin, get back to merit and kick out fags and wieirdos you will get decent recruits.
Yipes. Apparently free sex change operations and White Anxiety classes aren't enough of a draw. What else could young people want?
Faux News’ reporting is indistinguishable from the rest of the left-wing media. Twelve years of “course correction” sure would do that.
BTW, I heard a couple of days ago that the Army revived its old “Be All That You Can Be” advertising slogan.
So vaccine status impacted mission readiness, but fat slobs won’t…got it.
Overweight and not so smart.
What could go wrong?
In times of war, those would be the first to get killed. So, the woke military and government is going to get many thousands of military personnel killed, easily. Sitting ducks.
candidates to enlist who do not meet the weight and aptitude requirement
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The stupid pizza brigade?
Trannies and queers weren’t enough to fill recruiting requirements, so they’ve had to branch out to fatties and morons too.
If you want to serve under Biden, you’ve already failed the IQ test.
Woke people are generally fat and stupid. If that is who you value you have got to cut them some slack.
Camp Fat Camp.
There was never enough time for all the training we needed for our military, more weeks was a constant and permanent plea.
Now time is not a problem, another week for basic training to teach wokeness and sex issues, more time and training to get people in shape just so that they can show up at basic?
Hey, all the time and budget in the world.
Wait until they need training for the training; two layers of prep before basic.
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