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Lack of Awareness Largest Barrier to Military Recruiting, Officials Tell House Panel
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | December 14, 2023 | John Grady

Posted on 12/15/2023 9:09:40 AM PST by Retain Mike

The No. 1 challenge facing U.S. military recruiting is the American public’s lack of familiarity with its armed services, the Pentagon’s and services’ civilian personnel leaders testified Wednesday

. At the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee hearing, Franklin Parker, assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs, said “under 13 percent [of eligible recruits] have a parent that served” in one of the armed services.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), panel chairman, added four out of five recruits have a family member who served. The number of veterans in the population is declining.

Agnes Schaefer, Army assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, also cited the effect of base realignment and closure, especially in the Northeast, on recruiting. There “are huge swaths of the country” in which there is no post and where residents don’t routinely see “a person in uniform walking down the street.”

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KEYWORDS: military; recruiting
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Could be the part of the population that responds to military service is too familiar with what it has become. Here are a few articles I could instruct this person to read, but then willful ignorance can seldom be disturbed. What would you Add?

Next Joint Chiefs Chair Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority

https://www.frontpagemag.com/next-joint-chiefs-chair-wants-white-male-officers-to-be-a-minority/

US Navy hires active duty drag queen to be face of recruitment drive

https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/us-navy-appointed-active-duty-drag-queen-as-ambassador/

Class of ’20 Inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minors

https://www.westpoint.edu/academics/academic-departments/behavioral-sciences-and-leadership/diversity-and-inclusion-studies

Pentagon manual details rules for transgender military personnel

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/19/pentagon-manual-details-rules-for-transgender-military-personnel.html

Exclusive: Army Training Says Soldiers Must Shower with Transgender Persons of Opposite Sex https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/07/exclusive-army-training-says-soldiers-must-shower-transgender-persons-opposite-sex/

1 posted on 12/15/2023 9:09:40 AM PST by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

Agree, many of us familiar with the military wonder just what this Trillion Dollar monster has become, but one thing is quite OBVIOUS - under Democrat/Neocon rulers, it is certainly NOT meant to fight a non-perverted country.


2 posted on 12/15/2023 9:12:20 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Retain Mike

The Bud Light Military Don’t fall for it: they still hate you.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4195957/posts


3 posted on 12/15/2023 9:17:03 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Retain Mike

But somehow the smallest of the 4 main military branches (not counting the Coast Guard and the new Space Force) with the fewest veterans, the Marine Corps, is able to hit recruiting goals.


4 posted on 12/15/2023 9:18:02 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Retain Mike

But somehow the smallest of the 4 main military branches (not counting the Coast Guard and the new Space Force) with the fewest veterans, the Marine Corps, is able to hit recruiting goals.


5 posted on 12/15/2023 9:18:18 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Retain Mike
"The No. 1 challenge facing U.S. military recruiting is the American public’s lack of familiarity with its armed services, the Pentagon’s and services’ civilian personnel leaders testified Wednesday"

I think its quite the opposite. Or putting it another way: who wants to go die for Joe Biden and the Neocon simps? Much less your pink haired neighbor who thinks you are Satan incarnate? Or a DC apparatus that acts like the Stasi?

6 posted on 12/15/2023 9:20:53 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Retain Mike
But just a few months ago they were saying that they didn't WANT people who's family had a history of military service.

They probably should make up their minds before opening their cake holes.

7 posted on 12/15/2023 9:21:16 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Retain Mike

These guys are delusional. It is exactly the opposite, it is what Americans now know its military has turned into under this Affirmative Action SecDef and woke generals in the Joint Chiefs who are pushing woke ideology and Democrat agenda. It is also the fact that patriots in the military have been declared white supremacists and terrorists and being “hunted” down. And lets not forget the forced experimental jabs under threat of courts martial or expulsion if one refused.


8 posted on 12/15/2023 9:24:45 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: KarlInOhio

They have the best PR and the nicest uniforms.


9 posted on 12/15/2023 9:25:42 AM PST by suasponte137
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To: Retain Mike

““under 13 percent [of eligible recruits] have a parent that served””

Well, yeah. We know what the military is supposed to be and the dangers of it being a liberal hellhole. We won’t tell our kids they should join such a dangerous liberal organization.


10 posted on 12/15/2023 9:26:55 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

There has been a member of my family that has fought in every major American war since the Revolutionary War. I was career. I have told my kids to stay away- the govt doesn’t want patriots, it wants sheep (preferably brilliantly multicolored).


11 posted on 12/15/2023 9:27:12 AM PST by fini
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To: Retain Mike

The ones who aren’t aware of it would be those who join only for the benefits. They would cut and run at the first battle.


12 posted on 12/15/2023 9:27:32 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: KarlInOhio

“he Marine Corps, is able to hit recruiting goals.”

Barely. They only needed 33,000 and made it by only 21. Their numbers are usually much better than that. They pulled out all the stops to get there this year.


13 posted on 12/15/2023 9:28:54 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: fini
Oldest Son was interested in enlisting for at least a while, Daddy is career military, Grandfather was career military, Great Grandfather served in the Great War and so forth.

He is no longer interested.

14 posted on 12/15/2023 9:31:05 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

My dad who was retired US Army 1939-1963, refused to allow me to join whe Jimmah Cahtah was president.


15 posted on 12/15/2023 9:31:38 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Retain Mike

Indeed, the problem is too much awareness

They drove out christians with LGBTQ/Tranny promotion

They drove out southerners with the attack on Confederate-general base names

They drove out conservatives with woke nonsense

They drove out white males in general with constant DEI propaganda

They drove out free-thinkers with the vax mandates

Hope they enjoy their woke shit-show


16 posted on 12/15/2023 9:33:47 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

The fact is they want the draft, or to destroy the economy to the point that the military is the only option for a young person.

The military to them is the largest social program of them all.


17 posted on 12/15/2023 9:36:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: falcon99

These guys are delusional. It is exactly the opposite, it is what Americans now know its military has turned into under this Affirmative Action SecDef and woke generals in the Joint Chiefs who are pushing woke ideology and Democrat agenda. It is also the fact that patriots in the military have been declared white supremacists and terrorists and being “hunted” down. And lets not forget the forced experimental jabs under threat of courts martial or expulsion if one refused.

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well said...deserves a

Standing Ovation.


18 posted on 12/15/2023 9:38:37 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: dfwgator
"The fact is they want the draft, or to destroy the economy to the point that the military is the only option for a young person."

Well, I agree with you up to a point. I believe that they only want to draft other people and other people's children.

19 posted on 12/15/2023 9:39:20 AM PST by fini
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To: Retain Mike

What tripe


20 posted on 12/15/2023 9:44:00 AM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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