Posted on 09/02/2009 8:21:21 PM PDT by Sarah-bot
Under pressure from the Pentagon to trim its ranks, the Guard has been quietly phasing in new restrictions that make it harder to enlist...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
However, the Pentagon finances the National Guard.
Hey America! How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya?
“Sounds like Bammie is going after the ACORN and union thug’s competition.”
Agree that is what is sounds like. Not an idea to discount.
This looks pretty malign to me. I would guess that there might be more enlistments with this tough economy. But according to the article, enlistments are down, evidently because Obama has been throwing up new barriers.
More brownshirts and fewer troops? It sure sounds like it.
That may be true, but I still don’t like it. Perhaps, the the Federal Government should cut Auto industry bailouts and leave funding available to states for Guard recruitment.
>>“Sounds like Bammie is going after the ACORN and union thug’s competition.”
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>Agree that is what is sounds like. Not an idea to discount.
Even if it is, there’s one thing being dismissed here: the patriotism of ‘retired’/’dismissed’/’unenlisted’ people. I, for example, am about to ETS. hat does not mean that I’ll simply roll over and “take it in the ass”... but it does mean that I will be freer from “peer-pressure”/”orders” should distasteful [Contra-Constitutional] orders come down the line. It also means I am a lot freer to “slam the toilet lid” on the dicks doing horrible things to my country with less concern for “retribution”/’Payback’. (Despite ‘whistleblower’ laws.)
I wonder if phasing out the volunteers they’ll phase in a draft.
Good point Marron
Nope.
The Army, according to a recruiter I spoke with a month ago (nephew wanted to enlist) said that they have 44,000 more enlistees than the Army needs.
The economy is so bad that people with management experience and Masters degrees are enlisting in all branches, including the Coast Guard. The military is reviewing performance records and getting rid of ‘dead wood’, primarily enlisted people whose performances have been borderline for years.
This happened back in the early 1980s for exactly the same reasons.
Stop. Making. Sense.
Thanks.
My grandson just enlisted. He took the test, and had to come back for a re-test because his score wasn’t high enough. He got it on the second try. He goes right after Christmas.
My son commented that the failing score was higher than his passing score a few years ago when he went in. So maybe that explains it. Thanks again.
We are the Acorn nuts an union squirrel’s competition. We will win because we are willing to work for free to preserve liberty and our republic
Would that be 44,000 recruiters ?....:o)
He’s got the civilian national security force or whatever he called it to get up and running. NG just eats into the defense costs/budget, especially when they’re activated...remember he wants the civilian force to be as well funded and trained...frees up (some) cash. No need for NG when you have the civilian security force! You know what’s weird, my husband has been saying for a couple of years he expects a national police force type thing (besides FBI,etc). I pray he’s wrong.
About time to get ready to put the hammer on the mammy jammers.
Let em cut the ranks. It doesn’t matter. The militias are more alive and well than anyone thinks. Remember there are 280 million plus firearms in the hands of American Patriots.
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