Posted on 12/19/2010 10:35:34 AM PST by Texas Fossil
The Pentagon reports that 75 percent of Americans aged 17 to 24 cannot join the United States military - 26 million young Americans.
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Even with a high school degree, many potential recruits still fail the Armed Forces Qualification Test (the AFQT) and cannot join.
(Excerpt) Read more at cdn.missionreadiness.org ...
What I found troubling about this document was that it is stated to have originated with Retired Military but the flavor of the document is more in line with the U.S. Department of Education.
I think this is a pure propaganda piece.
If you look at the list of retired officers it includes "Weasley" Clark.
This is the 2nd article I have read this week mentioning the phrase "high school degree". My high school graduation document was a diploma not a degree. This generated an "error message" in my mind, not on my computer.
What do you think?
The source of the document using dogpile.com was:
d15h7vkr8e4okv.cloudfront.net/NATEE1109.pdf
Maybe gays can score higher on the military tests.
Yup. The solution? Why spend more on early education (of course). No propaganda here. [/s]
If this is true it only serves to show what a poor job our PUBLIC schools do.
What do you mean."If this is true" Off course it is true! The plan implemented by the socialist in the early 60's has been working perfectly. You want proof? Just hang out a help wanted sign and sit back to see who responds. Most of the respondents cannot perform elementary math problems. Reading, if a book or pamphlet doesn't contain mostly pictures don't bother to show it to them.
Assembly tasks are often made easier for them when matching colors are used to show where components are to be connected. Just where do you think the color code wires on your new computed came from.
However, in their defense, hungry people can often be sent to do tasks that others shrink from.
If you search on dogpile.com for the 3 names of the authors one of the hits you get is on the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Union) website.
names:
William Cristeson, Amy Dawson Taggart, Soren Messner-Zidell
website:
It is also interesting that 2 of the three authors have hypenated names (most lib women prefer to do that)
Wow, don’t get in such an uproar. Of course I believe it but I put in a qualifier because there are always those on FR who will raise he** if you don’t. Instead I get you raising he** because I used one. Can’t win I guess.
AFQT? I took an ASVAB test to come into the military. AFQT is the score derived from your ASVAB results to see if you qualify for specific jobs in the military. You don’t “fail,” rather you don’t qualify. There are many jobs that require a low AFQT to qualify, but there may not be as many job positions available as people wanting them.
Maybe another “Project 200,000”. I served with some of that select bunch back in the early 70s and believe me some could barly walk and chew gum at the same time. Nowdays many of the college students I teach are capable of learning and applying knowledge but have never been taught how to learn or what to learn. Then again, maybe many of their teachers in K-12 would have qualified for Project 200,000.
There’s a lot of truth in that document.
Someone who is not physically fit will get you killed by not keeping up.
Someone with a criminal record can’t be trusted, EVER.
Someone who lacks an education will be a problem in any emergency, because they won’t know what to do. They also cannot be trusted, because the reason they are uneducated is probably that they are lazy.
There is one other person who I would never serve with. dopers. They won’t be mentally there when you need them.
1. I was/am puzzled about how the “cloudfront.net” error seemed associated with this article.
2. The phrase “high school degree” was a puzzle. I have only seen it once before and it must be associated with some “professional” educator thing. I have a degree, but my high school document is a diploma.
3. When I looked at the list of officers who endorsed this, there was Wesley (Weasley) Clark. Anything he is for, is a threat to the nation. He is a DEM shill POL fraud.
4. The data sources they used were Dept. of Education, Census and other Education (union related) organizations.
5. I am convinced that the quality of education in the U.S. has gone down steadily since the establishment of the Department of Education.
6. Most X-Mil officers that I have know are no nonsense effective people, unlike most college educators. I have however read that the PC thing has also affected the Flag level officers in the Military. The University that I graduated from in 1970 preferred to hire retired Army Colonels. I was very comfortable with the perspective they had then, and have seen evidence lately that the school still practices that approach.
“...early 60’s...”
You mean ‘thirties! The 1830s!
Government schooling has ALWAYS been un-American. It was imported by anti-Christian socialists in the first half of the 19th Century, and finally battened down on all of America in 1918.
There NEVER WAS a truly American government schooling. It has become worse and worse, and more and more socialist—but it was never a “good” system that got hijacked by the Left. It was ALWAYS a system of the Left.
Never having attended a public school, I will deffer to your superior knowledge.
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