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Thanks To Leftist Corruption, U.S. Military Recruiting Is In Total Freefall

BY: CHUCK DEVORE

JUNE 29, 2022

The military is facing its most severe staffing crisis since the advent of the all-volunteer force in 1973.

Amid the first conventional war in Europe since 1945 and China’s massive military buildup — including nuclear weapons — the U.S. military is experiencing a dangerous drop in its warfighting capability. The U.S. Army, the largest service, has only reached 40 percent of its recruiting goal with just more than three months remaining in the fiscal year.

As a result of its massive recruiting shortfalls, the U.S. Army has lowered its standards, dropping requirements for recruits to have a high school diploma or GED to enlist, while relaxing tattoo restrictions to allow tattoos on hands and neck without a waiver. These two decisions will result in a less capable force with troublesome discipline issues. The Army is even offering enlistment contracts as short as two years — barely enough time to learn the basics of modern warfare.

The DoD is even reviewing more than 250 disqualifications for service, such as asthma and ADHD. With only 23 percent of Americans ages 17-24 qualified to serve in uniform without a waiver and just 9 percent of those eligible to serve even interested — the lowest since the Iraq War troop surge in 2007 — something has to give, with some experts suggesting that a draft might be needed again. Fears over not being able to meet uniformed staffing levels might have informed the seven Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee who voted to require women to register for a military draft in June.

Biden’s defense officials may hope money solves the problem, but they’d be better advised to look in the mirror instead. When you openly accuse the military of being rightwing and harboring white supremacists, insist on schooling them in transgender pronoun usage, and then force them to get vaccinated for a Covid-19 virus that’s less threatening than the flu for the young and healthy military demographic, you shouldn’t be shocked that they don’t want to enlist under a leadership they neither trust nor admire.

I see the machinations taking place by the military, in the effort to meet recruiting goals. It's the same we encountered at the advent of the AVF.

I was ADA, Chaparral/Vulcan. We were strapped when it came to personnel moves. I don't recall ever getting above 80% strength. Carter's policies weren't helpful, either, nor was his Secretary of the Army, Clifford Alexander. We needed bodies, so we made do with what we had.

I had a very effective disciplinary tool: promise (I never threatened, lol) to transfer them to a sister battalion that was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, where they'd spend 8 months out of the year, training in the red mud of Grafenwoehr. Or, they could get their act together, and continue having their omelets made to order in the Hahn AB dining facility.

There were several in my platoon(s) that did just enough to not cross the line. That included a few squad leaders, too. Somehow, we made it work.

I do not favor a return to the draft, it's the easy way out. Rich boys have been finding ways to avoid the draft since the Civil War, and I don't see anything new under the sun...even not so rich boys, that lied through their teeth to avoid the draft. Right, Clinton (you SOB)? Any move toward the draft should include drafting women. Sorry girls, you've been crying for equal rights, here's your chance.