US Army falls 25% short of recruiting goal

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[ameribbean expat]

While the Army was the only service that didn't meet its target, all of the others had to dig deep into their pools of delayed entry applicants, which will put them behind as they begin the next recruiting year on Saturday.

[ameribbean expat]

Trump's fault. /s

[irishjuggler]

“Go woke, go broke.”

[gundog]

An Army of 3/4?

[ansel12]

To the left, everything is about money and material things.

They don’t understand the deeper drives, even biological drives.

[moovova]

You mean the ones with she/her and he/his pronouns don’t count as double?

[Alter Kaker]

Maybe they should pay more? I run a business and I don’t know anybody in the US who made their recruiting goals in the last year. That’s a huge problem around the entire economy. Not surprised the Army would be in the same boat as the rest of us.

[Newbomb Turk]

Smart people don’t want to be cannon fodder for the Biden administration.

Joining the Army, basically they own you. I was an E-7 in Iraq. I calculated that I made less than minimum wage based on the fact that I worked around 18-20 hours a day, 7 days a week for 15 months.

Now you can make 15 dollars an hour at Walmart and get free college too. The Army lost its selling point of free higher education.

Mandatory Vax also caused an a plan early of retirements and discharges. Smart move Miley.

[lodi90]

Money isn’t the problem here. Private sector opportunities and wokeism are. When the economy fully tanks I expect the military will start meeting recruitment goals again.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

[Feckless]

I spent 20 years in the Army. It made me a man. It made me a leader of men.

It’s a Sad day when I can’t, in good conscience, encourage young American Patriots to join the Military.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Monty Python Military Fairies

[TokarevM57]

......”.....While the Army was the only service that didn’t meet its target, all of the others had to dig deep into their pools of delayed entry applicants,.....”

okay...let’s see....HIV positive applicants...OK!!! transgender applicants....OK!!! those who somke left-handed cigarettes, i.e., queers....OK....!! those who basically hate the United States but who will put on a uniform for a steady paycheck.....OK...!! and on, and on, and on....my 28 years of military service were certainly spent in another universe.....

[EEGator]

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

[Retrofitted]

My son can't enlist because he's taken Ritalin within the last two years. That's a real quick 3 million kids removed from the recruitment pool. Of course, if my son was transitioning, and could get a doc to sign a waiver that the Ritalin was part of his "transitioning journey", then he'd be able to enlist.

I talked him into go into trade school instead. One less soldier, one more electrician, and lots less wokeness with electrons.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I guess it’s time for the Biteme admin to start their next letters to the Gen Z folks like this, “Greetings...”

LOL.

5.56mm

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So “We HATE you white extremists” isn’t playing so well?

[RckyRaCoCo]

Remember, FJB LOL'd...while threatening (2nd amendment)patriots with F-15's if they ever rose against (corrupt) gov.?....

I'd like to think in that SHTF scenario, he'd be hard-pressed to find folks to fly those sorties...against their OWN blood.

[EEGator]

It has nothing to do with money.

[BitWielder1]

When it becomes clear even to the youngest, that our government has obvious contempt for our military, police and everything that makes our forces strong and effective, why would anyone in their right mind sign up?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I doubt that you hate your white customers or your white employees the same way the DOD hates its white employees and white bosses.