Posted on 11/20/2022 8:39:21 AM PST by ameribbean expat
The US Navy is facing recruiting challenges in a tight labor market, and has raised its maximum enlistment age to 41 in order to attract more sailors to the fleet. The Navy is also looking to increase its use of bonuses and other financial incentives to attract recruits.
While most of these middle age recruits will be eligible to serve in combat assignments in some of the most physically demanding Navy communities, including the NAVY SEALs, have age cutoffs that differ from the general enlistment age, reports the Navy Times.
“As we continue to navigate a challenging recruiting environment,” US Navy Commander Dave Benham told the Navy times. “Raising the enlistment age allows us to widen the pool of potential recruits, creating opportunities for personnel who wish to serve.”
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US citizens above the age of 41 have another option for serving their country at sea. Older individuals can obtain Merchant Mariner Credentials from the USCG and apply to sail aboard US Navy ships as civil service sailors with the Military Sealift Command. Recruits deciding on this option, however, must be able to obtain a security clearance and be capable of passing pre-employment physical examination. Those who want to sail as officers will need a USCG license and should contact a state maritime academy for information on enrollment.
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I heard of a CSM who tried cocaine for the first time at a party during his Terminal Leave. He went in to out-process a few days later, and whaddya know, his number came up for urinalysis. All his decades of service down the tubes, no retirement. Should he have tried coke? Heck no. But all those years, gone...
And then there was the Lt Col who got popped on urinalysis for prescription pain killers. They’d been prescribed for her, legit. But she took some after the prescription had expired. Again, busted out, no retirement...
That’s a fact.
and in many cases they were UNDER FIRE while doing it !!
As long as Ms Milley and Biden are in command, I’d say don’t even dare enlist, rejoin or whatever. DEI is not your friend in the military, and they’ll (Milley and Biden) will sacrifice your life to hide what’s going on with son Hunter and all the other stuff.
My guess is your brother-in-law already had some relevant experience. The navy guys they’re talking about hiring would, I’m guessing, have little relevant experience. I recall the 57-end date information. Fifty-seven, by the way, was when I started having medical issues for the first time ever.
BTW, someone who is forty-one and thinking about joining the navy, my guess is they have had little success in whatever you are doing now. One has to wonder why, when most of us are in our peak earning years someone would be joining the navy at the lowest rank. I’m imagining the “L” sign over the forehead.
You were correct to put the comma after “older”.
They were indeed.
love how that is the go to opinion of this around here.
It is indeed a factor, but honestly, who wants to be in Biden’s Military?
they kicked everyone out who didn’t want the clot shot
they promote perversity.
you get discriminated against if you’re white.
They won’t hire qualified pilots due to the color of their skin
I can go on.
I just don’ think you guys are being very open minded about this. Just look at the three star admiral that Biden has working for him.
“When I talked to someone in the know he said that the issues with youth were, in order, drugs, arrests, physically unfit, just plain stupid and face tattoos.”
Exactly. We are friends with the head of HR at the regional hospital here. He said that half of the applicants for all jobs at the hospital (from orderlies to physicians) are rejected because the applicants can’t pass a drug test or the criminal background check.
Yes, 41 year old sailors are acceptable, but they must be a size 12 or smaller.
And never conceived because of contraception.
That’s right. And if they’re white they will be subjected to all sorts of Wokeness. Who would join any of the Armed Forces to be called inherently racist, etc?
Unit cohesion must be in very bad shape by now.
Biden is just a temp the woke business is on the slippery slope.
The face tattoos would confirm the stupidity. And strongly suggest illicit drug use.
I have seen more tattoos at the beach on women than I ever did in the military on guys when it was only males serving. Dating myself I guess .
I retired from the USAF at 41. While I enjoyed my time while I was in, I never missed it for a second when I retired. It is for a young person to put up with the crap you have to go through. I can’t imagine trying to start in the military at 41. It would not work, for the person or the Navy.
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