Posted on 12/30/2022 8:18:14 AM PST by rktman
The military’s standards for committed members and new recruits have dropped in 2022 as the services struggle to overcome challenges in filling the ranks.
Army recruiting plummeted in 2022, while the remaining services just made their recruiting goals for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to Department of Defense (DOD) data shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The military is scrambling to adjust policies in a way that attracts more recruits, prompting some lowering of physical fitness and academic standards that could negatively impact military readiness, a military expert told the DCNF.
“The military and the administration are trying to overcome the greatest recruiting challenge they have ever faced by reducing certain standards,” Thomas Spoehr, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, told the DCNF.
The Navy opened up the service to more prospective sailors who score at minimum levels on entrance examinations that test physical and mental aptitude on Dec. 5, Cmdr. David Benham, a Navy Recruiting Command spokesperson, told Military.com. New guidelines will allow 7,500 recruits, or roughly 20% of the new active duty enlisted cohort, from the lowest acceptable aptitude level to join.
While the Navy met its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goal with a surplus of just 42 sailors, the target for 2023 raises the ceiling by an additional 4,000 new applicants, according to Military.com. Officials insisted the change did not reflect a lowering of standards.
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The new standards optionally require retention of genitals and drop passage of morality testing.
5 million illegals in two years. Most of them seem to be men.
There’s the answer right there.
“Go Woke, broke the military”
The traditional pro-American, patriotic, young white males are being advised by their families and elders to stay away from the military because they hate you. This is the result. It’s all part of their plan.
There’s the answer right there.
I have no problem with giving these brave future warriors Ukranian citizenship for their sacrifices.
The real problem may be that young kids don’t want to be used as fodder in foreign, for profit wars that our government and the MIC have no intention of winning.
A turning point for me was my last two years 79-81, in Germany. My battalion commander, against great head winds, went on a mission to get rid of poor soldiers. We discharged over 60 in our 600 man battalion, he turned that battalion into a C-1 in 15 months.
As a platoon leader, I had my share of personnel problems, but I dealt with them. Again, I don't see much difference since 77-80.
77% of the conscription pool are ineligible for service because of health or criminal records.
Back then, I knew my senior leaders had my back, and I had the experiences to prove it. Today, I doubt I would've made 1st LT.
Roger that. I would never suggest it any longer. And, my family has been in and out of the service since the revolution as officers and enlisted...........
76-80 was not a popular time to be in the service after Vietnam and with James Carter as president.
Gee what could possibly be causing a decline in enrollment? Could it be that the military appeal was primarily to young men with masculine qualities and expectations and now the military has essentially banned masculinity?
“they were given an option of enter the system or join the service?”
And the military became the unproud recipient of every loser that the justice department didn’t want to deal with. In my years I have seen very few that survived 4 years let alone prospered.
People who were given that option to alleviate jail were normally not one time wonders. They were freguent flyers that showed up in front of the courts for idiotic things that were not enough to do anything to them to make an impression, just enough to give them a brief break in the action with room and board tossed in.
In later years the option was changed to give the offender the option of moving out of state, i.e. basically banished. But it didn’t change anything. When the member was ejected from the military for doing the same things that got him in, or through enough times of somehow getting lucky not to get caught, and he made the 4 years, where did they think he was going...it wasn’t Disneyworld.
So they handed the government the problem and the expense till the time frame matched the contract and he returned older, more learned in how to use the system, and the expense fell right back on them. So your tax dollars paid the baby sitting fees and he returned to the scene of the crimes to make more. Great solution, huh?
wy69
The Draft is coming, what better way to take young skulls full of mush and completely indoctrinate them.
LOL! Yeah, enlisting in ‘67 wasn’t the best time either.
LOL! I knew a couple of both circumstances in NM.
Had teachers say to my face how "disappointed" they were with my decision. LOL, that started my issues in dealing with authority figures. Only one teacher publicly supported me, my calculus teacher. He was a former Jesuit priest from Marquette that was thrilled I was matriculating at Gonzaga.
Like Steely Dan, I've never been back to my old school.
They could add 8,123 more by reinstating the military members that had the courage to refuse the experimental mRNA drugs.
And give them their duly earned back pay and benefits, with an apology from General Milley.
The fact that Democrats shut them out for refusing to be experimental subjects has to be a deterrent to freedom-loving potential recruits.
And all the republicans that voted for the $1.7,000,000,000,000 bill will fall all over themselves to tell you they vote for the military.
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