[rktman]

Owwww Owwww Owwww! I know. Start the draft back up. I wonder how they would react to that. And still probably not find enough suitable subjects. Then again, probably some of them need to be in the military and might even do well with suitable guidance. It's happened before. Anyone else remember when, if someone got in trouble with the law, they were given an option of enter the system or join the service?

[Midwesterner53]

And still the brass in DC refuses to understand why no one with any sense wants to be in the military. (Retired Field Grade Army Officer)

[Vermont Lt]

One of the things not discussed widely is the number of 15-17 year olds who simply stopped going to school during Covid shut downs. Many of those kids would get courtesy graduations and roll into the military.

Many of those kids were the target market for military recruiters. But…now that cohort didn’t graduate high school…which was a pretty solid requirement.

So, the standards get lowered and they get the same kids they would have gotten anyway.

This is a direct result of COVID policies.

[Retain Mike]

I served in a meritocracy as a Navy officer during Vietnam. My chiefs were part of the Greatest Generation with service from the Battle of the Coral Sea to Okinawa.

I would never recommend anyone I know serve now, but then I don’t associate with the LGBQT-whatever crowd and their supporters. The services should now rely on these people. Obama made sure any officers who did not support that agenda left.

[joma89]

I will never recommend anyone joining the armed forces as it currently stands.

[itsahoot]

Anyone else remember when, if someone got in trouble with the law, they were given an option of enter the system or join the service?

I sure do. The army needs grunts far more than social worker graduates. I had a school chum that only made it through high school because of social promotion but he retired as a senior Master Sgt.

My first oath was in 1955.