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The Army Might Be Ditching Its ‘Woke’ Image As It Faces Historic Recruiting Problems
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | March 11, 2023 | Micaela Burrow

Posted on 03/14/2023 8:58:21 AM PDT by george76

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To: george76

The Army needs to dump it’s WOKE idiocy and not just the appearance of WOKE stupidity...

If the Pentagon thinks they have trouble recruiting now, just wait til word gets out they’re lying not just risking our lives for nothing...

Besides I thought the plan was to have all the cool kids from elite families sign up? What happened to ‘we accept elite gays’ and love trans??

Let the damn elites fight their own wars - the wars that only benefit them and their fellow elites. They can fight them with their own children. NOT ours. Eff ‘em.


41 posted on 03/14/2023 10:18:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden: The Banking system is safe. The borders are secure. Hunter's laptop is disinformation.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The Army needs to dump it’s WOKE idiocy and not just the appearance of WOKE stupidity...

If the Pentagon thinks they have trouble recruiting now, just wait til word gets out they’re lying about this and NOT just risking our lives for nothing...

Besides I thought the plan was to have all the cool kids from elite families sign up? What happened to ‘we accept elite gays’ and love trans?

Let the damn elites fight their own wars - the wars that only benefit them and their fellow elites. They can fight them with their own children. NOT ours. Eff ‘em.


42 posted on 03/14/2023 10:20:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden: The Banking system is safe. The borders are secure. Hunter's laptop is disinformation.)
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To: george76

Pentagon has an open, inner quad. Good for rifle team practices. Line up every Ahole who did not object to woke crappola and get rid of them.


43 posted on 03/14/2023 10:23:36 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: george76

A country whose leadership zealously protects the rights and dignity of its individual citizens, would never need to “recruit” for service protecting it.


44 posted on 03/14/2023 10:25:14 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: george76

The needle just broke on my BS detector.


45 posted on 03/14/2023 10:28:57 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: george76
The ads “forgot that the primary market for Army recruiting is young men from traditional families, looking for a challenge,” Donnelly told the DCNF.

Oh, they didn't forget that at all, they were trying to force a change in it. And failed as they deserved to. Now we're stuck with an administrative layer in all services which does not consist of war-fighters but of social engineers. That's not going to helped much by a branding change.

Still, it does represent one change back to a tradition as old as the military itself throughout history - the recruiters are still lying... ;-)

46 posted on 03/14/2023 10:33:22 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: george76
“Parents and Army veterans who are ‘influencers’ are not recommending military service to the next generation, and recruiting numbers show the deterioration,”

Yep. That describes me.

47 posted on 03/14/2023 10:35:19 AM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Vindman isn’t American in any way, shape or form. He’s corrupt, cowardly Ukrainian scum. His loyalty was always to Ukraine, not the US.

Vindman and his equally treasonous brother should be sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight for their home country.


48 posted on 03/14/2023 10:43:44 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.- King Crimson)
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To: george76

Too late.


49 posted on 03/14/2023 10:56:01 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: george76

Ditch the idiots that put the Woke crap in place first


50 posted on 03/14/2023 11:17:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Jet Jaguar

maybe they should go back to killing people and breaking things and a recruitment

they’ll screw around till they have to bring back the draft...


51 posted on 03/14/2023 11:20:50 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: george76

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools. — Thucydides.


52 posted on 03/14/2023 11:28:40 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: george76; Angelino97; EvilCapitalist; Bon of Babble
“They just don’t perceive the Army as being in touch with the modern, everyday culture that they’re used to.”

If the idea is to win in combat that can never happen. Those in touch with the current dominate culture should be ineligible.

As this tragedy unfolds, I will remember the quote that, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”. A lot of good men are going to have to die in years to come to cover up the abandonment of the military as the ultimate meritocracy.

This tragedy of women in combat preceeding endorsement of LGBTQ+ behaviors provide another reason I now always council people to never enter the armed forces. In my wife’s and my families eight men volunteered and served in three generations, but never again.

53 posted on 03/14/2023 11:41:30 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: george76

All about advertising, nothing about reality. So very 21st century.


54 posted on 03/14/2023 11:46:42 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: george76

Too late. They showed what they are. The same Wokesters are in charge. I would strongly advise every straight White male to avoid the US Military like the plague. They will not have your back. In fact, they will discriminate against you and denigrate you and your culture at every turn - but they will be more than happy to use you as cannon fodder in the Neocons’ next idiotic war.

Let them send Leftists to go die next time.

Stay out.


55 posted on 03/14/2023 11:51:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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So they are just hiding it. No deal.

Exactly. The Tranny Training is still required and you still get to attend Captain's mast if you don't go along with the program.

56 posted on 03/14/2023 11:56:13 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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57 posted on 03/14/2023 11:58:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76
”Parents and Army veterans who are ‘influencers’ are not recommending military service to the next generation, and recruiting numbers show the deterioration,….”

This is 100% right. My son and I discussed this a year or so ago. We are 2 of 5 in a row who served in the Army going back to the Civil War. My grandson who is still very young will be strongly discouraged from going in.

58 posted on 03/14/2023 12:05:41 PM PDT by Radix (The perfect Tag Line is recognized by its conciseness and brev)
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To: george76

It’s crazy that a drill instructor has to ask the recruits their pronouns.


59 posted on 03/14/2023 12:08:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: Sirius Lee
The Army has come under fire for embracing perceived left-wing values..

Perceived? PERCEIVED?

Diversity, equity, inclusion embracing and adoring homosexuality, anti-white bigotry, CRT, abortion, sex change operations,
and promotion of lower standards for victim class personnel are absolutely left-wing values.

60 posted on 03/14/2023 12:15:04 PM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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