Posted on 04/03/2023 11:43:14 AM PDT by JonPreston
A Pentagon study revealed that 77 percent of young Americans do not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, drug use, or mental or physical problems.
“When considering youth disqualified for one reason alone, the most prevalent disqualification rates are overweight (11 percent), drug and alcohol abuse (8 percent), and medical/physical health (7 percent),” the Pentagon’s 2020 Qualified Military Available Study of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 read.
The concern over the shrinking pool of potential recruits has grown in recent years. Maj. Charlie Dietz, a Department of Defense spokesman, stated that the study confirmed the challenges of recruiting new military members.
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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life...
They’ll admit them anyway. Considering that not even demented trans-freaks are deferred, who else wouldn’t “qualify?”
Hey, hey, all you vets out there... WE’RE ELITE! Always knew it. :)
Overweight only 11%? I guess lard ass Miley lowered standards. I see all kinds of lazy ass fat slobs - young, old and in between. Gluttony is a deadly sin. It leads to sloth and a lot worse.
Dean Wormer? Is that you??
Have never seen such a young boy get up from the floor so slowly. Sad.
Ironically, you’d have to be mentally ill or on drugs to join today’s military.
Thank a teacher.
Why not draft the invaders that cross our borders? Promise them citizenship after 6 years of service.
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Even if they weren’t all those things they still wouldn’t join. When you have a declining empire that’s likely to impulsively strike back against those attempting to challenge it you are putting yourself in harm’s way for no good reason. Besides most kids today are lazy spoiled pabby boys.
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They will start to admit them, yes.
But they won’t last. They’ll get chaptered out and that will be it.
One thing that I’ve never seen talked about though, especially with regards to the 77% of young Americans, is the fact that some of them will try. Some of them will get in. Some of them will make it through training, somehow.
Then some of them will get out or be forced out and the snakes in the VA will give them ‘tax free’ disability benefits FOR LIFE. And depending on the sob story, someone can get close to $3000 a month, tax free, for life if they’re convincing enough.
Right now, I can point to a guy that travels the country and gives seminars to veterans on, basically, how to lie to the VA counselors and get more money.
So, you get a guy that claims to have PTSD, VA approves it, he gets around $2800-3200 a month, tax free. But shoots all the guns he wants, hunts, goes to every event that has fireworks, and laughs as you and I pay for his F250 SuperDuty and his mortgage.
“77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs and more to join military, Pentagon study finds”
Fixed it- 77% of military leaders are too fat, mentally ill, corrupt, and hate their country for patriotic Americans to joint the military.
And as for being overweight, Uncle Sam has a program for that.
We’ve got millions of fit, military-aged males crossing the border every year. What’s the problem?
Yep, a lot of Freepers are falling for “the all of a sudden to fat” meme. This is CYA for th real reason for bad recruiting, the DOD went WOKE now now red blooded American kid wants to join.
We’ve got millions of fit, military-aged pro Amrican males tht will not join a woke military. Dont believe this lie about too fat etc.
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