Posted on 08/21/2023 10:04:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You can't make this stuff up. Leave the digitizing to people who understand binary.
Ah, the standard left wing approach: Standards? We don’t need no stinkin’ standards.
Plenty of dimwits made it in back in the ‘80s.
I'm less bothered by this than I would have been, because I realize it's not "our" military any more (except that we pay for it). If our enemy is making foolish decisions, so be it.
I love the old free USA, but those days are gone.
Soon we will be down to whether a person simply breathes or not.
I find it interesting that the Armed Forces will now never be able to discover the reason for the problem is issues such as noted above. 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. The uniforms have become costumes and the few true Americans who are deluded into enlisting will be cannon fodder for maintaining the DOD social agendas.
Recruits will be heavily tested on CRT and Wokeness.
Men embrace social agendas Any guy that behaves like a married man then deserts the woman to abortion or single motherhood is acting like someone who doesn’t care about taking care of anyone much less strangers whom the military traditionally protects and defends
The ASVAB is geared to 10th grade knowledge levels. Too tough for current HS graduates.
Does this mean that primates will be now qualify for OCS?!?
Yes. Until we get our clock cleaned, and we will, you will hear politicans of nearly all stripes saying how we are more prepared and better trained because of this.
Then, when the disaster happens, as it will, all those people will be nowhere to be found.
Success in war has many fathers, but bloody failure will be an orphan.
Wiki describes it: “Project 100,000, also known as McNamara’s 100,000, McNamara’s Folly, McNamara’s Morons, and McNamara’s Misfits,[1][2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.”
I was a Navy personnel clerk in the early 70s and knew several who entered under the program. These kids meant well but were not really up to it.
Think about that for a hot second. Just think of it.
They are discouraging the people they should have in the military, and spending money, time, and resources to specifically attract people who should not be serving in the military at all.
But you’re perhaps not aware how much we have dumbed down our education and young people since even the 80s?
There is a strong and direct correlation between lower entrance requirements and higher Article 15s and other UCMJ action. I was in the Army after Vietnam, I have seen it up close and personal.
I went to a military base bc this past week. What I saw standing on line was not the kind of social behavior I saw back on the 80s
People want to blame the Pentagon. People have deserted social norms in favor of No rules for dress, relationships, politeness, education
Women allow and enable men to live with no rules. Men go along with it.
The Pentagon is horrible but not far off from what culture is pushing.
Question 1: Do you have a pulse?
Question 2: Is your body temperature above 80F?
You’re In! Welcome to the New Army!
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