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Woke military-policies effect on recruitment overblown
FoxNews ^ | Michael Lee

Posted on 09/10/2023 7:37:56 AM PDT by FlipWilson

Claims that "woke" Pentagon policies are fueling a massive U.S. military recruiting crisis are overblown – and the criticisms may only be making things worse, one expert said.

Peter Feaver, a Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council during the Clinton and Bush administrations, said concerns over so-called "woke" policies have been blown out of proportion by politicians and critics. The main driver of the crisis are issues such as the current labor market and the shrinking pool of young Americans who are qualified to serve, he said. . .

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: militaryrecruiting; woke
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Relax everyone, a woke College professor has assured us that work policies aren’t to blame for the current recruiting crisis. While I am sure that woke policies alien aren’t to blame, they are a major component of the problem.
1 posted on 09/10/2023 7:37:56 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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So sick of autocorrect. Woke policies not work policies.


2 posted on 09/10/2023 7:38:59 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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3 posted on 09/10/2023 7:39:15 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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Go woke, no one joins.


4 posted on 09/10/2023 7:42:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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,,,and just why do ya suppos that pool is shrinking?

Some functionally illiterate? Innumerate? Ignorant, and intellectually stunted? Addicted or crazy? Failure to appreciate the Value of the country they inhabit? Foreign allegiances? Physically drastically unfit?


6 posted on 09/10/2023 7:50:43 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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Mind you, he is an expert and we know how deeply we can rely on these folks to get things right.


7 posted on 09/10/2023 7:52:03 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: William of Barsoom
and just why do ya suppos that pool is shrinking

It's the wokeness.

8 posted on 09/10/2023 7:52:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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There might be some truth to woke policies having less impact on recruiting than one might think.

As more and more recruits are not from military families, they don't know much about the military and military policies, woke or not. You could tell recruits anything and they'll believe it until their first drill instructor disabuses them of all their false notions.

Unless the illegal Jim Jones Jab mandates for the COVID-1984 Scamdemic are considered "woke". If so, woke absolutely destroys recruiting.

Retention on the other hand will be significantly impacted by woke policies. Military members correctly don't want to hear about honor and integrity and then be told that they need to accept the mentally ill assertions of peers with Gender Dysphoria and Autogynephilia, along with all the other woke nonsense.

Having woke nonsense come from appointees high up the chain of command selected by their ethnicity and genitalia only make it worse.

9 posted on 09/10/2023 7:58:23 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Yo Mikeee! Have you told the Pentagon of your sh*thouse findings yet? They’ll be glad to hear it! FOOL!!! ROTFL.


10 posted on 09/10/2023 8:00:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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Not only does woke military leadership affect recruitment. It affects retainment. Reenlistment is way down. Tell me what kind of soldiers you want to fight for America; fat faggots and gender deniers? Or hardened combat veterans?


11 posted on 09/10/2023 8:02:22 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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And the senior nco’s and officers who go along without challenging these policies become asshats who are driving skilled people out. Reactor crews and aviation maintenance and overhaul people don’t have to put up with tin dictators riding their butts about white privilege. So they don’t reenlist. nd 12 years of very technical experience and knowledge walks away. It’s not just the new recruit shortage, it’s the shrinking skills base. And then they work the remaining people harder and expect them just to suck up the abuse coming from nco’s that don’t have the skill set to do the job themselves.


12 posted on 09/10/2023 8:08:38 AM PDT by Waverunner
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It figures a Bush appointee wouldn’t mention America’s non-stop involvement in wars across the planet as a cause for not joining.


13 posted on 09/10/2023 8:10:02 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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“… and the criticisms may only be making things worse, one expert said.”

So, the expert claims all the faggotry tranny stuff doesn’t factor, but actually it is the criticism of this will hurt recruiting?

Ya have to go to school for a long time to get this stupid.


14 posted on 09/10/2023 8:14:23 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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Article is 100% horsehockey.


15 posted on 09/10/2023 8:15:14 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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This so-called “woke recruiting crisis” isn’t a crisis - its Americans waking-up.


16 posted on 09/10/2023 8:17:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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So, the recruiting problem reflects the fact that most younger Americans don’t want to risk getting sent off to die in proxy wars to make corrupt politicians like Biden and donor class rich?


17 posted on 09/10/2023 8:27:11 AM PDT by Kazan
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So says another woke idiot. Believe me, the woke policies are making a mess of the military. Substandard recruits and worn out equipment.


18 posted on 09/10/2023 8:35:58 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: FlipWilson

George Orwell:

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”


19 posted on 09/10/2023 8:36:24 AM PDT by Iron Munro (An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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It’s revealing that formerly anti-military leftist professors are worried about the US military having enough recruits.

They have plans for the military at home and abroad, and they need it fully staffed.


20 posted on 09/10/2023 8:37:30 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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