They should go retro.
Posted on 10/12/2023 2:55:00 PM PDT by george76
It turns out that propping up and embracing enlisted drag queens isn’t the answer to the U.S. Navy’s recruiting crisis after all.
On Tuesday, Navy Recruiting Command revealed that the branch had failed to meet its recruiting goals for the 2023 fiscal year. According to the Navy Times, the branch brought in “30,236 new active duty sailors in fiscal 2023, falling short of the 37,700 target number accessions for the year.” The Navy also missed its targets for new active-duty officers and reserve officers by 452 and 773 enlistees, respectively.
During her Senate confirmation hearing last month, Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti projected that the Navy would miss its FY23 recruiting targets by 7,000 sailors. According to Franchetti, that estimation is better than one given by the Navy at the beginning of FY23, which predicted a 13,000 shortfall in new recruits.
To combat the ongoing crisis, the Navy increased its maximum enlistment age from 39 to 41 in November “in an effort to allow more civilians to join its ranks.” Nearly a month later, it lowered its entrance test standards. And in June, the branch announced further plans to extend the work week for its recruiters from five days to six to address existing shortfalls but backed away from the policy after facing backlash from sailors.
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Among the probable factors contributing to the Navy’s recruiting dilemma is the waning health of America’s youth. A Pentagon study released last year, for example, found that 77 percent of young Americans “would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems.”
These concerns prompted the Navy to develop “The Future Sailor Preparatory Course,” a program launched in April aimed at helping “prospective recruits meet the Navy’s body-fat entry standards.” The initiative also focuses on “academic coursework and basic militarization,” according to the Navy Times.
Another likely factor hindering the Navy’s ability to bring in new talent is the U.S. military’s embrace of DEI, a neo-Marxist ideology that dismisses merit in favor of personal characteristics such as race. In May 2021, for instance, Navy leadership issued a memo outlining an action plan to promote DEI throughout the branch.
More recently, the Navy got caught employing an enlisted drag queen to help with its “Digital Ambassador” online recruiting program. After facing backlash from military veterans and congressional Republicans, the Navy confirmed in a letter to Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville last month that the program has been discontinued.
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley — the active-duty drag queen who partook in the “Digital Ambassador” program — has since been referred to the Navy for investigation for allegedly violating existing military protocols. According to the complaint filed by America First Legal, Kelley purportedly “engaged in partisan activity, behaved in ways that discredit the military, publicly criticized his command, and misused his uniform for personal gain” while serving in the Navy.
No wonder the transfags are afraid to fight the ragheads
They should go retro.
What straight man would volunteer to be stuck for months on a boat with a pack of perverted alphabet people?
When you have the pinnacle of the chain of command proclaiming that they want fewer white this and fewer male that and anybody but heterosexuals, then you get exactly what you are asking for. This is a 20% shortfall in a year. Somebody simply doesn't really care.
Be interesting to hear what, if any, effect this faggot tactic has on the USS Ford’s deployment near the Ham atrocities.
This drag queen hysteria / “thing” that was pushed down our throats by media, institutions and schools is fading away.
Just like the BLM “bend-a-knee” hysteria also ended.
These kind of fashion moments are short-lived.
Budlight started the end of it all.
Especially on an oiler named after a pederast, the USS Harvey Milk.
Guys don’t join this Navy they’ll use you like a woman
I don’t know if it’s fading away. The Left has pushed the boundary and gotten a lot of what they want.
It's worse than that. The leadership, from FJB on down pretend that homosexuality is normal, and the sailors below them are expected to pretend also with the threat of an immediate less than honorable discharge if they don't.
No kidding?
Fast forward, with teachers' unions and bureaucracy sucking in public dollars while uniform tests scores drop like rocks? The proposed solution is always "more gub'mint money."
And then the messages about drugs being "cool" and legalized?
And then the high-sugar, high-fat snack foods?
And then "gender" ideology being pushed like mad?
So we read, "...77 percent of young Americans 'would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems'.”
If 77 percent don't qualify and some portion of the remaining 23 percent resist the notion of enlisting to be commanded by a homosexual or cos-play enthusiast or transsexual, there is NO wonder that the military is missing its enlistment and retention goals.
Add to the picture that the idiot Democrats are calling conservatives potential "domestic terrorists," and the picture for voluntary enlistment and retention weakens even future.
The biggest impediment to recruiting is a booming jobs market. A little recession will cure it.
You mean “rum, buggery and the blash” isn’t a good recruiting theme?
That’s it. There are still a lot of good kids in my neck of suburban Florida that are interested in military service. I know many of them personally.
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