Posted on 11/10/2023 1:46:35 PM PST by Dr. Marten
A majority of American adults would not be willing to serve in the military were the U.S. to enter into a major war, recent polling has found, while public confidence in the armed forces appears to be waning.
The figures come as all branches of the armed forces have in recent years struggled to meet their recruitment targets, suggesting a growing apathy towards a career of military service. In 2023, the Army and Air Force fell short of their respective goals by around 10,000 recruits, while the Navy was under by 6,000. Since 1987, the number of active-duty personnel has fallen by 39 percent.
Experts say that such shortfalls are worrisome in an increasingly volatile global picture with American leadership unsure when it will next have to bring its full military force to bear.
"We have strike groups, aircraft carriers with a Marine Expeditionary Unit outside Israel now," Justin Henderson, a former transport operator for the U.S. Marines turned military recruiter, told Newsweek. "We're funding two wars, but we're actually boots on the ground, drones above Gaza. So we're already involved in there—and we're not sure what's happening in Taiwan. So this is a very tumultuous time for us, because we don't know what's going to happen."
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Probably because it isn’t their country anymore.
Why would you expect White Men to fight for a country that hates them.
I’ll be happy to, as long as the drooling CiC isn’t sending me into the Ukraine…
Let the elites and government workers send their kids.
No, I’d say that people don’t want to fight for this government.
Exactly, it’s ran by lunatics at almost every level.
FJB
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WOKENESS killed the military.
I would fight for my zip code. New Jersey and the USSA can suck it because both of them would love to see me dead.
THAT is why the left hates "Make America Great Again" so much.
Better to hunt down the morons who would put us into an unjust and unnecessary war.
If they don’t want to fight for Deep State, I don’t blame them.
“No, I’d say that people don’t want to fight for this government.”
Real men don’t want to fight for Modern Democrats.
regardless of race.
“War is the health of the State.”
Randolph Bourne
People will not fight for this government. There is no reason to fund the military. The military needs troops. And they are never going to get them. Those straight white males who the government loves to hate are not going to lay their lives down for a government who does not protect the rights of its people. The military has thrown away the concept of patriotism. So when the white soldiers take a knee. there will be no one left to man those ships or fly those planes.
Saigon Gets Longbinh 11/12 November 1972
The New York Times:
Nov 11-12, 1972 — US Army, Nov 11, turns over its Longbinh HQ base to the S Vietnamese ... and leave S Vietnam along with US mil personnel in other services ...
with no deferment
start with harvard
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