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Americans Don't Want to Fight For Their Country Anymore
Newsweek ^ | 11.10.2023 | Aleks Phillips

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draft; military; militaryservice; selectiveservice; war
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To: Dr. Marten
This guy writes with brass knuckles just what is going on here.

The Bud Light Military

About the only thing he didn't address is the DOD's outrageous mandatory requirement to take the experimental mRNA "vaccines" which drove out thousands and turned the rest into ticking time bombs.

The evil and stupidity on display in the military and our government is now monumental.

81 posted on 11/10/2023 3:05:22 PM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Dr. Marten

For the last 3 years, I’ve been told I’m too racist, extremist and conservative for their needs. I don’t see that changing now that the S is about to HTF. My only hope is that theyl earned enough during drag queen story hour to triage sucking chest wounds.

Makes me ashamed to admit I volunteered all those years ago for what passes as this country now.


82 posted on 11/10/2023 3:06:38 PM PST by txeagle
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To: bk1000

Yep, we’re going to have to clean out the domestic before we can effectively clean up the foreign.


83 posted on 11/10/2023 3:07:43 PM PST by txeagle
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To: Dr. Marten
Americans Don't Want to FightLose For Their Country Anymore

Fixed it.

84 posted on 11/10/2023 3:09:16 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: Dr. Marten

Our garbage ruling class in America has made the mistake of insulting those who built the country and now they can pack sand.


85 posted on 11/10/2023 3:12:37 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (With the Federal DOJ illegally hounding President Trump he has become the 1st true black president)
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To: Dr. Marten

Americans are willing to fight for out country, just not the Biden administration.

Kicked out people who wouldn’t take Covid
Encourages transgenders
Promotes public displays of gay pride
EDI taught
Force fed propaganda

This is a nation of warriors or we were before the invasion of 3rd worlders


86 posted on 11/10/2023 3:23:31 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: Dr. Marten

The reason Americans don’t want to fight for their country is because it isn’t their country any longer.


87 posted on 11/10/2023 3:26:37 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: TheWriterTX

I wouldn’t submit my life to the will of an idiot “commander in chief” who in every other utterance demands I relinquish prized items from my federally licensed gun collection.(Among many other reasons.) KMA.


88 posted on 11/10/2023 3:27:29 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Dr. Marten

With MIVs (Migrant Invader Vermin) constituting 20-30 percent of the Nation’s population, plus the communist-controlled education system having generate mindless communist serfs for the past 5 decades, we have attained the status of the Roman empire as it spiraled into its decline and fall...


89 posted on 11/10/2023 3:32:00 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Dr. Marten

Our white man hating, homo loving, selfie obssessed country as it is now? Nope.

Other peoples countries? Nope.

Private business interests? Nope.

Try to guilt shame people to join up and die? Nope.

I will fight if my area gets invaded by hostile forces.


90 posted on 11/10/2023 3:44:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dr. Marten
... because we don't know what's going to happen.

We have never known what is going to happen. Never.

And maybe the armed forces' attention to woke-ism, DEI, and trans politics is turning many would-be enlistees away. Just maybe.....

91 posted on 11/10/2023 3:44:39 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Reason why is simple—Its not my country anymore. Need to change it back or break the red from the blue states and form a new country. Looks like we need a Civil War (The Electric Boogaloo), So at least a fragment of America will be saved.


92 posted on 11/10/2023 3:48:54 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Dr. Marten

“Americans Don’t Want to Fight For Their Government Anymore”. There, fixed that.


93 posted on 11/10/2023 3:57:04 PM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: Dr. Marten

This country feels more like an occupied country run by a foreign power. The tyrannical globalists are in power now.
It’s probably a lot like it was living in Vichy France.


94 posted on 11/10/2023 4:11:54 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: Dr. Marten

I’m not fighting to put men into women’s restrooms; it is that simple.

Otherwise, I don’t want to go into specifics.


95 posted on 11/10/2023 4:13:05 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Gritty
This guy writes with brass knuckles just what is going on here.

Excellent article.

Here's a FR thread about it:

The Bud Light Military Don't fall for it: they still hate you.

96 posted on 11/10/2023 4:13:20 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: Dr. Marten
Journalists should send their kids off to work under sexual weirdos and people not competent6 to issue orders. When they come home broken they can move to San Franciso and poop on the streets.
97 posted on 11/10/2023 4:13:48 PM PST by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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To: Dr. Marten
I used to actively encourage high-school and college kids that I came into contact with to go into the military for at least one enlistment to gain discipline, experience, and the possibility of some sort of trade training.

Now, I go out of my way to discourage anyone who asks my opinion about joining one of the Services, particularly white males, going into great detail about the contempt, mental and emotional abuse, and hatred they will be exposed to by their supposed leaders.

98 posted on 11/10/2023 4:31:22 PM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: Dr. Marten

If I was 30-35 years younger, I’d reup.

It’s just like the 60’s and a bunch of chicken shits refusing to serve when I joined last time...I’d do it again if I could.


99 posted on 11/10/2023 4:37:18 PM PST by montanajoe ( )
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To: Dr. Marten

That’s because our country is already in the midst of an insurrection by communists and anti-Americans.

I will happily fight for the Republic and the Constitution on which it stands. But I think the “American” government would frown on that and actively try to stop me.


100 posted on 11/10/2023 4:38:25 PM PST by Skywise
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