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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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.
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.
Yep, we’re going to have to clean out the domestic before we can effectively clean up the foreign.
Fixed it.
Our garbage ruling class in America has made the mistake of insulting those who built the country and now they can pack sand.
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
The reason Americans don’t want to fight for their country is because it isn’t their country any longer.
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.
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...
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.
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.....
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.
“Americans Don’t Want to Fight For Their Government Anymore”. There, fixed that.
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.
I’m not fighting to put men into women’s restrooms; it is that simple.
Otherwise, I don’t want to go into specifics.
Excellent article.
Here's a FR thread about it:
The Bud Light Military Don't fall for it: they still hate you.
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.
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.
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.
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