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U.S. Navy Misses Enlisted Recruitment Target by 20 Percent
https://maritime-executive.com ^ | PUBLISHED OCT 12, 2023

Posted on 11/17/2023 11:32:05 PM PST by 11th_VA

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To: 11th_VA

A draft is inevitable.


41 posted on 11/18/2023 4:38:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

I was in NAVAIR around 2012 and there was a pinning ceremony for an 0-4 to 0-5. His “partner” pinned him and gave him a kiss in the atrium. I was on the 2nd or 3rd floor looking down and remember saying “that’s fucking sick” and walked away... as did a lot of other disgusted people.


42 posted on 11/18/2023 4:45:07 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: dfwgator

A more likely scenario is that the U.S. military will be permanently downsized.


43 posted on 11/18/2023 4:54:07 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: 11th_VA

Time to double down.

Maybe if they sign up tranny Dylan Mulvaney as their spokes-thingy they can get a few more perverts to enlist.


44 posted on 11/18/2023 5:05:59 AM PST by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An Evil Man Will Burn His Own Nation To The Ground To Rule Over The Ashes. )
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To: 11th_VA

Renaming the bases and going woke will keep my family from fighting for this Government for the foreseeable future. Sad. Our military history goes back to the revolution. I hope we are involved in the second Revolutionary War.


45 posted on 11/18/2023 5:22:14 AM PST by ohioman (ncestorts.)
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To: 11th_VA
--- "Wowzer 20% shortfall - no way to sugarcoat that number …"

The M A R K E T I N G of the woke began years ago, and it is bearing "fruit." (Pardon the pun.) Problem: there isn't enough fruit.

A wee retrospective.

The Army Is Now Begging Unvaccinated Soldiers To Return A Free Republic thread of 17 November 2023 with more than 70 comments

U.S. Navy Misses Enlisted Recruitment Target by 20 Percent Free Republic thread of 18 November 2023 with more than 40 comments

U.S. Army struggles to find recruits its needs to win fight of future CNBC, 26 October 2023

Is the military too 'woke' to recruit? Military Times, 13 October 2023

After missing goal again, Army announces sweeping recruiting reforms Army Times, 3 October 2023

Army revamps recruiting in face of enlistment shortfalls The Hill, 3 October 2023

Future of all-volunteer Army in peril as Gen Z shuns military service Washington Examiner, 16 May 2023

Vice Chiefs Talk Recruiting Shortfalls, Readiness Issues defense.gov website, 20 April, 2023

The President's Inbox Recap: The U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis Council on Foreign Relations, 16 January 2023

Fears of openly gay troops were vastly overblown: Pentagon report 28 September 2022

Change to policy allows transgender Soldiers to serve openly army.mil, 24 June 2021

LGBTQ in the Military: A Brief History, Current Policies and Safety Military One, 19 March 2021

Problem for the woke-sters. This coming year is a presidential election year. Trying to install a draft is a political nightmare, given the "official" stance that the US is a peaceful nation < s a r c >.
46 posted on 11/18/2023 5:35:08 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: 11th_VA

Time to bring back the Village People.

I guess there are more queer and trans youngsters than I thought. I would have thought the percentage would have been higher. Allowing what has been done to our first class military for political purposes over the years should be a capital offense.


47 posted on 11/18/2023 5:41:44 AM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: 11th_VA
The weakening of the US Military is part of The Plan.

The objective of Biden's puppet masters is the destruction of the USA. The US Military, always a bastion of patriotism, conservative voting, integrity, and honor, was targeted by them in a stroke of evil genius.

The weakening of the Military has left the USA and the American People dangerously vulnerable to America's enemies. This was part of The Plan.

The most dangerous people in America are the useful idiots who are too stupid, too deep in denial, or too easily manipulated by America's enemies to understand and admit this. They are the enablers of the enemies of the USA.

48 posted on 11/18/2023 5:52:44 AM PST by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: RedMonqey

Someone needs to ask Nimarata who is going to fight her wars for her.


49 posted on 11/18/2023 5:53:11 AM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: 11th_VA

Did someone leave a window open? Is that a little draft I feel?


50 posted on 11/18/2023 5:54:18 AM PST by PAR35
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To: 11th_VA

Coast Guard is falling short, as well.


51 posted on 11/18/2023 5:55:09 AM PST by PAR35
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To: rlmorel
I too served during the Carter Years, and I detest him to this day.

So did I...76-84. I was lucky, boy was I lucky! I was in a composite ADA battery, Towed Vulcan and Chaparral. Our mission was short range air base defense, one of the few units that barred women. I served on two air bases during my 4+ years in Germany: Hahn and Spangdahlem. A third battery was located at Bitburg.

When I was on Battalion Staff, the Old Man's secretary ordered birthday cakes from a nearby bakery. The cakes were anatomically correct renditions of buxom women, with a strategically placed cherry.

52 posted on 11/18/2023 5:56:11 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: dfwgator
A draft is inevitable.

You may be right, and the children of elites and the wealthy will find new ways to avoid/evade the draft, just as they have since the War of Northern Aggression.

Doesn't anyone study history anymore?

53 posted on 11/18/2023 5:59:31 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: 11th_VA

54 posted on 11/18/2023 5:59:33 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: 11th_VA

The birth dearth that started in 2008 will effect both military and college recruitment even harder beginning in 2026 with a smaller number of 18 year olds. Watch for more small colleges closing and for recruitment to plummet further. I don’t see how we can avoid a draft in the next decade.


55 posted on 11/18/2023 5:59:44 AM PST by Betty Jane
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To: central_va

yes, the new promotion of sodomy in the Navy/military in general.... is not going to attract more than 5% of the potential recruits

if that.

(spoken as a person who does not object to private consensual conduct.. but the administration has no business PROMOTING and ENABLING and ADVERTISING this sort of thing and especially not in the Services, for Heaven’s sake! It is nothing less than an obvious scheme to weaken USA defenses.


56 posted on 11/18/2023 6:01:48 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Angelino97

It’s all intentional destruction of once-honored institutions.

Refuse to literally bake that cake, or to participate-celebrate, and where’s the redress for the punishment? Certainly not anywhere up the chain of command that is filled with the reprobates and/or complete cowards who have ‘integrated’ these very perversions in the first place.

‘Re-dress’ has been changed into ‘cross dress’, and anyone crossing the PTB will be dealt with accordingly.

Zero tolerance for sexual harassment — it’s been a stern message coming from the very brass who have created the exceedingly hostile work environment of systemic sexual harassment.

Those who went along with the experimental jab mandate telegraphed to the PTB that they could be further used and abused. Purged were the ‘rogue’ characters who would refuse unlawful orders.

These days the recruitment pool is down to those who know it’s a snake, but will pick it up anyway.


57 posted on 11/18/2023 6:06:24 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

NOT my dad, father in law, mine or my daughter’s navy. Military service has been in our family since the revolution. My grandkid was probably the last one. I wouldn’t suggest it to anyone these days. Sad.

🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍


58 posted on 11/18/2023 6:11:58 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: 11th_VA

The elites want their war, and they want white straight men and women to do it to get killed.


59 posted on 11/18/2023 6:12:58 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: rlmorel

That one...and the picture of the USS Cole with a hole in the hull. THAT should never have happened.

Signed,
Former sailor.


60 posted on 11/18/2023 6:24:49 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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