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No Diploma? No problem! Navy Again Lowers Requirements as it Struggles to Meet Recruitment Goals
Military.com ^ | 1.27.2024

Posted on 01/27/2024 10:38:21 AM PST by Dr. Marten

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn't graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; nationalsecurity; navy; recruitment; usnavy; woke; wokemilitary
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To: Dr. Marten

Making the men wear high heels so they ‘can walk a mile in women’s shoes’ was just criminal.

That plus all the trans who are joining so the military will pay $100,000+ for their gender surgeries - funny how the enlistment time is pretty much equal to the signing up, starting hormones and therapy and then surgery, recovery and then their time is over and they can leave.


21 posted on 01/27/2024 10:57:05 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Yep -can you even imagine what it would be like to work under a woman who has been promoted because she checks a box?

Angry, bitter, man hating, determined to make everyone pay and promoting all her like minded friends while getting rid of the old white guys.


22 posted on 01/27/2024 10:59:06 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Dr. Marten

During the Vietnam war they took anyone and anybody. Why not now? Oh yeah. We lost.


23 posted on 01/27/2024 10:59:15 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: Dr. Marten

All they want is libtards so they have to continue to lower the standards


24 posted on 01/27/2024 11:00:21 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Dr. Marten

No hurry. The Navy can’t keep its ships in the water anyway.


25 posted on 01/27/2024 11:00:26 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: aklurker

They all know exactly why. They just cannot admit it in public.


26 posted on 01/27/2024 11:02:21 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DesertRhino

We can reprint all the manuals in Spanish.

But they probably can’t read Spanish, either.


27 posted on 01/27/2024 11:04:14 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: tophat9000
They going to start bring Illegals in to the miltary... watch

its a Tower of Babel. The US Military bringing in low IQ, uneducated, disparate illegals will ruin the US Military as much as bringing in wokesters and trannies.

28 posted on 01/27/2024 11:06:09 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Cutting edge tech with dull operators...what could go wrong?


29 posted on 01/27/2024 11:14:17 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Dr. Marten
Lowering standards for enrollment in the military.
Trying to get ammo manufacturers to stop providing ammo to civilians.

Others have suggested these are hints that the admin is preparing for us to go to war.

30 posted on 01/27/2024 11:22:05 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: rexthecat

“”””During the Vietnam war they took anyone and anybody. Why not now? Oh yeah. We lost.””””

We had the best-educated military we had ever had during that decade and they were awesome in battle, and unlike WWII they were overwhelmingly volunteers, not draftees.

The men fighting the war did not lose on the battlefield.


31 posted on 01/27/2024 11:22:37 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Dr. Marten

Turns out that the feral government overestimated by about 99% the numbers of trannies, homos, lesbos,
snowflakes, pansies and regular old sexual perverts willing to give their lives for their country.


32 posted on 01/27/2024 11:30:03 AM PST by Iron Munro (AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !!!)
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To: Dr. Marten

Zombies with sh*t-for-brains who will shoot their fellow Americans when ordered to do so. That’s all that matters for the US military.


33 posted on 01/27/2024 11:37:26 AM PST by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: Dr. Marten

There were a few on my ship who had a choice: jail or Navy.


34 posted on 01/27/2024 11:44:25 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Dr. Marten
In other news, Texas National Guard is hiring.

So is the US Border Patrol. Agents are bailing at a record pace. I hear they are so desperate they are offering a 30K signing bonus.

That's never happened before.

35 posted on 01/27/2024 11:56:12 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: aklurker
No red blooded American wants to serve under the commie regime.

Also the lives of our servicemen and women mean absolutely nothing to Traitor Joe and those who support his regime, so he has no qualms about sending the military to be killed, or leaving them behind.

36 posted on 01/27/2024 11:56:36 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Evil Personified: Traitor Joe & The Ho are building their campaign on the bodies of aborted babies.)
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To: ansel12
The men fighting the war did not lose on the battlefield.

I agree, I was there. We were an incredible fighting force. But, the politicians didn't let us win.

37 posted on 01/27/2024 11:56:41 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: rexthecat

“During the Vietnam war they took anyone and anybody.”

Actually, that didn’t happen in the Navy and Airforce. A lot of smart, capable and non criminals gladly joined the Navy or Air Force to avoid going to Nam as a soldier.

I spent the last 3 years of reserve duty at a big Navy Reserve center in the DC area as a recruiter.

My job was to cherry pick those wanting to join the Navy with diplomas or degrees.

The best candidates had passed the mental tests, police checks, medical checkups, and drivers’ license checks to avoid the losers.

I was Naval Security Group, and we often got first choice of the candidates. My other priorities were potential OCS candidates, Seabees, possible Naval Academy candidates.

We often had a backup bucket list of good candidates.

We/I looked for those with good math and English abilities, and tried to get the right “fit” for them and the Navy.

Men with Good math skills and electronic interests were priorities for my 3 years at the center.


38 posted on 01/27/2024 12:03:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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To: aklurker

New standard: Did you ever play with toy boats in the bathtub as a child?
Shows aptitude and interest.

Note: I used to have a plastic destroyer and a submarine. The sub could go under the tub water and would shoot a spring loaded torpedo you could aim against the trap door on the side of the ship and make it throw pieces into the air.


39 posted on 01/27/2024 12:09:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: rexthecat

“”””Post 23-During the Vietnam war they took anyone and anybody. Why not now? Oh yeah. We lost.””””

Strange thing to post if you knew better.


40 posted on 01/27/2024 12:11:31 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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