Posted on 05/18/2024 6:25:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
While the majority of new recruits report having someone in the family who served, military families are becoming increasingly reluctant to recommend service to their loved ones.
Blue Star Families has been tracking active-duty families’ likelihood of recommending service to a young family member or someone in their network since 2016. Only 32% of families said they would recommend their sons and daughters to go into the military, down from 55% in 2016.
On the other end of the spectrum, only 15% of families said they would not recommend service to their loved ones in 2016. That number more than doubled to 31% in 2023.
“One of the major takeaways this year is that we continue to see a declining likelihood to recommend military service among our military families,” Jessica Strong, the senior director of applied research, told Federal News Network. “We know the majority of new recruits have some ties to the military. They have a parent, or a grandparent, or relative who served, so they come from families who have a tradition of military service. We know that military families are the answer to that recruiting crisis.”
More than 7,000 active-duty service members, military spouses, veterans, veteran spouses, National Guard and reserve families responded to the survey which was conducted online from May 24 to July 17.
Most survey respondents live and work at military installations across the United States, including Fort Liberty in North Carolina, Fort Cavazos in Texas and Fort Huachuca in Arizona. But they also live in communities that don’t have a military installation or large military presence. And some of them are stationed overseas at bases in Japan, South Korea, Germany and Italy, as well as embassies across the world.
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I know a military family (both spouses in) and they tell their sons do NOT enlist in these times.
I’m retired Zoomie, my son is a former Marine.
We both tell young folks to stay the hell away from the military.
My youngest son enlisted in the Navy and is training to be air traffic control, but he did so knowing what he would be getting into.
As a retired military veteran I didn’t recommend service for my son which ended a long family service to the country which hurt. However, what I see on the military installations today and read in the different periodicals I can no longer say the military is a great place to begin a career. Wokeness has taken over along with once was military standards. The ones I see would be unfit during my time.
The military has been corrupted and infected with the DEI virus.
The problems the military has now with recruitment will only get worse—with the resulting loss of military capability.
I remember a few years ago there was a joke going around about when he came in the military being queer was forbidden, then it became don’t ask, and lately it’s acceptable. But the guy’s getting out before being gay becomes mandatory. Which seems to be where we’re headed.
It's different now. You can still join the military because it will provide you with a valuable skill.
None of that patriotic BS.
We might be okay if we adapt to drone warfare.
As a retired military I advise potential recruits to carefully consider that their commanding officer may be a guy wearing a dress with a husband and that their chief of staff could be a traitor like Mark Milley.
You may want to serve as your fathers and grandfathers did, but all the meaningful decisions are going to be made by the deviants.
We fought in a lot of stupid wars in the past.
I would not hesitate to fight in WWII, that war was absolutely necessary.
But WWI was stupid. That was Europe's mess. Wilson made a huge mistake to get America involved.
I am a retired USAF officer and my daughter may well be the last of a long line when she got out as a USAF Capt when thing started going to crap during Obama’s term.
Even without the Woke Charlie Foxtrot it’s not a good time to enlist. I joined in 1972 and every promotion I ever got right up through E8 I was competing with Combat Veterans, appearing before boards sat on by Combat Vets. You have to really work to beat out peers with Combat experience. As soon as I returned from Desert Storm I was selected to attend the Sgt Major Academy.
If your son is a fag tranny or just weird it’s a great time to get a bonus
The basic problem with joining the military has always been that service is subject to political decisions. But then I am with Washington, and I would not have it any other way. Hopefully people would have the choices of resigning or never enlisting.
USMC vet here, I told my son and daughter to stay FAR FAR away from military service (ended a 6 generation tradition in my family) unless they wanted to serve with and be ordered by AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRES, FAGS, LESBIENS, FREAKS, and WEIDOS.
Neither will serve under UNCLE FAGGOT!
Pleased that you have the proper political correctness and understand the proper pronouns.
Semper Fi
I wasn’t asked questioned for this poll, but I approve the overall gist of it. It’s exactly what I’ve done, steer both my boys away from the service.
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