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Air Force Raises Age Limit for Recruits to 42
https://www.airandspaceforces.com ^ | Oct. 27, 2023 | By David Roza

Posted on 11/13/2023 9:36:37 PM PST by 11th_VA

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42 ? Maybe get a few Chaplins and cooks, but seriously 😳?
1 posted on 11/13/2023 9:36:37 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Are they finally willing to take white men?


2 posted on 11/13/2023 9:40:05 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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The Draft is coming, is my prediction. When?
Depends on which party wins the presidency in 2024.
If Biden or Kamala are there, probably before the end of 2025. They will pretend to conduct a “listening tour” after the inauguration, but it will be fait a compli.
For both men and women this time.


3 posted on 11/13/2023 9:42:11 PM PST by lee martell
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Draft ? So what if a recruit doesn’t buy into DEI ? That’s gonna be the ticket out for my 12 grandkids (mostly boys). Vigorously refuse to accept any premise to the training -


4 posted on 11/13/2023 9:46:07 PM PST by 11th_VA (<>< Good News: Barbarians at not at the gate; Bad News: They’re in the city)
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The people they are hiring, from females to the old of both sexes, and of course the sex oddballs, all of these are people who need and want, medical care, and they will drain the pension system with their injuries and problems.

Women injure easily doing military jobs and in training, and hiring people to start their 20 year career at age 42 for the military life is to be hiring people just entering the time when their bodies are already starting to break down.

The modern military personnel are going to drain the military budgets with nonfighting costs.


5 posted on 11/13/2023 9:47:08 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Good points - I was done at 37 - did my 20


6 posted on 11/13/2023 9:49:17 PM PST by 11th_VA (<>< Good News: Barbarians at not at the gate; Bad News: They’re in the city)
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Maybe get a few Chaplins and cooks, but seriously?

Why not have both?


7 posted on 11/13/2023 9:50:13 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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To: 11th_VA

Future Babylon Bee article—”Army raises recruitment age maximum for white men to 92”.

;-)


8 posted on 11/13/2023 9:50:48 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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ROTFL! Airman Walkers.


9 posted on 11/13/2023 9:56:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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Yes you can be 4F, cis, or non woke to get a pass on the draft.


10 posted on 11/13/2023 9:57:03 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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50 more recruits per year? Did I read that right? Only 50?


11 posted on 11/13/2023 9:57:44 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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I’m reminded of the scene in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” where Cohan tries to join the army to fight in WW1, is told he’s too old, and then gives a dance set to prove he’s in better shape than the younger recruits.


12 posted on 11/13/2023 10:01:35 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Keep electing Democrats that want all straight white men out of the military and you may as well raise the age to 100.


13 posted on 11/13/2023 10:05:58 PM PST by rellic
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They didn’t mention getting back those discharged for not getting the COVID shot.

“Updating the service’s body fat composition rules...”

“Updating” — the author couldn’t have said “Letting fatties in”?


14 posted on 11/13/2023 10:22:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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“Their unfamiliarity with military service and what it really entails means they often rely on the stereotypes and misperceptions they see in TV, movies, or the internet" -- AFRS commander Brig. Gen. Christopher Amrhein

Like this stereotype and misperception?


15 posted on 11/13/2023 10:25:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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“...expects to add about 50 more recruits per year
after lifting its maximum age limit
for initial accession from 39 years old to 42...”
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Raising the limit 3 years gains 50 recruits per year?
Are they that desperate?


16 posted on 11/13/2023 10:29:36 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Let me know when they got to 70. I’ll give it a try. I like planes.


17 posted on 11/13/2023 10:29:44 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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New meaning for the term “ roll a fatty.” By enlisting overweight people.


18 posted on 11/13/2023 10:30:56 PM PST by Redcitizen
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42 years? When I enlisted in 1981 I was 28, which was the oldest allowable at that time. Best decision I ever made. I had a job for 6 years USAF, and parlayed that into 24 more years in a related career with a military contractor.

In 30 years I got to see a lot of USA and parts of Asia and Europe, all on Uncle Sam’s tab........and I got to retire at 60.


19 posted on 11/13/2023 10:33:25 PM PST by jimtorr
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“You know what the call them in the Air Force? Airmen. Airmen! That sounds like something out of the funny books.”
20 posted on 11/13/2023 10:33:52 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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