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Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits
Military.com ^ | January 10, 2024 | Steve Beynon

Posted on 01/10/2024 5:33:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Army's recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade, according to internal data reviewed by Military.com, a decline that accounts for much of the service's historic recruitment slump that has become the subject of increasing concern for Army leadership and Capitol Hill.

The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall shortfall of about 10,000 recruits for the Army in 2023 as the service missed its target of 65,000 new soldiers. That deficit is straining the force as it has ramped up its presence in the Pacific and Europe: A smaller Army is taking on a larger mission and training workload than during the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- leading to soldiers being away from home now more than ever.

A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant drop. No other demographic group has seen such a precipitous decline, though there have been ups and downs from year to year.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


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KEYWORDS: army; recruits
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1 posted on 01/10/2024 5:33:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to moronic war planners ..
2 posted on 01/10/2024 5:35:59 PM PST by tomkat
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To: MinorityRepublican

All according to plan.

How do you get an army to fire on its people?


3 posted on 01/10/2024 5:36:06 PM PST by Skywise
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why should white guys bear the burden when they are not appreciated, promoted as they should be, respected as they should be....

instead, they are treated as pariahs and racists and homophobic with white privilege....

4 posted on 01/10/2024 5:36:15 PM PST by cherry
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Yup, no worries. Lots of illegals to fill the ranks with.


5 posted on 01/10/2024 5:37:57 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Skywise
All according to plan.

How do you get an army to fire on its people?

My first thought as well.

6 posted on 01/10/2024 5:38:26 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: cherry

All according to plan and recruitment goals.

DEI don’tcha know.


7 posted on 01/10/2024 5:38:54 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The White Boys will be sitting out the NeoCon’s next war. Let’s see how your Tranny army does. I’m eager to see how Chicks with two moms, sexual deviants, furries, etc can fight.


8 posted on 01/10/2024 5:40:38 PM PST by FLT-bird
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The old military guys I know do not recommend that their family members join today’s army.

Small town and rural america is not welcome in today’s army nor are their mores and customs. Hard to say how the US army will perform without the traditional backbone of scotch-irish/german recruits —who come from these places.

Every other ethnic group in the USA produces fine warriors—but scotch-irish/german german tend to produce the most.


9 posted on 01/10/2024 5:41:52 PM PST by ckilmer (ui)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The US Army shifts to super high tech, new and unseen battle spaces.

While at the same time getting dumber.


10 posted on 01/10/2024 5:42:13 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MinorityRepublican

bkmk


11 posted on 01/10/2024 5:42:44 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: FLT-bird
The White Boys will be sitting out the NeoCon’s next war.

Guess again. The draft will be back by then.
12 posted on 01/10/2024 5:42:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Steve Beynon is a reporter for Military.com based out of the Washington D.C. area”
Speaks about the cultural change of the white conservative infrastructure souring on the military as the reason white recruitment is withering on the vine, but believes his prescient analysis is not biased by his coming from an area where the intensity of propaganda is very likely greater than it was in Stalinist Soviet Union ( heard about D.C. juries, Steve?)


13 posted on 01/10/2024 5:45:10 PM PST by sopo
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Dana Estrella (pictured) makes content to advise those considering signing up to think again

14 posted on 01/10/2024 5:45:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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White rage.


15 posted on 01/10/2024 5:45:20 PM PST by kabar
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To: ckilmer
The old military guys I know do not recommend that their family members join today’s army.

^ This! ^

16 posted on 01/10/2024 5:47:41 PM PST by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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Army needs more Lunchbag Lujan for the white boys to simp over.


17 posted on 01/10/2024 5:48:12 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: cherry; MinorityRepublican

An excellent article on the topic:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4195957/posts

The Bud Light Military


18 posted on 01/10/2024 5:49:40 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Saxon has begun to hate.


19 posted on 01/10/2024 5:49:42 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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The whole changing ( i.e. diminishing ) recruitment dynamics just seems so --- looking for the correct word --- QUEER.

Feminism had its problems. But the whole queer / cosplay / transsexual thing is "jumping the shark."

Obviously "white rage" and "white supremacy" aren't an issue when there aren't enough whites to blame.... So what could it be? Hmm....

20 posted on 01/10/2024 5:49:49 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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