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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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To: Billthedrill

plus they will be passed over for promotions because the military will only promote girls, blacks, gays and trans now


41 posted on 01/10/2024 6:22:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MinorityRepublican

Clueless. They just can’t face that they have destroyed the patriotic/military ethos. When your government spends billions to convince you that you and your nation are evil white supremacists, why would they even expect you to just take it and then put your life on the line for them.


42 posted on 01/10/2024 6:24:54 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dem whites be hidin’ like their boss, Austin.


43 posted on 01/10/2024 6:33:06 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Whites are not worthy, America today is not the flag or government men fought for.


44 posted on 01/10/2024 6:36:31 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

....no worries, the commies don’t need to beat us in battle, they’ve already beat us by buying our Senators (Mitchell) and Representatives (Swalwell).....


45 posted on 01/10/2024 6:40:43 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: MinorityRepublican
This should be interesting.

When I was in the Army in the 80's and 90's, the bulk of the combat occupations were filled by white men, with the minorities choosing to hide out in the support jobs like cooks and truck drivers.

Guess all those military-aged males from Latin America and the Middle-East will have to be the trigger-pullers. Oh wait...

46 posted on 01/10/2024 6:48:58 PM PST by thescourged1 (Who put this tagline here?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Do many of the young white people around you seem to be in shape for military service?

Authors in NY Post:


More than half (56%) of 18- to 25-year-olds are overweight or obese, according to Johns Hopkins researchers — meaning they can’t enlist.

Meanwhile, a record number of young people have been diagnosed with mental health disorders.
Generational researcher and psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge says that Gen Z “stands out for their high levels of pessimism” about the country.

In her book Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, Twenge notes that Zoomers are the generation most likely to favor socialism over capitalism, and that 4 in 10 say the Founding Fathers are better described as villains than heroes.”

https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/military-faces-recruitment-crisis-as-unpatriotic-gen-z-fails-to-join-up/


47 posted on 01/10/2024 6:52:27 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: MinorityRepublican
When the globalists in government spit at the history of military families and rename bases that honored their ancestors, yeah, the smart white male walks away.

On a related note:

A-10 Warthogs Have Refueled from a Civilian Tanker:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4209327/posts

We're one step closer to a mercenary military.

48 posted on 01/10/2024 7:00:28 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MinorityRepublican

This guy is ether a total idiot or bought off. I would NEVER go into the service today.


49 posted on 01/10/2024 7:00:48 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m retired Navy. NavAir to be specific. The undermining of our military by what we today call The Woke began many years ago. During the Clinton years, I attended a mandatory lecture where the subject was competition is bad. And, sexuality is none of our business.
Nearly everyone in the lecture hall revolted at the concept. Nearly. Not all. This fact did not deter the proponents of this nonsense.
As the years went on more such nonsense was introduced to our troops. They were specifically targeting JO’s. As time passed, many longstanding criteria for many specialties were slowly watered down. Frog boil concept. All in the name of Equity and Diversity.
This watering down accelerated greatly during the Hussein administration. The Great Purge of dedicated patriots in the senior officer ranks and the forced introduction of females into combat ranks.
Especially, in elite units. Anyone who raised concerns was the subject of ridicule and subsequently dismissed.
Then came the open embrace of homosexuality and lesbianism in the ranks. Quickly followed by so-called Transgenders.
The Woke dominate the senior ranks. Obama saw to this via his Great Purge.
President Trump was too preoccupied with assaults upon his presidency 24/7/365 by the Dems and RINO stealth co-conspirators to tackle this issue.
Dementia Joe is a figurehead for the Obama Agenda. Only a fool would volunteer to serve such an abomination of our military’s actual mission.


50 posted on 01/10/2024 7:45:52 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: cherry
True. The US military once had a way of transcending racial issues but the Left worked hard to destroy that. For decades, white Southerners maintained a strong tradition of military service, especially in the US Army. Robert E. Lee and other Southern Civil War military heroes were honored in the Army in small ways like the names of forts and Confederate monuments, but white Southerners respected and obeyed authority figures in the form of Black enlisted men, NCOs, and officers who were good at their jobs.

A retired Black NCO whom my brothers knew and worked with in the 80s commented that when he had race and discipline issues in the military, it was with White Northerners, not White Southerners. Indeed, in civilian life in the South, Black veterans tended to be respected for their service and ability. An older Southern white whom I knew in that era did not like or trust Blacks as a group but was unstinting and sincere in his praise of a retired Black Army Major who had been his boss at IBM.

51 posted on 01/10/2024 7:47:29 PM PST by Rockingham (`)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How many times do you have to tell people “We hate you and don’t want your kind in our Army” before they get the message?


52 posted on 01/10/2024 7:48:20 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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To: ckilmer

“nor are their mores and customs” ... nor their patriotism and MAGA beliefs.


53 posted on 01/10/2024 7:49:09 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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To: MinorityRepublican

It scares the shit out of them.
Everyone knows why.


54 posted on 01/10/2024 8:00:16 PM PST by DeWalt (Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It scares the shit out of them.
Everyone knows why.


55 posted on 01/10/2024 8:00:17 PM PST by DeWalt (Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.)
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To: Rockingham
The US military once had a way of transcending racial issues but the Left worked hard to destroy that.

Divide and conquer. If we're all Americans, the Left would be out of power. They didn't want that.

56 posted on 01/10/2024 8:04:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: tomkat

Ever since Obama purged the military, whites are persona-non-grata

Let the BLM crowd fight neocon wars


57 posted on 01/10/2024 9:20:05 PM PST by PGR88
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To: yuleeyahoo

Gunga Din

You may talk o’ gin and beer
When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere,
An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it;
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ‘im that’s got it.
Now in Injia’s sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin’ of ‘Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them blackfaced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
He was “Din! Din! Din!
You limpin’ lump o’ brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippery ~hitherao~!
Water, get it! ~Panee lao~! [Bring water swiftly.]
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din.”

The uniform ‘e wore
Was nothin’ much before,
An’ rather less than ‘arf o’ that be’ind,
For a piece o’ twisty rag
An’ a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment ‘e could find.
When the sweatin’ troop-train lay
In a sidin’ through the day,
Where the ‘eat would make your bloomin’ eyebrows crawl,
We shouted “Harry By!” [Mr. Atkins’s equivalent for “O brother.”]
Till our throats were bricky-dry,
Then we wopped ‘im ‘cause ‘e couldn’t serve us all.
It was “Din! Din! Din!
You ‘eathen, where the mischief ‘ave you been?
You put some ~juldee~ in it [Be quick.]
Or I’ll ~marrow~ you this minute [Hit you.]
If you don’t fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!”

‘E would dot an’ carry one
Till the longest day was done;
An’ ‘e didn’t seem to know the use o’ fear.
If we charged or broke or cut,
You could bet your bloomin’ nut,
‘E’d be waitin’ fifty paces right flank rear.
With ‘is ~mussick~ on ‘is back, [Water-skin.]
‘E would skip with our attack,
An’ watch us till the bugles made “Retire”,
An’ for all ‘is dirty ‘ide
‘E was white, clear white, inside
When ‘e went to tend the wounded under fire!
It was “Din! Din! Din!”
With the bullets kickin’ dust-spots on the green.
When the cartridges ran out,
You could hear the front-files shout,
“Hi! ammunition-mules an’ Gunga Din!”

I shan’t forgit the night
When I dropped be’ind the fight
With a bullet where my belt-plate should ‘a’ been.
I was chokin’ mad with thirst,
An’ the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin’, gruntin’ Gunga Din.
‘E lifted up my ‘ead,
An’ he plugged me where I bled,
An’ ‘e guv me ‘arf-a-pint o’ water-green:
It was crawlin’ and it stunk,
But of all the drinks I’ve drunk,
I’m gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.
It was “Din! Din! Din!
‘Ere’s a beggar with a bullet through ‘is spleen;
‘E’s chawin’ up the ground,
An’ ‘e’s kickin’ all around:
For Gawd’s sake git the water, Gunga Din!”

‘E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An’ a bullet come an’ drilled the beggar clean.
‘E put me safe inside,
An’ just before ‘e died,
“I ‘ope you liked your drink”, sez Gunga Din.
So I’ll meet ‘im later on
At the place where ‘e is gone —
Where it’s always double drill and no canteen;
‘E’ll be squattin’ on the coals
Givin’ drink to poor damned souls,
An’ I’ll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
Yes, Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I’ve belted you and flayed you,
By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Rudyard Kipling


58 posted on 01/10/2024 11:54:01 PM PST by kabar
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To: MinorityRepublican

Take your DEI and shove it up your ass.


59 posted on 01/11/2024 5:13:00 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The degradation of white demographics will be felt everywhere in productivity and capability

Look how DEI has affected piloting

United hires 80% non white male recruits now for their pilot school

Wonder how that’ll go?

Some beat the logical stats odds that 80% has same merit as the white men?

Older white boomers and early X to pair them up with ain’t gonna fly forever

This pattern will happen all facets of the workforce


60 posted on 01/11/2024 5:18:08 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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