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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.

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To: Charles Martel

I wish Charles


61 posted on 01/11/2024 5:18:59 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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To: FLT-bird

Combat infantry units are still very white

Some Latinos and a few blacks often foreign born black


62 posted on 01/11/2024 5:22:19 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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To: wardaddy

A few years ago Boeing began basing management bonuses on their DEI scores. Competence and ability of their hires stopped being the criteria. Now that tree is bearing fruit.


63 posted on 01/11/2024 9:26:03 AM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: MinorityRepublican

> The White Boys will be sitting out the NeoCon’s next war.

> Let the BLM crowd fight the neocon wars

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

The NeoCon’s next war will be *here*. The next war will be against *you*. The BLM crowd started fighting it three years ago. If the American republic is to have a hope of surviving, people need to wake up and start fighting back *now*.

The next war will look an awful lot like “Red Dawn,” only the foreign mercenaries won’t be taking their orders from Moscow, they’ll be taking them from Washington DC, the Democratic Party, and the WEF.


64 posted on 01/11/2024 9:35:18 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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Yes

And this demographic shift will detrimentally affect performance and capability in everything

Not just by who’s doing the replacing but how they select the applicants


65 posted on 01/11/2024 3:45:25 PM 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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Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits

White Privilege.

66 posted on 01/11/2024 3:46:47 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Pelham

The fembot DEI response seriously as to study after study showing women crash much more civilian and military wisewhich they try to hide

Is excluded by:

“We’ll they are younger and less experienced”

Well shit that explains it then and I feel better already


67 posted on 01/11/2024 3:49:21 PM 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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I see on Twitter just now that we hit Houthi targets in Yemen with F-18 and ship launched missiles. Tomahawks according to the source.


68 posted on 01/11/2024 4:53:03 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1745594276396900845

U.S. and Britain launch strikes against targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen


69 posted on 01/11/2024 4:54:02 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1745595819535859771

First videos of the U.S. airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen


70 posted on 01/11/2024 4:55:24 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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