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No Diploma? No problem! Navy Again Lowers Requirements as it Struggles to Meet Recruitment Goals
Military.com ^ | 1.27.2024

Posted on 01/27/2024 10:38:21 AM PST by Dr. Marten

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn't graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; nationalsecurity; navy; recruitment; usnavy; woke; wokemilitary
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Citizens don't want to participate in the woke military, fighting for globalists.

In other news, Texas National Guard is hiring.

1 posted on 01/27/2024 10:38:21 AM PST by Dr. Marten
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To: Dr. Marten

Coincidentally, 10 million people without diplomas just crossed the border after Biden gained power.


2 posted on 01/27/2024 10:40:30 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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Trouble is we have people in leadership that don’t have a clue why recruitment is so abysmal. We all know why: No red blooded American wants to serve under the commie regime. Go woke, go broke..


3 posted on 01/27/2024 10:41:01 AM PST by aklurker
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To: Dr. Marten

Mkst kids today don’t have the same kind of patriotism instilled in them as all of us did.

We all believed the Kennedy statement of “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”


4 posted on 01/27/2024 10:41:56 AM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Dr. Marten

“Citizens don’t want to participate in the woke military,...”

And I would venture that almost none of the military age men crossing our unprotected border have a high school education.

See, fixed our recruitment problem.

And none of those said border crossers have any regard or connection to the actual citizens of the USA, or our Constitution. They also come from countries ruled with little care about killing their own people.

The Marxists are solving their two-fold problems.


5 posted on 01/27/2024 10:43:49 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Dr. Marten

I got in the Air Force with no diploma or GED back in 71.
I also aced three of the four ASVAB tests. Might have had something to do with it.


6 posted on 01/27/2024 10:43:57 AM PST by dagunk
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To: Dr. Marten

I don’t allow anyone without a GED or high school to work at my plant. To dangerous.

Yet the Navy is going to let them on multibillion dollar ships? Good luck


7 posted on 01/27/2024 10:43:59 AM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: Dr. Marten

They going to start bring Illegals in to the miltary... watch


8 posted on 01/27/2024 10:44:21 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: Preachin'

Also we now have the “time out” generation as the bulk of our military age men and women and those who can’t tell the difference.


9 posted on 01/27/2024 10:44:38 AM PST by aklurker
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To: Dr. Marten

The impact on our readiness will be huge.


10 posted on 01/27/2024 10:44:52 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Dr. Marten

Diplomas Aweigh my boys!


11 posted on 01/27/2024 10:45:38 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
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Take that, Putin!!!! We don’t need no soldiers who can read* because WE ARE AMERICA, and therefore INVINCIBLE!

*not that High School grads can read


12 posted on 01/27/2024 10:46:33 AM 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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To: Dr. Marten; All

BUMP


13 posted on 01/27/2024 10:47:08 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Larry Lucido; Kenny Bania; PROCON; gundog

24 subs and I become a Sub Captain!!!

(too many exclamation points!!!)

The Clark Bar wouldn’t come out!!!


14 posted on 01/27/2024 10:48:42 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Dr. Marten

The Navy gave my son hell when he was trying to enlist. Admittedly, he had a lot of trouble when he was under 18. He got involved in drugs and associated crap. He was 20 when trying to join. He had cleaned up and was doing well for 3 years as an adult, but they somehow dug into his youth record, and made it virtually impossible for him to join.
The Army took him, about a year later. The Army has been rewarded with an intelligent PT stud who has become an E-3 before he finished Basic. Navy’s loss!
I didn’t encourage him to serve, because I can’t under current conditions, but I am still incredibly proud of him.


15 posted on 01/27/2024 10:49:17 AM PST by vpintheak (Pinko misanthrope)
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To: Dr. Marten

what normal guy wants to get stuck on a boat with a bunch of fags and trans idiots, with no chance of being promoted?


16 posted on 01/27/2024 10:51:17 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Stay away from The Poop Deck.


17 posted on 01/27/2024 10:53:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tophat9000

serving in the US military for a year has always granted someone to right to become a naturalized US citizen


18 posted on 01/27/2024 10:53:39 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: dagunk

Same here in 79. Same on ASVAB too. If they get rid of ASVAB then it is time to worry.


19 posted on 01/27/2024 10:53:40 AM PST by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: Dr. Marten

Soon we will be back to worse than McNamara’s Forest Gump’s or much worse. I wonder how this makes people with some ability and ambition feel? On the other hand, schools aren’t teaching much anymore so why bother?


20 posted on 01/27/2024 10:54:34 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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