Strange... No one wants to join the gay woke club? Maybe if they throw in some free cut-your-wiener off surgery... Wait... Didn't they already do that?
Not particularly shocking. There’s a few standards geared towards recruiting people who’d look good in a parade uniform rather then a focus on skilled people.
Add in the woke political drama of the last few years. Planned Force reorganization’s cutting various MOS. Marines are losing their tankers for instance. Units being transferred into reserves. Budget problems. Various projects going over budget and producing results well below what was promised. The most notable examples being the F-35 and LCS lines of ships.
There’s also the fact increasingly smaller and smaller numbers of people meet qualifications to even be recruited. Rising rates of obesity and mental illness are disqualifying people. Doesn’t help the Colleges are increasingly hostile towards the Military. Or the fact the Army is struggling to produce recruitment ads worth a damn.
A couple generations now have also grown up watching Veteran family get screwed by the VA. A problem more or less ignored for decades.
In essence There’s a plethora of factors coming together to dry up recruitment numbers. Most of which were known about years in advance. And the Pentagon Brass predictably ignored the plethora of people who were raising the alarm and offering plans for how to deal with it.
I guess in favor of planning for their retirement jobs at Raytheon or Lockeed or whoever. Given the recent weapons contracts with SIG. I’d imagine SIG will have itself a couple new execs in the future when they retire from the Pentagon.
You'd think that the leftists would be happy that "right leaning unpriviliged white males" are putting up their hands to train hard and to be killed overseas, or something. It means that the lefty noodlearms don't have to.
What is it they are really trying to say? That such males do not have the right to apply themselves to anything? Or are they saying that there should be equity, when there is visible evidence that they are voting with their feet, in the other direction?
Perhaps they are saying that the military should be abolished on principle, because it attracts this undesirable, deplorable group?
Strange... No one wants to join the gay woke club? Maybe if they throw in some free cut-your-wiener off surgery... Wait... Didn't they already do that?
Not unprivilege, just normal kids from the hearland.
Not particularly shocking. There’s a few standards geared towards recruiting people who’d look good in a parade uniform rather then a focus on skilled people.
Add in the woke political drama of the last few years. Planned Force reorganization’s cutting various MOS. Marines are losing their tankers for instance. Units being transferred into reserves. Budget problems. Various projects going over budget and producing results well below what was promised. The most notable examples being the F-35 and LCS lines of ships.
There’s also the fact increasingly smaller and smaller numbers of people meet qualifications to even be recruited. Rising rates of obesity and mental illness are disqualifying people. Doesn’t help the Colleges are increasingly hostile towards the Military. Or the fact the Army is struggling to produce recruitment ads worth a damn.
A couple generations now have also grown up watching Veteran family get screwed by the VA. A problem more or less ignored for decades.
In essence There’s a plethora of factors coming together to dry up recruitment numbers. Most of which were known about years in advance. And the Pentagon Brass predictably ignored the plethora of people who were raising the alarm and offering plans for how to deal with it.
I guess in favor of planning for their retirement jobs at Raytheon or Lockeed or whoever. Given the recent weapons contracts with SIG. I’d imagine SIG will have itself a couple new execs in the future when they retire from the Pentagon.
You'd think that the leftists would be happy that "right leaning unpriviliged white males" are putting up their hands to train hard and to be killed overseas, or something. It means that the lefty noodlearms don't have to.
What is it they are really trying to say? That such males do not have the right to apply themselves to anything? Or are they saying that there should be equity, when there is visible evidence that they are voting with their feet, in the other direction?
Perhaps they are saying that the military should be abolished on principle, because it attracts this undesirable, deplorable group?