[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 23% of 18-24 year olds qualify for military service only 9% interested (Page 2 of 9)
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Quoted: Isn't coffee or die a BRCC thing. Didn't click it. Regarding today's woke military, finding recruits with 2 moms isn't easy. Stars and Stripes, Military.com, Army Times and FederalNetwork all have pretty much the same article. Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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It’s truly fascinating the responses. Only a little while ago any criticism of .mil on this site got you flamed and run out of town. And it’s not solely based on who occupies the White House. A lot of great examples provided. If ya’ll were wondering what a cultural shift looks like, this is a decent example. |
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Quoted: Lol. Since when is being fat an issue, they’ll lose that weight real quick. When my dad went to boot camp before Korea, the DI singled out a chunky fellow in the barracks the first day. Nicknamed him "Lardass" or something. He walked around him, then grasped a chunk of his ass, tight. Yelled out someymthing about loving him some big asses in fat boy's ear: "Just letting you know I'm going to have that luscious ass before you leave here...it will be mine!" The fat boy immediately thought the sergeant was going to rape him during his time there. Scared shitless. He did not know that fear, diet and exercise would leave his chunky butt with the DI. I bet drill instructors laugh their asses off with each other alone. |
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our communist administration has announced that being born a white, Christian, male is essentially being born in sin. gee, i wonder why those that fit this description are not interested in joining the lgbt4q*+# army? the political class can send their own kids to ukraine to bleed for the big guy's 10%. my son isn't available. |
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Quoted: It’s truly fascinating the responses. Only a little while ago any criticism of .mil on this site got you flamed and run out of town. And it’s not solely based on who occupies the White House. A lot of great examples provided. If ya’ll were wondering what a cultural shift looks like, this is a decent example. Yeah, remember how everyone here was dogging on the military back during the Obama and Clinton years? Yeah, neither does anyone else. This is way deeper than whoever happens to be occupying the White House, even if that current person did pour gas on the fire. The culture change is the expanding pervasiveness of wokism. The Trump years were just a speed bump in its path. The culture change has been at work a lot longer than that. |
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Quoted: Not to mention they have avoided showing coffins when ever possible since Obama got into office. Quoted: Quoted: The last 20 years have had pretty low losses. Not to mention they have avoided showing coffins when ever possible since Obama got into office. |
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I know a lot of 20somethings. More than half refused the coersion with the experimental covid injectable products. Hell, one girl quit when told she have the PCR test to keep her job. Being young might make one naive, but not necessarily stupid. I imagine a few do look at the news and see the disasterous way PoopyPants withdrew us from the sandbox, the forced clot-shots and are smart enough to avoid military service. One guy on our crew was recently in the Marines. He told me he did not re-up solely because they were going to require The Jab. Also got a letter last week that they'd pay him a $124k bonus if he would do a five year re-up. He actually weighed it. He is young and low on cash, but the Jab is still a requirement. He has declined. Speaking of injections...my SIL got out six years ago. He told me that after he got his battery of inoculations, that he has never passed a solid turd since. Not one in a decade. I know, TMI, but that is fucked up. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Putting more LGBTQ+ people in charge and increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion training will fix this. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/7E03CE51-7173-4F4B-A7D7-36B0142572AB_jpe-2378954.JPG Oh look. The problem. Guys who go into the military and especially the ones who engage directly in combat haven't got the time of day for this level of childishness and hiding from reality. "We can't attract enough people to deal with the harsh realities of life and engage in life or death situations! ... I know, let's talk more about hurt feelings and who you want to boink, that'll bring them in!" |
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Quoted: Once again, satire is impossible in clown world. https://www.army.mil/article/256075/recruiting_diversity_in_americas_armyAttached File |
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Quoted: Quoted: Once again, satire is impossible in clown world. https://www.army.mil/article/256075/recruiting_diversity_in_americas_armyhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/6172511B-8BF5-4D9D-A2FF-B2EDCB07CCBF_jpe-2379045.JPG Cynical take: Hey, when they manage to kick it off inside the union their recruiting in antifa and the left will skyrocket after they put out adverts of new recruits driving a tank through a ranch style house with a nice picket fence with normal looking kids outside playing on the lawn. 
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Quoted: Requiring the 12% effective (maybe) clot shot along with CRT training so all the white male recruits can learn what evil racist oppressors they are isn't helping recruiting numbers much. Did you actually get this training? I've heard about it here buy dont know anyone who's actually sat through that brief. |
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How many of you are on a training base on a frequent basis? I am on Ft Sill almost weekly, the recruits I see are truly sad. Dont get me wrong, I am glad they willingly joined but holy crap, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Its not just the recruits though, a lot of the permanent party members are a sad sight to behold. The only members I see that demonstrate any pride and military bearing are senior officers, senior NCO's and the DI's. I see a lot of soldiers at the hospital, commissary, PX, etc., wearing uniforms that look like they slept in them, dirty boots and unkempt hair. As for my own kids, I didnt encourage either one to join, I dont want them in today's military doing the bidding of this fucked up government. |
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While the basics of don't be a racist sexist jackass are for sure a vital thing, the Military has done a drastic overshoot of WOKE stupid. From that, failed to attract a meaningful increase in numbers of effeminate males and females, while at the same time have made the choice less appealing and inviting for the more hard-core masculine types. Or, as typical, a focus on appeasing those who don't like you - hasn't really changed a lot there, but has done a great job driving off the base of those who did like you. A classic blunder repeated again and again. |
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Quoted: Sounds like a pretty good metaphor for this civilization at the moment. Quoted: Quoted: I was waiting in a long checkout line at a garden store yesterday. There were lots of boomer women buying flowers for the fronts steps and other stuff, and the line kept getting longer and longer because there was only one cashier: an elderly senior citizen. She did a good job keeping things moving as fast as she could, but it was a losing battle. It was quite an image: store packed full of customers, a bunch of empty cash register stations, and just one older cashier. Sounds like a pretty good metaphor for this civilization at the moment. A long line of people willing to complain about other people not wanting jobs that they themselves will not do? |
I served in the Marines and always thought it would cool if my son choose that path. After Biden got elected and made the jab mandatory, I actively discourage my 18 year old from joining. Fuck the jab and that fucking disgusting pedophile that made it a requirement. 
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fuck the army, soon as boe jiden took office and started the woke bullshit and forced vax, destroyed morale, allowed the alpha bet soup mafia to climb the ranks faster, higher because of their "LGBTQ" status. kicking people out , field grade article 15s for refusing vax, despite having medical and religious exemptions denied. this isnt America anymore. I feel sorry for any IDIOT enlisting in a shitty MOS for 50k bonuses. |
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Quoted: Even if the shot is harmless, it was clear how they viewed people Quoted: Quoted: Requiring the 12% effective (maybe) clot shot along with CRT training so all the white male recruits can learn what evil racist oppressors they are isn't helping recruiting numbers much. Even if the shot is harmless, it was clear how they viewed people If you are male, southern, white, and evangelical, we don't want you. No, no, we don't care how much of the rolls you used to fill before nor your family traditions. |
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Quoted: i can only imagine what the responses to this thread would have been when trump was in office. different to say the least. The libs only see it as a Trump thing. Right thinking Americans, see it as much more pervasive. We are in an entirely different paradigm, and it has nothing at all to do with Trump. He just happened to be the figurehead, when the Presidency was overthrown. We all saw what they did to him, and the left will never give up that power, willingly. Conservatives are now living under an occupation. So far, it’s been pretty benign, as long as you pay your Taxes, and don’t challenge their supremacy. But why would they go above and beyond to support and defend that occupation? It’s not logical to expect them to. Libs arrogantly think that people serve for the money or some other shallow self interest. |
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Quoted: It’s truly fascinating the responses. Only a little while ago any criticism of .mil on this site got you flamed and run out of town. And it’s not solely based on who occupies the White House. A lot of great examples provided. If ya’ll were wondering what a cultural shift looks like, this is a decent example. "a little while ago" do you mean within the last month since you joined? 
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Quoted: It’s truly fascinating the responses. Only a little while ago any criticism of .mil on this site got you flamed and run out of town. And it’s not solely based on who occupies the White House. A lot of great examples provided. If ya’ll were wondering what a cultural shift looks like, this is a decent example. You've been here for less than a month, how would you know what the site was like "a while ago"? 
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I haven't been here long. But I have been here long enough to have heard about the meetings where officers were openly talking about subverting orders from potus, because orangman evil bad. It doesn't take much to get a clue after those sorts of things and people remember. Especially people who have read a little history and seen how these things generally go. |
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Quoted: I wonder how many of that 23% are being discouraged by their GWOT-vet relatives? I just spent last week holding a family member's hand while she died of cancer that even the VA agrees is connected to her Iraq service (burn pits). I don't want to subject my daughter to that. I have lung issues from that and the oil burns Idiot me was out in front getting pics taken like a fucking idiot in the oil smoke before they were put out. Stupid fucking kid. I wish I could go back and kick his fucking ass |
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Quoted: "a little while ago" do you mean within the last month since you joined? Quoted: Quoted: It’s truly fascinating the responses. Only a little while ago any criticism of .mil on this site got you flamed and run out of town. And it’s not solely based on who occupies the White House. A lot of great examples provided. If ya’ll were wondering what a cultural shift looks like, this is a decent example. "a little while ago" do you mean within the last month since you joined? Lol. Bro, I was here half a decade before you. Took a hiatus from posting, forgot password. It was just easier to start a new one with a name I liked better. |
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They lost their core values and therefore their core group of recruits. I’m sure all of you that are a bit older remember exactly who would be enlisting by 10th grade. I realize they wanted to weed out conservatives and they are doing a outstanding job. Unfortunately Antifa is a Terrorist group that can only fight with 10-1 odds and all odds tipped in their favor. Oh there are some tough ones here and there but they are the exceptions. |
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Quoted: Too woke and communist for me We were told to pretend women could do our job just as well, but every run or field exercise provided evidence they fell out more, spent more time on sick call/profiles, and increased the drama in a unit by many grid squares (if drama were measured by area). It was a relief to be safely segregated in a combat MOS. It was also before DADT. I can't imagine enjoying today's military as much as I did the old, and it was plenty stupid way back then. |
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Quoted: It’s truly fascinating the responses. Only a little while ago any criticism of .mil on this site got you flamed and run out of town. And it’s not solely based on who occupies the White House. A lot of great examples provided. If ya’ll were wondering what a cultural shift looks like, this is a decent example. Agree, good observation. |