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| 'I Wouldn't Encourage Anyone To Join': As Pentagon Goes Woke, Veterans Refuse To Help Military Recruitment Efforts |
| 2023-05-20 |
| [DC Inquirer] Veterans of the United States military are refusing to help out with efforts to relieve the Pentagon's acute recruitment problems citing the wokeness problem embedded in the current military structure as their reason to not get involved. As reported by Just The News, the military has a major recruitment problem among Americans, however, that by itself is not exactly a new development. As previously noted by the DC Enquirer, while obesity rates are an external problem for the military force, wokeness poses an internal problem within the armed forces. The vast majority of Americans from the 17-24 demographic are, according to a Department of Defense study, unfit for military services - primarily due to obesity rates among that demographic. The Heritage Foundation's Director of the Center for National Defense, Thomas Spoehr, proclaimed that "Woke ideology undermines military readiness in various ways. It undermines cohesiveness by emphasizing differences based on race, ethnicity, and sex. It undermines leadership authority by introducing questions about whether promotion is based on merit or quota requirements." Related: Recruitment problem: 2010-12-15 Aussie Navy closes for Christmas, families first in new year Recruitment problem: 2007-09-17 Defeat Made in Washington Related: Military recruit: 2023-05-04 'I can't believe I fought for this bulls**t': Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama Bin Laden fumes over Navy's decision to use drag queen for their recruitment program Military recruit: 2022-10-11 Darrell Issa accuses Biden DOD of moving goalposts to hide scale of recruiting crisis Military recruit: 2022-09-27 Good Morning |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 The pool of potential recruits is polluted by our school system. The military has been turned into something that vets no longer recognize. If I see a kid with potential, why would I encourage them to join? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-05-20 20:57 |
| #8 /\ 'forever wars'... How much of this is the process started after Vietnam to make most ground troop formations a mixture of Regulars and Reservists/National Guard? The social contract was that as a 'citizen soldier' you would be activated (quaint euphemism that) only in the event of War defending home and hearth. The Regulars on the other hand could go and soldier in places unknown and far away... The unending frontier wars also broke the citizen army of Republican Rome as well. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-05-20 17:51 |
| #7 ^ Yeah, and these replacements will be none to fussy about shooting whoever they're told to shoot. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-05-20 15:31 |
| #6 /\ Current population has gotten wise to the totalitarian Deep State bullshi* and forever wars. Less educated, more pliable 'replacement people' possessing no previous allegiances are urgently needed. People under thirty preferred. No English language proficiency required. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-20 13:58 |
| #5 In case you haven't noticed, Tom, we are currently in the process of being overrun because our "leaders" have left our southern border wide open. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-05-20 13:33 |
| #4 With the state that our military is in, I thank the Lord every day for the oceans. If the US were located where, say, Poland or Syrai is, and we had this leadersip, we would have been conquered and overrun long ago. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-05-20 12:35 |
| #3 I saw people get promoted who I knew had 'bad paper' (mediocre to poor) performance reports. Go ahead, ask me how I know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-20 12:21 |
| #2 Why my older brother got out in the 90's after 26 years in ...no promotions to Chief if you were white and male. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-05-20 10:36 |
| #1 It undermines leadership authority by introducing questions about whether promotion is based on merit or quota requirements." Sorry, that question was answered decades ago. Ask anyone who has ever sat on a military promotion board. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-20 10:23 |