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| Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals |
| 2024-01-28 |
| No high school, no GED, OK. [NYPost] The US 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. The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards. Under the new plan, Navy recruits without an education credential will be able to join as long as they score 50 or above on the qualification test, which is out of 99. The last time the service took individuals without education credentials was in 2000. “We get thousands of people into our recruiting stations every year that want to join the Navy but do not have an education credential. And we just turn them away,” said Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, the Navy’s chief of personnel, in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. He said that of the more than 2,400 who were turned away last year, as many as 500 of them could score high enough to get in. He said he has already sent an order to his recruiters to start the new expanded effort, adding, “I’m hoping all my recruiters have called all 2,442 of them in the last 72 hours, and we’ll see how it goes … We’ll try to get some test takers this weekend.” In the wake of the pandemic, the services have faced significant enlistment challenges. COVID-19 forced the military to shut down recruiting stations and they were closed out of high schools and many public fairs of events where they historically found success reaching prospective candidates. But even as things opened up, the military struggled to compete with higher-paying businesses in the tight job market, particularly as companies began to offer the types of benefits — such as college funding — that had often made the military a popular choice. Those economic problems were only exacerbated by the sharp political divide in the country and young people’s fears of being killed or injured going to war. Last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, the Navy, Army and Air Force all failed to meet their recruitment goals, while the Marine Corps and the tiny Space Force met their targets. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #13 @#6 - Lodge Act? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-01-28 22:30 |
| #12 I pay taxes. Milley and C.Q.Brown are no more fit to control votes. They aren't even fit for their jobs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-28 20:34 |
| #11 As a veteran, I would disagree with that Irish. The military is beholden to the civilian government and there won't be pure vets running the show. You do need bean counters running the show as well, no matter how much I want to hit them. Also, the mothers and fathers that could be having their taxes and children going for that get a vote, even if they haven't served. Everyone gets a voice. That being said we really need to up our education on world affairs and why sometimes it is necessary to establish our dominance at the top of the food chain through extreame violence. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-01-28 19:25 |
| #10 some heinlein here. If you haven't been in the military you cant vote. |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-01-28 17:08 |
| #9 In a related note, a rumor about rebranding the 'DEI', the DIE score, is to add, I think, 'Justice' to the acronym. uggghhh Your JEDI score. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-28 14:58 |
| #8 Given he complete deterioration of the US education system, not a bad idea actually. The military can definitely retrain people on how to learn, they learn their job and get a HS diploma at the same time. As their career goes on, they can get more schooling and leave the service with a bachelor's. Assuming of course the military doesn't fuck it up with DEI training only. Although if Biden leaves, hopefully all that woke bullshit goes with him along with the woke officers. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-01-28 13:56 |
| #7 Because we have a lot jobs for people in the modern Navy to operate and service the simple stuff on the USS Ford or Arleigh Burke/Aegis DDGs. Now that no academic credential is required (however risible it now is) look for a huge increase in ASFAB ( yes I'm that old) AFQT fraud and cheating scandals in about a years time. Some here will remember the ordeal of culling the force from the mid-to-late 70's. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-01-28 13:50 |
| #6 Opening the door for Non-English speaking 'Replacement People' enlistments. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-01-28 12:37 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-01-28 12:20 |
| #4 Soon the spoon fog test will be the primary requirement. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-01-28 12:13 |
| #3 Poor teaching technique in the schools is part of the cause of the test problem. Not to mention the difficulty of learning from Zoom classes during the shutdown. If they can be taught how to learn, how many potential recruits would be salvageable? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-28 11:38 |
| #2 The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. I can buy the lack of a certificate of attendance to public schools, but the ASQT has been a bench mark since the 70s. Got to wonder how much its been watered down for 'equity'. BTW, the action brings with it a deterioration in discipline. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-28 11:15 |
| #1 Why would any straight/normal person want to join the LSD's openly deviant, 180 from a normal fighting military? The Afghan pullout and the Americans and allies abandoned there alon,e showed this Coup/Regime is even questionable to the M.I.C. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-01-28 08:16 |