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2020-12-30 -Land of the Free

American youth too flabby to defend nation, retired generals say

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Posted by 746 2020-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

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"We believe this is a critical step to the sustainability of the all-volunteer force and critical for our future strength and national security,"

So you want to 'draft' these unfit woke youths?

BTW you don't need as many if you quit being the worlds policeman. BTW 2, you have more generals per troop than you had in WW2 when you had millions in the ranks, what's up about that?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-30 06:27|| 2020-12-30 06:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Showing a stress card tends to make one flabby.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-30 06:34|| 2020-12-30 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to the social petri dish.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-30 06:51|| 2020-12-30 06:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Most young people can get into shape relatively quickly with the proper environment and diet.

The retired General should be more concerned with current military leadership showing a political bent that would discourage traditional patriotic American families from sending their well motivated and in physical shape children into the military.

Posted by Airandee 2020-12-30 07:06|| 2020-12-30 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Exactly correct. Very sad, but exactly correct. The well has been poisoned. One should not be blamed for not drinking from it.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-30 07:22|| 2020-12-30 07:22|| Front Page Top

#6 My advice is to not solve this issue. Why? Because it's not a problem to be solved. It's a symptom of a greater malaise. Society has reached a point where most needs are met with a minimal amount of effort as compared to what humans had to exert for 1000's of years. The solution is let it get bad enough to force our Country to reinstate the draft. This time for both sex's. This solves the problem on several fronts simultaneously. When people engage in a common hardship together it creates bonds that endure. It adds to an overall appreciation for our country. It allows all citizens to understand at a gut level that sacrifices are necessary to live the life we have. Solving this "issue" will not create the necessary common culture that we need to pull us together as citizens. The draft forces all income levels, all intellect and all aptitudes to a common denominator. Today we simply are loosing our commonality. Let it get so bad that we as a society have to reinstate the draft. 18 to 22 year olds today are about as mature as 12 year olds back in the 50's. Entitlement would swiftly fade away..... My two cents worth.

Posted by Ospas Dhahran 2020-12-30 07:28|| 2020-12-30 07:28|| Front Page Top

#7 What's left worth defending, actually?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-30 11:39|| 2020-12-30 11:39|| Front Page Top

#8 So throw out the Vindmans and promote the Eddie Gallaghers. That should solve most of the readiness problem.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-30 11:48|| 2020-12-30 11:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The solution is let it get bad enough to force our Country to reinstate the draft.

I can believe it will get that bad with a Biden/Harris administration but if you think BLAMTIFA riots are bad, wait until you ask young men and women of good character to go to war for Democrats.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-12-30 13:06|| 2020-12-30 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 ...When I was recruiting for the USAF thirty-one years ago, we were telling the leadership this was coming.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-12-30 14:47|| 2020-12-30 14:47|| Front Page Top

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