Military struggling to meet quota.

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ButchPlz said:
The new US Army slogan is everywhere on my ride into the city this AM- I pass the Pentagon/Crystal City metro stops on the way to the office.

I guess they haven't figured out the badasses they're trying to recruit have no interest in fighting for the government. Because you don't fight for country in the military anymore- only the bureaucracy.
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The entire military leadership is completely out of touch with todays reality, hell the stars have always been clueless when it comes to advertising.
 
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hog88 said:
The entire military leadership is completely out of touch with todays reality, hell the stars have always been clueless when it comes to advertising.
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Military leadership is basically bought by contractors anyway. And they always have great ideas on everything that just goes away when the brass retires. It's an endless cycle of spending on nothing.
 
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davethevol said:
It’s too late. Everyone is soft now. I learned from my kid that no one in their PE class was able to do a pull up. Kids aren’t getting the exercise they need anymore, and that’s going to continue on through their lives. We are set up for failure down the road.
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Parents' fault. My time, instead of sitting on a couch playing video games, or azz-ing around on social media, we were ordered outside. Went to playgrounds, went adventuring in nearby parks. Got dragged off to hiking, camping and fishing trips. Played stick ball, tag, hide-and-seek. Climbed trees, and whatever else we could get away with climbing on. Walked across town to visit a glad to spoil you grandma and/or grandpap. Went adventuring on bicycles, pizzed off the girls until big ole Molly or Betsy kicked our azzes and made us call them Uncle Molly or Mama Betsy. To this day, I wonder if I ended up marrying my Xena-built Shirley due to a weird fetish for big girls. Oh, joining the army, right. We weren't couch wimps back then. We could run, jump, fight, and generally be trouble-hunters. Kids, today, they want you bottle-feed them, change their diapers, and head pat them the way you would your dog.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
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I think the article missed the mark. Yes the top brass is nothing but clueless ass kissing politicians but that's not the sole reason kids are not wanting to join. The parents of the kids coming of age lived through 20 years of senseless loss of life and witnessed disfigured soldiers coming home due to moronic ROE imposed on them. All for nothing so yeah there are people including me who actively discourage enlistment. Why be a pawn of politicians and brass looking to advance their careers?

Plus it starts much earlier than age 18, kids for the most part are soft and don't respond to discipline very well these days so the military just isn't attractive to a majority of them. For those who are looking for the discipline, the challenge, the esprit de corps of being a warrior it's not there anymore (outside of spec ops).
 
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Lmao .... Gee, I wonder why that's happening & why we're falling behind China in this?
I can't seem to put my finger on the problem with us not being competitive w/China.
Could it be our military has gone far too "woke" & caring way too much about focusing on a person's pronouns & the way some of us should think how racist our country has become?
China sits back & laughs at our weak & incompetent leader who sits in the Oval WH eating ice cream & joking about being married to Jill Biden & also having meetings w/TickTock celebrities.

 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
Lmao .... Gee, I wonder why that's happening & why we're falling behind China in this?
I can't seem to put my finger on the problem with us not being competitive w/China.
Could it be our military has gone far too "woke" & caring way too much about focusing on a person's pronouns & the way some of us should think how racist our country has become?

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The biggest example of the problem is in the picture.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:

And we can't figure out why people aren't joining...
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Far rightists, take note, it was the Repubs who did the blocking. Likely because they're beholden to big pharma, and other medical care lobbyists. I doubt it, but maybe now you can see why I say both parties don't really give a dime and dayum about we regular citizens. They may at times, toss a few mostly pointless crumbs our way, but usually don't care about us.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...xpanding-care-for-veterans-exposed-to-toxins/

The Repubs did self-correct later, but only under pressure. They had to be forced to do so.
Senate passes veterans health bill after Republicans cave in to pressure
 
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NEO said:
We are going to fall as a nation without a single bullet ever being fired from the invaders.
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With top notch moron Biden appointed leaders as we have now that are more concerned w/a persons pronouns & having Drag Queen Story hour on military bases. Pathetic at best.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
Lmao .... Gee, I wonder why that's happening & why we're falling behind China in this?
I can't seem to put my finger on the problem with us not being competitive w/China.
Could it be our military has gone far too "woke" & caring way too much about focusing on a person's pronouns & the way some of us should think how racist our country has become?
China sits back & laughs at our weak & incompetent leader who sits in the Oval WH eating ice cream & joking about being married to Jill Biden & also having meetings w/TickTock celebrities.

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This guy talks as if he isn't part of the problem.
 
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