Military struggling to meet quota.

#151
#151
85SugarVol said:
So you haven’t taken the actual training? Who is getting the training that the Q&A will address?
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Sure, there’s training… transgender policy, suicide awareness, human trafficking, sexual assault, mental health, operational stress, list goes on. These are all either computer based or 30 minute in-person delivery.

These trainings are a check in the box, that’s all.
 
#152
#152
Willy P said:
Sure, there’s training… transgender policy, suicide awareness, human trafficking, sexual assault, mental health, operational stress, list goes on. These are all either computer based or 30 minute in-person delivery.

These trainings are a check in the box, that’s all.
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Sounds like a lot of time that could be better spent.
 
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#157
#157
hog88 said:
I've never understood why people say that. Never heard anyone say it prior to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I generally reply with thank you for paying me or simply I got paid.
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One of my good friends (Navy vet) always says people should be thanking small business owners and people that create and innovate for their service instead.
 
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#161
I didn't join for the pay, the benefits or the free beer and easy girls, I joined because I wanted to jump out of airplanes, play in the woods, shoot and blow **** up. Basically I wanted to do cool stuff and think I was a badass, plus I had to get the hell out of dodge before mom found out I had dropped of college. I think (at least the Army) misses the mark on their advertising by not playing to the young, dumb Hogs out there that aren't interested in learning a skill or have a career in mind.
 
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#169
WoodsmanVol said:
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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Yet you seem to have the leftist liberal tendencies... what gives?
 
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#170
rekinhavoc said:
It was worse in 1987.

1987 Military Pay Chart
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Man I didn't realize how little I made back then. But you know what.. when you are overseas with base housing and a good Commissary, it wasn't that bad. I didn't leave the Navy because of the money. It was the ******** and the lack of options for my career path.
 
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Willy P said:
I can’t bring myself to agree with the DEI narrative. Unless I’m in a vacuum, which is possible, I’ve had zero issues with any of this “woke” stuff taking priority over the mission or regular activities. At best, it’s a small distraction. Personally I believe the media blows it way out of proportion.
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That's an encouraging statement.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Thank you for your service.
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I am always a little embarrassed when someone says it to me. I was in the peacetime Navy (except at the end when Gulf war 1 happened) and I didn't get to play in that one or it would have been over in a few milliseconds. But I do appreciate the thought.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I am always a little embarrassed when someone says it to me. I was in the peacetime Navy (except at the end when Gulf war 1 happened) and I didn't get to play in that one or it would have been over in a few milliseconds. But I do appreciate the thought.
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As a recruiter in East TN, I heard it all the time. I still wasn’t comfortable with it. My deployments have been on submarines, I’ve never been shot at.

I think about my dad who spent three years in Vietnam and came home to a lot of people that hated him for it. I’m glad our country is more patriotic these days…
 
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Willy P said:
As a recruiter in East TN, I heard it all the time. I still wasn’t comfortable with it. My deployments have been on submarines, I’ve never been shot at.

I think about my dad who spent three years in Vietnam and came home to a lot of people that hated him for it. I’m glad our country is more patriotic these days…
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Have friend that served on subs, you guys are crazy. But crazy in a good way.
 
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UT_Dutchman said:
Minimum wage was $3.35 in 1986.
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In less than 40 years we've managed to drive it exponentially to where unskilled jobs are flirting with $15/hr, and goods are commensurately higher. We've just priced ourselves out of the world labor market, insured the balance of trade will never be flipped in our favor, decreased participation in the job market, and a lot of people are happy as pigs in slop because they have absolutely no idea what it all means. Inflation is an economy killer, and it's working like a charm.
 
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