Posted on 08/28/2022 6:52:29 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
The academy - and the others as well - can close the gap by declaring the school, or changing the name to, Military Trans Central. Make child pole dancing an academic major.
Your user name suggests you are involved in the selection of applicants already in the Navy or Marines for the Prep School. Have you seen any change in qualification requirements over recent years, and how do you account for the missing 20K applicants at large?
“was” on the board seems the operative word. How long ago, and how relevant is that experience to the current trend might be telling, So a fall of 50% is no big deal. What happens when it’s 10K?
I get that for sure. However, as bad as the service academies are, the rest of the colleges are a hundred times worse.
Even with free tuition, room & board, books, and guaranteed salary & benefits upon graduation: Would you REALLY want to serve under this Currender-in-Chief?
There are plenty of Saudi’s with flight experience! H1B’s PedoJoe!
How was DA-DT a foolishness? Seems it would protect against rank abuse and personal abuse.
I guess the real military men will have to go Soldier of Fortune.
Or the Wagner Group....
Thanks, Socialists! Thanks, RINOs! Thanks, Globalist One-World Pukes! Great job you’re doing to speed our decline!
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All those you’ve cited who are damaging our country are enabled by the Democrat Party and the RINOs who support their anti-American policies. And if DeSantis isn’t the Republican candidate, and President Trump is but fails to win for the third consecutive time, I think we’re doomed to become the national equivalent of New York and California!
I was on the admissions board at the naval academy. We get 40K applicants and accept 1200. So what. Now we get 20K and pick 1200. This is just crying over a statistic number.
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Is this also “just crying over a statistic number”?
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was on the admissions board at the naval academy. We get 40K applicants and accept 1200. So what. Now we get 20K and pick 1200. This is just crying over a statistic number.
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Is this also the result of “just crying over a statistic number”?
Not exactly. The eligible pool is much smalller and out of that the per cent that wants to be in the armed forces is much smaller. After Britain no longer had an empire a historian spent a long time stuying the so called merit selection system for the British, British Indian, and colonial civil service selectees. One big factor stood out. The number and academic quality of the candidates presenting themselves for examination had fallen in absolute numbers and the academic quality had declined dramatically from 1920 to 1950. In interviewing former professional civil servents it was universally noted that they felt their had been a dramatic decline in the prestige of the ‘empire’ civil service from 1914 to the 1920’s and the decline continued until WW2 came along. Relatively few talented young men wanted to dedicate their lives to working in an unhealthful distant foreign climate even for good pay and benefits. The key was the prestige of the’Empire’ had dramatically fallen amid the middle and upper middle class along with the entire notion of serving the Empire was a ‘glorious burden’. I submit that is what we see here. Most bright students know the life of a professional military man is one of endless moves, extraordinarily long days in a demanding culture that has little prestige in the larger society. Working for a bank, hedge fund, brokerage house or being a corporate lawyer offers far more money, prestige, and opportunities. I ave heard lawyers and bankers say ‘why would any intelligent man make a career out of something dangerous, demanding and poorly compensated as the military. It is a waste of most of those who are both smart and deluded who do it. Why not just contract most of the military out, like the Indian Army was with 80% Indian and the rest British and make sure the real necessary things such as ballistic missiles and nuke subs stay all American and very very well paid. There are masses of competent and even intelligent men from South America and Asia that would kill just to be a common soldier or sailor in the US military. We can hire them at less than a third of what it now costs for Americans, get smarter harder working soldiers commanded by adequately intelligent Americans.
Are they still shoving the vax on people?
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Yep, my daughter spend 6 years in JROTC, and ROTC.
She received a full scholarship, but they refused to contract her and give her the scholarship money unless she got vaxed. She applied for a religious exemption, but still no word after 1 year.
She finally had enough, and dropped ROTC this year. She will graduate in the spring anyway.
She said there were 146 people in her ROTC class last year, they only have 51 this year.
Thankfully not naval academy. I mean that’s just a weird picture.
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Ping.
No.
But they do need to be willing to learn.
Thankfully not naval academy. I mean that’s just a weird picture.
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Here’s another weird picture, again at the USMA.
But they do need to be willing to learn.
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Learn what?
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