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.
Look at the trend line and consider the context.
As a percent of the population, fewer pro-American, highly qualified men exist; and fewer still want to join Biden's woke military.
That seems like a bad thing to me. To Biden and his handlers, this is the best thing in the world.
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.
You’re still getting the Ivy League degree for free applications. What’s dropping is interest from boys serious about a military career for patriotic reasons.
I attended the Naval Academy, retired from the Navy reserves. Three of my children attended service academies (1 USNA, 2 USAFA). I never consciously encouraged my children to attend a service academy. In today’s environment, I would actively discourage them from applying.
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?
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.
