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Americans Don't Want to Fight For Their Country Anymore
Newsweek ^ | 11.10.2023 | Aleks Phillips

Posted on 11/10/2023 1:46:35 PM PST by Dr. Marten

A majority of American adults would not be willing to serve in the military were the U.S. to enter into a major war, recent polling has found, while public confidence in the armed forces appears to be waning.

The figures come as all branches of the armed forces have in recent years struggled to meet their recruitment targets, suggesting a growing apathy towards a career of military service. In 2023, the Army and Air Force fell short of their respective goals by around 10,000 recruits, while the Navy was under by 6,000. Since 1987, the number of active-duty personnel has fallen by 39 percent.

Experts say that such shortfalls are worrisome in an increasingly volatile global picture with American leadership unsure when it will next have to bring its full military force to bear.

"We have strike groups, aircraft carriers with a Marine Expeditionary Unit outside Israel now," Justin Henderson, a former transport operator for the U.S. Marines turned military recruiter, told Newsweek. "We're funding two wars, but we're actually boots on the ground, drones above Gaza. So we're already involved in there—and we're not sure what's happening in Taiwan. So this is a very tumultuous time for us, because we don't know what's going to happen."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draft; military; militaryservice; selectiveservice; war
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To: Dr. Marten
I would fight to defend my subdivision, my township and my county — and probably even a large swath of the state where I live.

Anything beyond that is not a concern of mine. And in a military capacity I would never answer to any chain of command that goes up to some jackass in Washington DC.

61 posted on 11/10/2023 2:31:41 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Dr. Marten

hell no I wouldn’t serve with a bunch of trannys and women who can’t do the job!


62 posted on 11/10/2023 2:32:23 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Dr. Marten
Americans Don't Want to Fight For Their Country Anymore

I'll fight for Lunchbag Lujan!


63 posted on 11/10/2023 2:32:30 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: cgbg

“As long as one J6 political prisoner remains there is no country for fight for...”

The absolute God’s Honest Truth.


64 posted on 11/10/2023 2:33:08 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TheWriterTX

He sounds like a smart kid. Ordinarily kids like him were the backbone of the military. Not anymore.


65 posted on 11/10/2023 2:33:20 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: cgbg

Amen.


66 posted on 11/10/2023 2:35:04 PM PST by Nea Wood (Screw diversity. Celebrate excellence. )
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To: Dr. Marten

Because the US has not been in a military action to defend the country since WW II.

Since then, it’s been one imperial adventure after another.


67 posted on 11/10/2023 2:37:31 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: Antihero101607

“No, I’d say that people don’t want to fight for this government.”

You do have a point. A young man just out of high school recently told me that.


68 posted on 11/10/2023 2:37:36 PM PST by odawg
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To: JonPreston

They are all exempt, you know don’t have to serve.


69 posted on 11/10/2023 2:38:44 PM PST by Ronald77
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To: Dr. Marten

Fought once with democrats in charge, never again.


70 posted on 11/10/2023 2:40:14 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Antihero101607

I don’t think we have had a Republican government since the 1950’s.
Modern RINOs are apprentice Democrats.
All our wars since WWII were unconstitutional.
So guys like you and I who served were involved in illegal wars.


71 posted on 11/10/2023 2:42:04 PM PST by rellic
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To: pierrem15
“draft on income,”

hmmmm I don't know... a lot of good folks make good money ...

I think “real value” should have something to do with it ...

Let's say young plumber gets a pass ...
Blue hair gender studies student .... first in line ..

something like that ....

“+$1 million families getting the highest chance of getting pulled.”

I'm not opposed to that ... but there is a difference between folks who make their $$ with real work and dogs like political whores.

72 posted on 11/10/2023 2:42:28 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Dr. Marten

Because it isn’t our country anymore.


73 posted on 11/10/2023 2:44:27 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Dr. Marten

Democrats are the enemy.... the enemy of the entire world. /spit


74 posted on 11/10/2023 2:49:57 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: BenLurkin

You took the words right out of my brain.


75 posted on 11/10/2023 2:50:25 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Dr. Marten

Draft it is!
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Are they even capable of fighting? Too woke to survive in the real world.


76 posted on 11/10/2023 2:51:32 PM PST by iontheball
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To: Drew68

I saw the 2023 commercial on YouTube and there were several thousand replies, almost all of which were negative and derisive of the current military and the Biden regime. We have enough firepower in the eastern Mediterranean to dissuade Turkey, Iran, and Syria to get into the Israel vs. Hamas fight. But what happens later this decade when those men who joined up during the Iraq and Afghan wars retire? Perhaps the Muslim nations and the Chinese and Russians will wait a few years. All these powers will be rooting for Biden, or Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom, no doubt helping them with dark money and technical support.


77 posted on 11/10/2023 2:51:36 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Dr. Marten
Draft it is!

Spoken like a woke fascist.

The military had no problem with recruitment before they went full gender-dystopic retard.

Now they want the people they drove out of the military back so they can send them to die for FJB/Soros's money laundering operation.

78 posted on 11/10/2023 2:52:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Wallace T.
But what happens later this decade when those men who joined up during the Iraq and Afghan wars retire? Perhaps the Muslim nations and the Chinese and Russians will wait a few years.

Russia is building a million man army full of battle-hardened veterans with experience in modern ground combat against NATO tactics and equipment.

They will not be pushovers.

79 posted on 11/10/2023 2:57:54 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s not the country I grew up in and enlisted in 1963. Not anymore José!


80 posted on 11/10/2023 2:58:11 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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