Will the femi-nazis demand women be included?
It ain't my Army anymore ('69-'72). I'm sure the radical social experimentation in the military also has a lot to do with low enlistment numbers.
The vast majority of people who show up for Basic Training are unfit for military service. That’s why they get sent to Basic Training. Most of them are OK on the far side.
‘s because they’re all on DRUGS!!!!! Bah!
When I enlisted during the Carter administration the majority of applicants were weeded out before bootcamp.
Everything old is a crisis now that Trump is president.
Our son just scored a 66 on his ASVAB. The US Army is jonesing for him. :)
To many are unfit.period.
Never have seen so many pot bellied 20 something females.
Let alone the males who look they need a multivitamin and or a blood transfusion ..
Don’t forget the Smart phone stoop ,how bent over will they be in 20 years
Thinking back to school in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s I am struck by how attractive I thought everybody was. Each class was likely to have “the fat kid.” But he was a relative rarity and the ones I remember mostly wouldn’t be noticed as such in a similar grade today. I was at a red-light as the high school let out. With few exceptions the kids ranged from fat to obese to grossly obese. Throw in the haphazard way they were combed and dressed and, for the most part, they were downright ugly.
Send them to Afghanistanistan.
Got a letter in the mail...
Said go to war or go to jail...
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There were plenty of “jail or the army” privates in my basic class - way back in the day. Most turned out to be pretty good soldiers.
A friend’s grandson could not get into the army because of hearing loss and was told it was pretty common.
That the universities have driven ROTC chapters off campuses and the Left has destroyed the Boy Scouts should concern everyone about the present and future of national defense.
I’m ineligible due to the fact I take anti-seizure medication. Nevermind how pathetically out of shape I am.
Oh, and I’m 32 so I’m pretty long in the tooth for the military.
When I was growing up we spent after-school and Saturday hours in empty lots and at a nearby school or park field playing pickup baseball, boys and girls together. We spent time at playgrounds which were not only for little kiddies in those days (i.e. trapezes, rings and other equipment).
We walked a mile to the bakery or the drug store and back for mom a couple times a week afer school. We walked or biked to school, even high school, even in winter through snow. We swam in the local public pool. We were, in the main, lean kids....and fit.
Nowadays, almost every single ElHi kid I see in a store, or on the street or hanging in the mall is walking around with a toy glued to his/her ear or in-hand. I drive past parks and playgrounds on weekends, and they are deserted.
Thank God many kids today are involved in some athletic or after-school activity program or other, but the vast majority today are living lives texting with friends, hanging out here and there chatting with friends (texting all the while) or sitting at the computer whiling away their leisure hours on vacuous social media sites instead of participating in any type of healthy exercise.
Many of their parents are just as bad...and we all know it as we see it almost every day we go out somewhere. Yesteday at Publix, a woman shopper was so engrossed in her phone conversation in the middle of an aisle she didn't even notice she was blocking movement for three different people with carts. She finally, and grudgingly, moved so we could pass.
Our society, younger and older, is becoming self-absorbed and neurotic. The military will find things getting tougher rather than easier in regards to recruitment, male and female alike.
Leni
I keep suggesting a very low cost way to raise the quality of enlistees. The three big problems are overweight, out of shape, and illiteracy.
Get a patch of land, surround it with a fence. Put wooden barracks, an admin building, and a mess hall in it. The whole place is run by veterans.
Prospective enlistees who do not make the grade are on a three month cycle. Overweight are on an individualized restricted diet. They and the out of shape are on a PT regimen. They jog everywhere they go. Starting slow, they end up exercising in one way or another for six or so hours a day.
The illiterate enlistees spend their time in the classroom, with some time to exercise to stay in shape.
They wear civilian clothes they brought with them. They cannot leave the camp until they are done, one way or another. Any screw ups or other fails and they are kicked out with no chance to enlist.
The veterans and camps themselves are rated on how many of their graduates make it through basic training. So they don’t just get them by the standards, they have to motivate them to succeed.
As they increase the quality of enlistees, it will also raise the quality standards of basic training.
Another disturbing thought is that those who are of military age now have grown up having subversive and degenerate liberal propaganda drilled into their heads by public schools and the entertainment and news media.
Just don’t tell me we have the same problem as China says it has: the potential young recruits are too fat and they m@sturb@te too much.