Posted on 01/26/2024 5:50:38 AM PST by Enlightened1
The Army is tossing its mandate for potential recruits to have a high school diploma or GED certificate to enlist in the service, in one of the most dramatic moves yet in the escalating recruiting crisis hitting the entire Defense Department.
On Thursday, the service announced that individuals may enlist without those previously required education certifications if they ship to basic training this fiscal year, which ends Oct. 1.
Recruits must also be at least 18 years old and otherwise qualify for a job in the active-duty Army. They also must score at least a 50 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, an SAT-style quiz to measure a potential recruit's academic ability.
50 on the test is a relatively low score, with 31 being the minimum to qualify for service. Combat arms jobs such as infantrymen and cavalry scouts need only minimal scores to serve, while admin work such as a human resources specialist or public affairs require scores of 100 or higher.
Previously, the Army would allow people to enlist if they hadn't finished high school yet at the age of 17 with parental consent. Those recruits typically wouldn't ship to basic training until they completed school.
The change follows another shift in policy this week when the service relaxed its tattoo rules, allowing potential recruits to enlist with tattoos on their hands and neck, which previously needed waivers.
The Army and its sister services have scrambled this year, offering increasingly generous benefits and policy tweaks in an effort to improve recruiting numbers. The Army has hit 40% of its recruiting goals this year, with the struggle to fill the ranks seemingly so grim the Defense Department reduced its planned total force size because prior recruiting goals were out of reach.
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A kindergarten diploma will do now.
“Army Drops Requirement for High School Diploma”
Take that, Putin!!!! We don’t need no soldiers who can read* because WE ARE AMERICA, and therefore INVINCIBLE!
*not that High School grads can read
Guess they figure that it doesn’t take much intelligence to be cannon fodder for their anti-white “cause”... They should have plenty of low-IQs to select from.
Plenty of illegals to choose from.
I had to deal with the post-Vietnam Cat IV issue back in the day.
Here we freaking go again.
Big fat, uneducated military personnel who can’t speak English. ROTFL! This is gonna be good.
Soon, but of course they gain legal status as part of the deal. (with voting rights)
1. Tell everyone white kids are just too unfit to serve; too fat, too stupid, too criminal, to mentally unbalanced.
2. Tell everyone there is a recruiting shortage coming.
3. Do not enlist whites, slowly process them, discourage them.
4. Claim whites are not enlisting.
5. Demand to enlist illegal aliens to fill the gap.
Nixing the DEI BS and refraining from demonizing whites would be far more helpful.
The Woke Army: We don’t recruit excellence. We recruit targets.
Unless our weapons systems can be downloaded and operated as an app, we’re doomed.
I’m pretty sure that “Our Democracy” has no serious intention of fighting a war against China, Russia, or Iran.
I’m pretty sure that “Our Democracy” is focused on waging war against domestic troublemakers (that’s us). Having an army made up of illegal aliens is perfect for their plans.
Substitute “illegal aliens” for military fighting men from other countries brought in as illegal aliens. See Michael Yon and the Darien Gap in Panama for more. Our own Travis McGee plays a part in that reporting.
This experiment was tried before and it failed. From Wikipedia”
“Project 100,000, also known as McNamara’s 100,000, McNamara’s Folly, McNamara’s Morons, and McNamara’s Misfits,[1][2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards. Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating workforce requirements of the U.S. government’s involvement in the Vietnam War. According to Hamilton Gregory, author of the book McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War, inductees of the project died at three times the rate[1] of other Americans serving in Vietnam and following their service had lower incomes and higher rates of divorce than their non-veteran counterparts. The project was ended in December 1971.[3]”
Scores of 100 or higher?…
When I took the ASVAB, 99 was the highest possible.
It means you were in the top 1% of test takers.
I had a friend in high school whose older brother and one of his buddies stole a motor home from a dealer lot. They got caught and were offered enlistment instead of prison. One of them got his paperwork in order and enlisted first, The other had a slow lawyer and enlisted two weeks later. In the interim the Pentagon changed the policy from a required two year enlistment to five years for court ordered enlistments. The funny part is that the first one, my friend's older brother, loved the Marine Corps and ended up retiring from it. The second one, the five year guy, absolutely hated it and couldn't wait to get out.
Correct. They will become our Military, and will be turned against us. Could be that some of them already happen to have ‘military’ experience... Notably, where they come from, being in the Military means having absolute control over your country’s people vs. defending the nation from.... invaders.
Well, Audie Murphy and Alvin York didn’t finish high school either.
How horrifying.
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