Posted on 11/02/2016 10:19:43 PM PDT by kevcol
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter spoke on “Force of the Future” military reforms this week that may involve relaxed recruiting rules on everything from single-parent enlistees to drug use and obesity.
A Tuesday event at City College of New York featured Mr. Carter speaking on the challenges of recruitment in a nation that is fatter, increasingly at ease with smoking marijuana, and producing more single-parent homes
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OMG - Is that a joke ?
hurry up Trump we need you!
So now we'll be recruiting from homeless shelters, I guess and the military will have to have orphanages, for when the OBESE, BRAIN FRIED, UNWED mothers get shipped off to fight ISIS.
I doubt this is is going to pass the "smell test" once President Trump is sitting in the Oval office!
As they learn of this, Presidents Putin and Xi toast a glass of champagne and marvel how easy it was to destroy America from within.
I was thinking the same thing about many of the soldiers, sailors and airmen I’ve met over the years.
Trump'll fire ALL your asses !
No more girly man dickless politics.
Nothing but warrior men and a few women.
No quota's, no affirmative action.
Just bad people doing bad things and gettin' the job done.
I’ll join, I’m 54 I can’t pass a physical but I can work on getting our military equipment back up to snuff till I drop dead, if they would let me. I always wanted a government gig.
I’m already fat and if they want me to smoke pot, I’ll give it a try.
I’m glad to under Donald Trumps administration.
I will sleep well tonight; because the fat-assed Marine chick is vigilant, protecting us and still catching more PokeMons...
I am reminded of an episode during my AF period.
We had this kid (3rd year in service) who was physically active and sports-minded. I wouldn’t call him thin but he was not fat. He was probably 8 to 10 pounds under his max. So the AF came up with version 99 of their fat-boy program, which meant they wanted to not just weigh you but put the measuring tape around your gut and neck. Their judgement on the kid? He was 2-percent too thick/too fat. In their mind, he didn’t look correct in the uniform, although his weight met their standards.
The gimmick to this was that if he’d been two years older (at the time) then he’d had a different standard on the tape numbers and be OK. All of this fat-gaming business got him disenchanted, and a year later...he took his IT certificate and left the service for a $90,000 a year job.
My only suggestion for the Pentagon is that they need to find one single standard and just stick with it and not revise it every five years through each service with twenty pages of odd rules.
Community service for low level convicts?
Internships for college freshmen?
Fixed that.
Recruiter: “Can you walk a 1/4 mile to a convenience store for a bag of Doritos and not forget the pack of Pampers?”
Recruit: “Like, Dude! Who couldn’t do that!?!”
Recruiter: “Sign here.”
Military policy when I was in was, “Shape up or ship out”.
C’mon, now. She’s ordering from Pizza Hut, and Dominoes, and Papa John’s, Papa Murphy’s, Quiznos, McDonalds, Burger King, Dunkin’ Doughnuts, Baskin-Robbins...
Au contraire. Check the snout. She’s the best truffle-hunter in the corps.
As long as they are Transgendered or Leaning that way... what is the problem?
Caption. We have not lowered the standards. We have, however, as you can see, widened and enlarged them.
Twitter/Texter Gossip 1st class technician Ho Li Phuk, sitting for duty. Umm, say, did you bring me some fries?
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