[sparklite2]

Everyone of these kids would benefit
from a 4-year military stint, if they
could survive taking the oath...

[MrEdd]

Oh hell no.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Millennials are skeptical of the military, they view it as an imperalist machine.

[Alberta's Child]

I think it's more than just a "snowflake" mentality at work here. These men have been raised in a place and time where the game is heavily rigged against them. You see signs of this all over the place: declining male enrollment in college, hiring preference for women and minorities, etc.

One of the enduring memories of my involvement in a local business leadership group is a conversation I had with a mid-level executive with one of the Fortune 500 companies headquartered in my area. She was telling me how much difficulty her adult children were having in staying afloat in the area (they were still living at home in their late 20s). Here's how the conversation went:

ME: "What's going on with them?"

HER: "They simply can't afford to live here."

ME: "Why don't you sell them your home, since you're looking to downsize anyway?"

HER: "My home is worth $1.2 million. They couldn't afford that if two of them bought it together." (Apparently the thought of selling it to them for the same $400,000 it would have been worth without a government-inflated real estate bubble never occurred to her.)

ME: "Then have your company hire them and pay them enough money to afford it."

HER: [Completely baffled look on her face.]

That's the story in a nutshell. The ranks of the leadership in our top private companies are filled with people like this who have reached the age of 60 by leveraging a career path and a real estate bubble into a $1.2 million asset that nobody other than a family of 25 Mexicans can afford.

And her kids will eventually end up in Texas or North Carolina when their jobs move there.

[Oorang]

Agreed, a 4 year military sting would be in order. But, they are not “kids”. The age span, according to the article, is from 1986 = 33 years of age, to 1995 - 24 years of age. Pretty pathetic of the millennial’s but every more so of the parents for allowing it.

[BradyLS]

The Left has had a big hand in screwing up millennials from kindergarten on. I have a nephew looking to join the Navy and I’ve encouraged him to exercise and study up on the ASVAB before committing to anything. He can make it, but it ain’t no joke.

[wastedyears]

There are those of us with legitimate medical reasons that we cannot serve, or even get drafted.