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The Pentagon Owns Its Recruiting Crisis
Brownstone Institute ^ | 07/31/2022 | P. MICHAEL PHILLIPS, PH.D.

Posted on 07/31/2022 9:37:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: dfwgator

Oh how I wish Piglosi and Xiden would bring back conscription! Democrats couldn’t import enough fake ballots from China to stay in power if they ever pull such a bone headed stunt. The Jackass party would lose the peacenik and youth vote for at least a generation. Though I’m far too old for military service, I’d be marching in the streets alongside the youths I help talk out of serving the Xiden regime chanting, “Hell no! We won’t go!”


21 posted on 08/01/2022 3:02:46 AM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: SeekAndFind

My step son got good test scores and enlisted, went through some great schools , but before he got his first assignment, he shared that the discrimination against straight white males in training was so high that he knew one complaint by a classmate for any reason and he would be out. He kept his head down and is heading out to his first assignment. Classmates were passed with performance that was below requirements and with behavior issues that will insure that fragging might raise it’s ugly head in future operations. No more bible in your duffel bag, it’s best if it’s an encrypted file on your phone. There’s a native american back in our family tree, so I’m hoping he can self identify as a minority for future promotion prospects.


22 posted on 08/01/2022 3:16:11 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Salvavida
There isn’t a fifth star.

What does that mean?! Please be explicit and clear!

Regards,

23 posted on 08/01/2022 3:18:17 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Salvavida

I work for a tree trimming service whose work force is almost totally male and mostly young. I warn those considering military service how much power black supremacists, communists, radical feminists, and sexual deviants will have over them if they enlist. Video games such as “Call of Duty” tend to make the military look more “manly” and less “diverse” than the Democrats have made it since the Cold War ended. I recommend the oil field to any young man who wants to get away from his parents, make money, and be a man. I also remind them there’s no way they can “serve their country” getting crippled, maimed, or killed halfway around the world just so the neocons can enforce the NWO, even as our borders remain unprotected...


24 posted on 08/01/2022 3:21:12 AM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: SeekAndFind

recruits most often cite generous pay and benefits as the reason for signing papers.

The most pay I received in the Army (1966) was $300 a month, that was with jump pay and combat pay (and no taxes).

I will admit I did not have to worry about housing, food or medical :-).

Back then they paid you in cash! First month in Viet Nam while we were out on patrol the pay master flew out set up a table and we stood in line to receive our pay. Of course it was not in US dollars but military script. As soon as I could I set it up so most of my pay was sent home and just kept a little for a few luxuriates. at the PX.


25 posted on 08/01/2022 3:22:02 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Maris Crane

The personnel problems are only exacerbated by the forcible discharge of some 260,000 active duty personnel for “failure to comply” with orders to get the COVID-19 mRNA injection protocol. This is in addition to the individuals, deceased or discharged “for medical reasons” because of adverse reactions to having received the injection.

Enough with the experimentation. We have a military effectiveness about on a par with the Russian Federation, if not below. “Hollowed out” does not begin to describe the present morale and readiness deficits within the ranks.


26 posted on 08/01/2022 3:38:13 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Of course it was not in US dollars but military script scrip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip

Regards,

27 posted on 08/01/2022 4:16:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pentagon brass are a woke joke who like to play make believe and nobody respects.


28 posted on 08/01/2022 4:20:24 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: alexander_busek

Thanks for the correction.


29 posted on 08/01/2022 4:29:14 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

thoroughly modern woke milley is quite the recruiter


30 posted on 08/01/2022 4:30:05 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Persevero

+1


31 posted on 08/01/2022 4:31:16 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: alloysteel

This November is SOOOOOO important.

WE MUST get people in Washington who know what they are doing and are able to set things right.


32 posted on 08/01/2022 4:49:46 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: SeekAndFind

By their actions, the woketard Pentagon officials, including the SecDefComPoop, have betrayed the United States of America.


33 posted on 08/01/2022 4:58:55 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Lumper20

I had a much different experience as your regular infantry. Over the Co B 1/508 PIR, 82d, our unit was busy taking home 10-12 and then 11-13 division level 11B squad drills, while my mortar platoon got the highest score in Division by over 10 points. Then I went back to Dayton with an assignment to Co C 11th SF USAR and due to factory work and missing that stuff full time went back to the Division. I loved the Army. It took me 12 years to wonder how or why I ended up at XVIII Corps HQ as SGS NCOIC, but by then I knew I had to get back to Division again;)


34 posted on 08/01/2022 5:03:52 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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To: qaz123

WOKE Pentagon military ‘leaders’ need to recruit at DC’s private schools. The children of ‘elites’ should be prime pickings hungering to serve their country. /s


35 posted on 08/01/2022 5:06:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Every large city run by democrats is a hellhhole...IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT FOR THE COUNTRY?)
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To: SeekAndFind
The wokeness is the result of the military bringing in consultants starting decades ago to advise them on the widening gap between the military and society which has impacted recruiting and retention.

This is the same military that teaches junior officers that they can't delegate away morale problems.

We're three decades into it and the result is a senior military that are unwilling or unable to solve the problems they created. There is no room for woke in the military.

36 posted on 08/01/2022 5:22:46 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

Who has formed the backbone of the US military for 250 years? White Males.

Who disproportionally fills out the ranks of the tip of the spear combat units? White Males.

Who suffered injuries and deaths at twice their rate of the population (which gives you an idea of how White a lot of the combat units are)? White Males.

Where does the military obtain fully half of their recruits? The South.

Who do they demonize above all others? Straight Southern White Males.

Now they can’t meet their recruitment goals. Shocking!


37 posted on 08/01/2022 5:27:37 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SeekAndFind

Just like the rest of government; a complete culling of all woke and activist minded people must be purged from the ranks to fix it. Nothing less will do.

If it were up to me I’d say ban all democrats from holding office but they would just pose as republicans just like the RINO’s do today.


38 posted on 08/01/2022 5:55:11 AM PDT by Boomer ( George Orwell: “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” )
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To: Maris Crane
I seriously doubt a change in the administration or congress will have any long term effect on the US military. Still, we must try to change the administration.

Austin, Milley, and many of their ‘chosen’ will remain, as well as most of the DOD civilian career bureaucrats. Probably 90%+ of those bureaucrats are democrats. The senior military (pentagon) officers and Staff NCOs are going along just to get to retirement.

IMHO.

USMC 1971-1981. Old Corps

39 posted on 08/01/2022 6:13:40 AM PDT by Tahoe3002 (Yes, indeed!)
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To: Mark17

Good on you, Mark. (Let’s hope the next upgrade isn’t to queen size beds.)


40 posted on 08/01/2022 6:18:09 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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