re: How hard does military recruiting numbers fall in the next few months?

I have less than a year left until retirement and I tell all my guys to get out while the getting is good. There is no incentive to stay in the military any more. Just have them pay for your degree and get the frick out before you get caught up in the next endless war. What's the point in fighting for a country who's leadership shits all over it's core values?

So you want them obligated for 8 years instead of 3-6?

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I wouldn't let my son or daughter join today unless they were going to one of the Academies or ROTC. Never as an enlisted soldier.

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Seriously? The service academies are more woke than most Ivy League schools, and the officer corps are filled with what the late David Hackworth referred to as "perfumed princes" who have become pawns and political animals looking for their next promotion. Most of the sanity left in the armed forces is among the enlisted ranks. You know, the ones who do the work and fight the wars.

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They will not be able to fight at all, but they will all dress faaaaabulously

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The perception among our enemies (most notably China and Iran) that America is neutered (pun intended) and our soldiers are an assortment of trannies and queers will propel us into a nasty military confrontation. First nasty military confrontation? Most likely Taiwan.

Creepy Joe Xidens' constant incoherent blabbering doesn't help either.

Elections have consequences.

"I have hairy legs" - Creepy Joe Biden

I think it's a natural progression in one's career but like all old times say, the Army now isn't the same as when I joined.

Who else had their mandatory extremism training yet? Had ours yesterday, someone asked why DoD is targeting conservatives and the discussion went off the rails.

I kept quiet, just trying to get to the finish line without being part of any drama.

Hard

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Had ours yesterday, someone asked why DoD is targeting conservatives and the discussion went off the rails.

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Would of loved to have seen this.

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We had a station of all Combat Arms folks. I am pretty sure we would have 11 in one month, but because we always made mission (+ sometimes a few more) they left us alone.

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I had far more issues with 79Rs (mostly reservists/AGR) than I ever had with detailed recruiters.

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We had a station of all Combat Arms folks. I am pretty sure we would have 11 in one month, but because we always made mission (+ sometimes a few more) they left us alone.

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I wasa Combat Arms (19K) in a small station. But I was in 3rd BDE...no one made mission there. So your planning guide, LRLs, etc better be right because going around 60-65% was the norm. Heck, since so many rolled donuts, if you put 1 GSA in a month, you were golden.

Tons of RIs everywhere. When you were 4 hrs from the closest military installation, Soldiers were off the chain.

Haha. I was in Indianapolis battalion, Bloomington Company from 04 to 07. The ONLY company that did well was Ft. Wayne back then. Louisville, Bloomington. South Bend and Indy Metro North and Indy Metro South never made mission.

You want to talk about some late nights and stressed out 79Rs back then.. And the height of the "TOXIC" USAREC. Of over 20 years as an M1A2 Abrams rank commander, the craziest things I ever saw was a detailed, voluntold recruiter.