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The military is now recruiting Meal Team Six candidates
Posted on 7/27/22 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 7/27/22 at 7:57 pm
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Defense Department officials have been sounding the alarm for months: the military is going to miss its enlisted recruiting goals this year, and the Army may be in the worst spot of any of the services.
As of late June, according to an Army spokesperson, the Army had only hit 40% of its recruiting goal of 55,400 new soldiers for fiscal year 2022. The reasons contributing to plunging recruitment are complex, including more detailed medical screenings, a shrinking proportion of Americans eligible to serve, poor marketing practices, low civilian unemployment and more. In the face of the challenge, the service is pulling out nearly all the stops to ensure the ranks are filled.
According to Army releases, sources familiar with planning and documents obtained by Army Times, the service has:
*Slashed its end strength target by 12,000 troops and its recruiting goal by about 15,000.
*Relaxed its tattoo policies.
*Offered — then rescinded — enlistment to otherwise qualified applicants without high school education.
*Temporarily extended retention control points for enlisted troops of all ranks.
*Dramatically ramped up recruiting bonuses and introduced new contract options.
*Involuntarily extended 267 recruiters who were scheduled to return to the force and called 100 more former recruiters back to USAREC.
*Called nearly 250 new ROTC lieutenants to active duty months ahead of schedule. The officers are currently training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, before going to assist recruiting units.
*Alerted 2022 ROTC active duty-selected lieutenants whose training was scheduled to begin in fiscal 2023 that they will report to active duty on Sept. 1, totaling around 600 troops.
*Mobilized Army Reserve doctors in an effort to dig out of the waiver backlog caused by DoD’s new medical records screening system, MHS Genesis.
*Planned to establish a special training camp for applicants with low scores on qualifying exams and those who exceed body fat standards beyond the usual waiver threshold. The service is weighing a special task force at Fort Jackson to train them to the entry standard before they can go to basic.
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Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:03 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
We Comin
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:04 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
I like that idea of establishing a task force at Ft. Jackson for especially promising candidates who need a bit of help before they qualify for Basic Training.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:10 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Buddy of mine son, went to enlist but couldn't do 10 pull ups or 10 push ups. Took 6 months to get him up to par.
If they relaxed things anymore, these kids could sleep through it.
If they relaxed things anymore, these kids could sleep through it.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:12 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:16 pm to FATBOY TIGER
I've been occasionally following this guy who has been growing in the alt commentariat arena. This was his take on the recruitment issue.
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The military recruitment situation is such a catastrophe that the U.S. Army has thrown in the towel and now intends to lower its official “force strength” by roughly 30,000 (the final figure is still up in the air, it depends on how badly they do this year) for the next fiscal year.
The army’s latest spin is that it will be short 10,000 for this year, but that’s only after they quietly revised their annual target from roughly 70,000 to 60,000. Even accepting that revision…..
…..the estimated 10,000 shortage for this year still looks VERY optimistic, as it involves a rosy estimate for digging out of the hole and catching up between now and September 30th.
But hey, these people can revise any target at any time without skipping a beat, or batting an eye. In the USA, no one, no one lies worse than the military.
What’s funny, the Pentagon is spinning this as all due to only 23% (or something like that) of young people being physically, mentally, criminally / drug-wise, and educationally fit to serve.
Educationally, LOL. In the last month, the army scratched its requirement for a high school diploma or GED. Previously, if you didn’t graduate school, you had to take the GED test….
……to show that despite your educational non-attainment, you have enough discipline to get out of bed and go to a testing center to prove your basic literacy and numeracy.
Now, even that’s out the window. Translation: there are literally no educational requirements anymore. Obviously, the army’s recruit shortage doesn’t tell the full story, as quality will now be in the gutter.
(Not to mention, somehow, Marine and Navy recruiters are still doing just fine with the 23% of the youth fit to serve. Obviously the Marines still have their brand thing, while the Navy is seen as zero-risk by recruits not willing to be in any danger at all, ever.)
As for the other “fitness” requirements, what changed with American youth IN JUST THE LAST YEAR OR TWO? Nothing changed that fast with the kids. If something changed for the country as a whole, well, I dunno, what’s been going on, the last year or two?
Evidently, the “white trash” who normally staff the army, aren’t showing up in the needed numbers. Who could have guessed? It’s not as if anyone named Dreizin ever wrote about this in February 2021.
The LGBTQ+++, white guilt, and vakk-seen pushing wokesters now running the show—the ones who sent up to 20,000 national guards to prevent any hecklers from getting near the Brandon inauguration—forgot that dumb white people are the bedrock of the American Empire.
The USA cannot confidently, reliably “project its power” abroad DIRECTLY (I’m not talking about arming Ukrainians to die, I mean directly) without a large mass of cretins eager to cheer it on.
And those cretins are, VASTLY DISPROPORTIONATELY, from a certain demographic and of a certain voting affiliation. They were always fine to rah-rah the Empire, but they’re not cool with a Woke Empire that sh*ts on them.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:16 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
I have been in for 27 years and I talked my oldest son out of joining and going to the Naval Academy. No way would I recommend anyone join the military at this time.
This post was edited on 7/27/22 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:24 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
They used not to take people with flat feet. I bet they do now.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:28 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Imagine the waivers they are accepting now at MEPS
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:29 pm to LRB1967
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They used not to take people with flat feet. I bet they do now.
May have to setup recruiting offices in the prisons before it is all said and done.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:29 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Wokeness is a big part of the reason why
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:33 pm to papasmurf1269
I’m not handing over my sons to this disaster and disgrace that they have created.
No fricking way.
This is on them, not me.
No fricking way.
This is on them, not me.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:34 pm to Breauxsif
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:35 pm to Bunk Moreland
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The LGBTQ+++, white guilt, and vakk-seen pushing wokesters now running the show—the ones who sent up to 20,000 national guards to prevent any hecklers from getting near the Brandon inauguration—forgot that dumb white people are the bedrock of the American Empire.
quote:
And those cretins are, VASTLY DISPROPORTIONATELY, from a certain demographic and of a certain voting affiliation. They were always fine to rah-rah the Empire, but they’re not cool with a Woke Empire that sh*ts on them.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:36 pm to Bunk Moreland
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This was his take on the recruitment issue.
And there it is
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:37 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Well, I guess they are going to start begging white Southern males to enlist after all. I'd tell 'em 
We all wayciss don't you know?
We all wayciss don't you know?Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:40 pm to Bunk Moreland
I have a friend who is a captain in the Army and has a combat deployment with meritorious service medal but has been passed over for promotion twice. He’s a white male. Meanwhile every woman who is overweight and fails PT while avoiding dangerous deployments gets promoted left and right. The Army promotion boards are full woke and pushing out the best people.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:41 pm to Bunk Moreland
There is no place in today’s military for a straight white male.
Let them fight the next war with diversity and equity.
Let them fight the next war with diversity and equity.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:07 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:14 pm to Drizzt
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