The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army >Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years.
>An internal Defense Department survey obtained by NBC News found that only 9% of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so, the lowest number since 2007.
>Overall confidence in U.S. government institutions is also decreasing, and that has hit the U.S. military as well. In 2021 the annual Reagan National Defense Survey, conducted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, found that just 45% of Americans had a great deal of trust and confidence in the military, down 25 points since 2018.
To tackle the growing crisis, the Pentagon is reviewing some of the more than 250 disqualifiers for service, including some medical conditions that have historically required recruits to obtain a waiver for service or kept individuals out of uniform completely, according to multiple defense and U.S. military officials.
For example, in the past ailments like asthma and ADHD could disqualify someone from serving if the recruit had symptoms after their 13th or 14th birthdays. But now the Pentagon is reviewing whether individuals who have been asymptomatic for a shorter period of time could join without a waiver.
The military is also discussing allowing service members to use platforms like TikTok to attract recruits. In 2020, President Donald Trump ordered a ban on the use of the social media platform because the Chinese company that owns it collects biometric information on users.
“We have to be where the recruits are, and TikTok is one of the biggest social media platforms in the world,” one defense official involved in personnel issues said.
The Pentagon is also looking to increase recruitment by targeting more influencers like parents, teachers and coaches, by creating recruiting stations with multiple services in them rather than service specific locations, and even moving recruiting offices to better neighborhoods, according to multiple U.S. military and defense officials.
The Pentagon may also put more effort into recruiting eligible DACA recipients, said officials.
Matthew Powell
The pentagon doesn't keep their promises and the VA is run by actual psychopaths. What are the benefits to being a veteran? Free shit at the supermarket? Less charges for participating in capitol riots?
Nathan Ross
Sorry I'd love to enlist but my unvaccinated status could make me a hazard to my immunocompromised comrades on the USS harver milk
Logan Cruz
I mean who the fuck would willingly fight for globohomo?
Nolan Carter
who gives a shit?
Nathaniel King
How about something as simple as putting White men back in the ads?
Cooper Williams
Train yourselves in Militia if you want to be a soldier. Stop believing that Talmudists will lead you anywhere but hell.
good. patriotism was always for retards or for those in power anyway. your country doesn't give a fuck about its average citizen which likely includes you.
Bentley Brooks
Who would want to serve under Biden and the leadership he put in place??? Have you seen the fucking trannie generals?
Christian Nguyen
I am going to be real pissed if a recrooter shows up at my door
Carter Adams
Well whe. You replace the population with low IQ subhumans that hate you it's no surprise. Little Juan Ramirez and Daquan Jackson don't want to join the military. Who'd a thunk it?
Liam Wilson
>spends all day on Any Forums telling Any Forums they don't care about the topics discussed on Any Forums
have some laxative pills around and when the recrooter comes swallow one and shit your pants, no one wants a poopie pants in their army
Henry Torres
Gee I fucking wonder why. The services have become actively hostile to their largest recruitment base and then wonders why no one wants to partake in their clown show.
No one wants the jab and not no one wants to serve with troons. 2019 had surplus recruits, gee, wonder why the drop off.
Cameron Murphy
You’re being paid to post this
He works for them and wants to catalog the responses
David Taylor
Patriotism isn't about supporting the government, chang. The most celebrated patriots, in fact, are remembered for fighting against it.
Brayden Mitchell
neocons unironically believe that they will still be able to do Bush era shit with the current year military, it's why it's hilarious when they beat their chests about invading Iran or whatever, like this army could not beat Saddam again lol
>their largest recruitment base I don't want people serving who are going to put God and Jesus and their pastor and their personal faith and their parallel society and their white nationalism before America. They can go make their own country somewhere else, this one is ours.
Josiah Thompson
Where the hell have you been?
Evan Bailey
This. Also western men should learn from their mistakes. During WW1 and WW2 alot of bullshit feminist garbage and other cancer got pushed through by women, while men died in rainy fields, with rats eating their eye sockets.
Lincoln Wood
This is not a bad thing wether they were woke or not
>Join military >Get deployed to some 3rd world shithole >Come back with ptsd >Can't work because unstable >Become homeless druggie >Military doesn't care about because discharged >An hero Sounds like a wonderful life
Noah Flores
Served Navy 2014-2022, everyone I know who’s been in for 4-12 years is set to leave. Keep in mind that these are highly skilled technical and mechanical jobs in senior or supervisory positions. The military is also about to face a major RETENTION problem. No new recruits and the people with training and experience are about to leave in droves.
Justin Russell
Yeah and more and more young men sign up for it, knowing that they'll get left out there to rot like every cannon fodder soldier in history. What's your point?
Cameron Taylor
You reap what you sew globohomo overlords If you completely fuck up our countries beyond recognition and steal our futures then no one is going to want to risk their lives fighting for your Starbucks and buttplugs
Jaxson Hernandez
>replace the army with foreign mercenaries has this ever worked out well for any empire in history? >he works for them and wants to catalog the responses if the army seriously doesn't know why they're having these problems then that's hilarious and I would love to talk to them at length, in rural communities the military has gone from a prestige thing that people would eagerly join at 18 to an absolute joke in just a few short years, it's honestly amazing how quick the turnaround has been. Like it used to be you'd see boomers at the football games who were vets actively trying to talk people into signing up as soon as they graduated, not army recruiters just old dudes shooting the shit and telling you it would be a good idea. Now though? We already saw a lot of the actual benefit of the military get dismantled, it's no longer a good financial deal, the VA is openly trying to kill people who use it, and you destroyed all the cultural respect it had by filling your ads and recruitment centers with fat black lesbians.
Isaac Morgan
The barrier they want to remove is the freedom to hire the best candidates
Owen Flores
nobody wants to spread (((democracy and freedom))) anymore because too many people are waking up
Asher Fisher
>4-12 years You mean the average turnaround time before they go work for contractors for 3x the pay for the same job?
Dylan Ward
>right wing kids in rural states have always overwhelmingly made up the backbone of the military >spend a decade telling them they're bigoted pieces of shit and should be women instead >appoint tranny freaks to lord over them >appoint diversity hire girlboss to lie for hunter biden the perfect example of lefty noveau riche excess and corruption as a role model >military loves video games, go figure, also spend that decade bagging on guys for playing them since gamergate >run propaganda for lesbian couples to draft their daughters since women really love going to foreign countries and killing people throughout history >all this on the same old foundation of no fault divorce that ensures you'll come home to empty house if you had a relationship before serving
They're running out of people stupid enough to fall for their bullshit, lol at them lowering standards again. I wonder if the left will start trying to draft prisoners soon like the true 'anti fascists' they are lol.
Ayden Perez
my brother was army from 2006-2014. made his way up to captain and left because of how pozzed it was getting, and that was almost 10 years ago.
Parker Myers
Stop whining, bitch. I've applied multiple times to become a Cmdr in shitposting on Any Forums but they never replied.
Nolan Gomez
"We have some great benefits for a chubby, white kid like you. For example, basic training is now concentrated into a sheboon screaming in your face about your white privilege. There are plenty of opportunities to march in gay pride parades, and if you decide to transition yourself, it's all paid for. Don't think you've missed the opportunity to serve Israel either, like your older brothers - we're actively working on the next opportunity to waste another several trillion."
Kevin Gomez
So they are willing to make the recruitment process much easier with a lot more degeneracy in order to meet their goals. Come the fuck on, this is literally the definition of a "slow collapse of an empire". They HAVE to be doing this on purpose
Isaiah Phillips
Project/McNamara's 100,000 2.0 when?
Sebastian James
Only a fucking retard would fight for USA in this day and age. USA is a nation run by kikes where niggers, faggots, trannies and whores are basically privileged class that can do no wrong.
Aiden Jackson
I was in the army for 4 years for patroitism. I was wrong. I was a goverment slave for 4 years. Pair that with the afganistan retreat and how it treated americans left behind, I don't give a fuck. The goverment is evil, greedy and corrupt. I am glad everyone is seeing that. Add in how our potato in chief is senile how the middle class keeps getting poorer. What reason do I have to support or tell the younger generations about the military? Also I want them to be forced to draft again, I will fucking murder cops and goverment officials in the streets if they do.
Jack Jones
Gets Seroquel from head doc to deal with body count. Generalization fallacy in practice.
Gabriel Davis
BAD GOYIM WHAT IS ISRAEL SUPPOSED TO DO? FIGHT FOR ITSELF?
Austin Brooks
You didn’t answer the question
Who gives a shit?
Aaron Sullivan
I wanted to enlist for fucking years (I wanted to go into the Marines and/or a SOF unit), but it just got harder and harder to rationalize with each passing year. For me, the writing was on the wall when they allowed women into ground combat roles; every branch except the USMC capitulated immediately (and the Army even put on a big show where they gave a bunch of women a free pass through Ranger School), and the SECNAV dismissed the year-long study the USMC did demonstrating women were markedly inferior in ground combat roles, all while admitting he didn't even bother reading the study. As the years went on and the woman experiment was totally floundering, the DoD just doubled down, reducing standards across the board (including SOF units, which milfags were heralding as the "last bastion" of serious military units), forcing the USMC to integrate their boot camp, etc.
Then you had the fags and the trannies (and all the pathetic recruiting material aimed at them), the right-wing witch-hunts, the pathetic defeat in Afghanistan, and finally, the vaxfaggotry. And, of course, over the years, the realization that the US government (and, by extension, its enforcement arm) was a thoroughly jewish institution spreading faggotry throughout the world. I had hoped maybe Trump would uncuck the military, but no such luck.
And then you have shit like this. What's the solution to the recruiting crisis after alienating every patriotic young white man who might have wanted to serve? Just recruit even more gutter trash to fill the ranks! Throw a bunch of illegals in there too!
Camden Smith
The adventures in socialism scheme. Many such cases.
>Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service's academic test more than 10 times over the past decade >Now, at age 29, Andrews thinks he has a real shot to pass, thanks to a new Army program that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards. They're trying to get a 30 year old who has failed their entrance exam 10 goddamn times, that's not scraping the barrel that's licking the fucking floor.
Ryan Phillips
ACCELERATE
Mason Martinez
Yes, much higher pay with much lower working hours and no deployment or extra bullshit like watchstanding, living in a coffin, or fire drills.
Pretty much why I left plus reason above
Brayden Peterson
Foreigners
Dominic Stewart
Tamale niggers; rainbow niggers; white power niggers; cripple and bloody niggers. All homegrown ISIS. But please fight for Israel and oil profit margins.
Jace James
Non Americans
Carson Bell
Didn´t you read OP ? US Mil is finding it hard to find new recruits. Let the mutts and troons like you go and fight.
But I thought all those trannies and diversity hires you've been catering to would be more than willing to sign up? You don't need patriotic rural white men right?
Gavin Wilson
Right so maybe before you losers start whining about troons and jiggaboos maybe you can whine to your elected leaders telling them that people need good wages, health care, benefits, and retirement, and then there will be a line a mile long to the recruiting office.
Blake Ortiz
Why do you think they allowed women in the military? They are strapped for recruits and hence lowered the standards. What about instead, we don't treat American lives as expendable?
Aaron Sullivan
>VA is run by actual psychopaths >be my father >get drafted during the Vietnam War >get exposed to Agent Orange and all sorts of other horrifically toxic shit >is fully aware of the cancer risks of this >talks to some VA doctor about being screened >you don't seem to have any symptoms right now so there's no reason to test for any of that >after all if we catch it before it's terminal we actually have to spend money treating it Meanwhile my mother genuinely cannot comprehend why neither of us support making government-run healthcare the norm in this country.
Nolan Richardson
United states tranny corps reporting for duty SIR!
Jason Morales
Double the pay and wallah there your numbers are up again
Gabriel Perez
ill join if we went to war against blacks and hispanics/south america.
