Biden’s Pentagon can’t recruit new
soldiers and that threatens us all
Fox News,
by
Thomas W. Spoehr
&
Ken Hartman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/13/2023 12:12:46 AM
America’s All Volunteer Force turns 50 this year. Since 1973, the U.S. military has, with rare exceptions, met its annual recruitment goals and improved the quality of the force.
Now, however, it is mired in its worst recruiting stretch in history. Last year, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 25% and already predicts it will miss again in 2023. Ditto the Air Force and Navy.
Officials cite numerous reasons for the shortfall: low unemployment, a smaller pool of young people qualified to serve, declining public confidence in the military and more. Whatever the reasons, these recruiting failures portend trouble for military readiness.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/13/2023 12:20:24 AM (No. 1490722)
Two young nephews got out of the Marine Corps in the last year and a half.
Lots more bailing out, and few joining for the lunatic forces these leftist are creating.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/13/2023 12:21:24 AM (No. 1490723)
Maybe there is hope for the younger patriots among us after all. Keep your powder dry to deal with our domestic enemies. Too many have died for nothing overseas.
25 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Moritz55 6/13/2023 12:33:29 AM (No. 1490726)
Every year at the local high school graduation ceremony, students are recognized who are going to a military academy or are enlisting in a branch of the military. Usually, there are about a dozen. This year, there were only four.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
plomke 6/13/2023 12:46:53 AM (No. 1490728)
Don't worry.
A military lead by a senile paedophile plagiarist with bad teeth and made up of fake general officers,MS13 gangbangers,trannys,and over weight snowflakes will still put the fear of god into Putin and Xi.
After they stop laughing at us...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/13/2023 12:48:06 AM (No. 1490729)
Joey and the demonrats call to pervert the military has resulted in low recruiting. Who would have guessed?
24 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 6/13/2023 12:52:02 AM (No. 1490732)
Young men have always joined the military out of a sense of patriotism. They expect to learn to fight and use whatever weapons are necessary to protect and defend their country.
Instead, they are bombarded with "wokeness", and it just leaves them disgusted and feeling useless. I have known at least 5 young men who would have made amazing career military men (2 Marines, 1 Airforce, and 2 Navy). But every one of them got out after one tour, and they all talked about the homosexual garbage that they were forced to endure as the main reason they just couldn't stay in. What a loss for our country!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/13/2023 1:49:36 AM (No. 1490749)
Reasons given are bogus. Number one is loss of confidence in the incompetent Commander in Chief and the possibility that he will send the US Military to fight in property disputes in foreign countries to keep the bribes coming in.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/13/2023 3:50:55 AM (No. 1490767)
Warriors are not supposed to be politically correct individuals sensitive to their fellow soldiers pronouns. They are to be a fighting force to be feared. When your peers are wearing panties under their uniform, confidence that they will have your back is lacking. Young men are not going to want to defend the country when pronouns are more important than readiness. Who can blame them?
26 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 6/13/2023 4:00:32 AM (No. 1490769)
What happened in Afghanistan alone would stop my from enlisting.
Why fight for a country that puts politics over the safety of te members of the military?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/13/2023 4:05:32 AM (No. 1490771)
Threatens us...how? It may impact our ability to go to other countries and wage war?
Aren't we getting sick of doing that for the last 80 years? Let's just stay here.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 6/13/2023 5:10:05 AM (No. 1490793)
The CCP has us where they want us thanks to the Demoncrats.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
5 handicap 6/13/2023 6:07:45 AM (No. 1490802)
Don't ask don't tell was the first nail in the coffin! There is very little left of what was a country worth fighting for...Alas!
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Sanchin 6/13/2023 7:12:32 AM (No. 1490815)
Who would want to defend much less die for the values embraced and promoted by the United States today? This is not the country our founders created nor the country our ancestors defended in two world wars.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/13/2023 7:13:42 AM (No. 1490816)
What sane, mature white Christian/conservative young man or woman would want to join just to be lectured for four years on how hateful you are?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/13/2023 7:20:33 AM (No. 1490818)
It would be amusing if young people demanded an addendum to their contract stating that if they are ever subjected to critical race theory indoctrination, the concept of inherited, generational ethnic guilt, informed of their "privilege", or have transgenderism explained to them, then the following day they can begin outprocessing.
They get an honorable discharge and are paid in lump sum the amount remaining on their enlistment.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/13/2023 7:28:35 AM (No. 1490823)
Fox News just can't seem to figure out why military recruitment is so low. Meanwhile the White House just celebrate 'Pride" Month.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/13/2023 7:33:00 AM (No. 1490828)
Currently our greatest enemy is the US Government. Why would anybody want to join the wrong side?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
broken01 6/13/2023 8:22:17 AM (No. 1490862)
The Afghanistan debacle was bad enough. When that fool posing as my Commander-in-Chief stood there checking his China bought watch while 13 dead soldiers came home was disgusting and pathetic. I have a nephew who's a junior in high school. He's considering going into the USMC. I told him and his dad to please reconsider that. Due to the fact that we now have a president who cares more for transgendered buffoons and illegal alien criminals than active duty and retired military.
10 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/13/2023 8:53:26 AM (No. 1490880)
I was drafted in 1968 to go to a foreign land for the likes of a dumb democrat politician and a used car salesman, Robert McNamara who made his friends rich on a useless war. Never again and the youth of today should know that the military is on the ropes with dumb down AA generals doing social experiments with the military. I don't want my grandsons involved in the likes of a fraud president who is gay obsessed and senile. I have a friend who is getting out with his twenty years of Army service taking his experience with him. Don't let American blood spilled for the clowns in Washington let Hunter Biden lead the charge.
8 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
varkdriver 6/13/2023 8:55:12 AM (No. 1490881)
Similar what Commies did in France in the 1920s and 30s. The demoralized French Army was unwilling to fight fiercely when the Wermacht approached. Our own national leaders are doing the job here.
And #8, those panty-boys actually DO have your back, just not the way you would think (or like!)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LadyVet 6/13/2023 11:08:26 AM (No. 1490989)
Let's face it, the reason HS counselors do not recommend the military is because they are almost all women. Liberal women. There are some exceptions to the rule, of course. If it were not for male teachers, who are usually coaches, there would be little male influences.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/13/2023 11:54:29 AM (No. 1491032)
This guarantees the revolution Leftists want so badly will GO VERY BADLY for them!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
dwa 6/13/2023 11:59:12 AM (No. 1491042)
The "reasons" given by the DOD are total BS. The main reason is the policies of the affirmative action SecDef, who identifies patriots as white supremacists, and the woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the other Chiefs of the Services who are pushing the woke agenda . Who would want to serve in such an organization where if you don't comply with this radical BS or as a patriot you are ID'd as a white supremacist you can go to jail or get a dishonorable discharge.
8 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/13/2023 12:42:09 PM (No. 1491085)
What sharp young person who is a member of the traditional warrior classes is enamored in joining up in Biden’s woke military? Obviously not very many indeed as it being shown in the recruiting shortfalls. There is a big difference between the warrior class that comes face to face with the enemy on a battlefield, and others who are joining the military to join a particular favored social group and to push a woke political agenda.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/13/2023 12:45:32 PM (No. 1491088)
Lousy Leadership
Yesterdays great generals have been removed and a group of Democrat sycophants now run the military,.
5 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/13/2023 2:09:12 PM (No. 1491136)
Nobody wants to follow leadership going the wrong way.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/13/2023 2:12:05 PM (No. 1491138)
I have one son. He’s the first in his lineage in five generations that did not serve in the U.S. armed forces, and the first in four generations that didn’t fight in a war. That’s just fine with me. I wouldn’t want him anywhere near our armed forces given the state they’re in.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 6/13/2023 2:14:39 PM (No. 1491139)
And a niece will be getting out of the USAF in a few months, too.
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If a Marine Recruiter misses quota 3 months in a row they are relieved. I’d say it’s time to relieve the service chiefs when services miss mission. But in reality the fault lies with Biden.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
billa57 6/13/2023 2:52:54 PM (No. 1491151)
They only want gay's and homosexual's, trans and discontents, that are bitter and hateful and who are willing to turn on the citizens of the US that do not except the dictatorship.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
rochow 6/13/2023 6:45:10 PM (No. 1491324)
Get rid of the moron Austin, that's a start. Followed by blinken blanken liar and the stumbling word salad mumbling traitor bidet. It might turn things around. No soldier wants to look at this WH resident showing his ass and on the floor. Young men don't follow those kind of morons.
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