Every branch of the military is struggling to make its 2022 recruiting goals, officials say With a r

[rebewranger]

Every branch of the military is struggling to make its 2022 recruiting goals, officials say
With a record low number of Americans eligible to serve, and few of those willing to do it, this "is the year we question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force,” said an expert.
 
June 27, 2022, 4:30 AM EDT
By Courtney Kube and Molly Boigon

Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals, say multiple U.S. military and defense officials, and numbers obtained by NBC News show both a record low percentage of young Americans eligible to serve and an even tinier fraction willing to consider it.

The officials said the Pentagon’s top leaders are now scrambling for ways to find new recruits to fill out the ranks of the all-volunteer force. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks consider the shortfall a serious issue, said the officials, and have been meeting on it frequently with other leaders.

“This is the start of a long drought for military recruiting,” said Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank. He said the military has not had such a hard time signing recruits since 1973, the year the U.S. left Vietnam and the draft officially ended. Spoehr said he does not believe a revival of the draft is imminent, but “2022 is the year we question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force.”

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/every-branch-us-military-struggling-meet-2022-recruiting-goals-officia-rcna35078

[rebewranger]

All the military needs to do to have stations overflowing with recruits is to put in writing the military will pay for all the CRT materials they want, the same with LGBTQ rights and love stories.  Add the communist manifesto, the works of Cloward and Piven, plus the works of Howard Zinn and you have a powerful attraction.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Columbia Bugle
@ColumbiaBugle

Have to get vaxxed, have to salute men in women’s uniforms, have to endure lectures on “anti racism” and LGBT, and may end up defending polling places in some far-flung hellhole or one of Biden’s emergency abortion clinics in your own hometown.

Not exactly a great sales pitch…

9:32 AM · Jun 28, 2022   Twitter for iPhone

[Right_in_Virginia]

Rep. Mike Johnson
@RepMikeJohnson

Over 40% of 18-24 year old men have refused the COVID vaccine. This is the Army’s target demographic.

In the Southern U.S. — which produces nearly half of enlistments — the proportion of unvaccinated young men is even higher.

10:28 AM · Jun 28, 2022·Twitter Web App

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

BREAKING: Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet its 2022 recruiting goal

Only 9% of those Americans 17-24 eligible to serve in the military have any inclination to do so.

Only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join

- NBC

10:07 PM · Jun 27, 2022·Twitter Web App

[GtHawk]

I have a grandnephew who has been trying to enlist in the Navy but so far they are holding him off. He had decent grades, Boy Scout, liberal parents and schooled in the Berkley, CA schools so it would seem he was perfect for todays Navy. The only thing I can see holding him back is a lack of melanin.

[Fishrrman]

Why would conservative, traditional-minded young men want to sign up for a military in which the leadership now seems determined to attack them for both what they are (hetero males) and what they believe?