With Few Able and Fewer Willing, U.S. Military Can’t Find Recruits

[rebewranger]

With Few Able and Fewer Willing, U.S. Military Can’t Find Recruits
Dave Philipps - 2h ago
 

FOUNTAIN, Colo. — The local Army recruiting station was empty. The normally reliable recruiting grounds at the nearby Walmart were a bust. With the Army still thousands of soldiers short of its recruiting goal, the station commander, Sgt. First Class James Pulliam, dressed head to toe in camouflage, scanned a strip-mall parking lot for targets.
 
He spotted a young woman getting out of a car, and put on his best salesman smile.

“Hey, how’d you know I was going to be here today!” the sergeant said with an affable Carolina drawl, as if greeting an old friend. “I’m going to help put you in the Army!”

These are tough times for military recruiting. Almost across the board, the armed forces are experiencing large shortfalls in enlistments this year — a deficit of thousands of entry-level troops that is on pace to be worse than any since just after the Vietnam War. It threatens to throw a wrench into the military’s machinery, leaving critical jobs unfilled and some platoons with too few people to function.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/with-few-able-and-fewer-willing-u-s-military-can-t-find-recruits/ar-AAZzzJB?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6e1705a9e8494741a0f5768bee41e91d

[sneakypete]

Who can blame young people for not wanting to join the military these days?

[Fishrrman]

Well, they could always reinstate something called "the draft".
For women as well as men, this time around, eh...?

[sneakypete]

Well, they could always reinstate something called "the draft".
For women as well as men, this time around, eh...?

@Fishrrman

Well,if nothing else,that would sure be entertaining.

[Bigun]

Who can blame young people for not wanting to join the military these days?

  Nobody wants to serve in the woke mess it has become now.  Yet one more thing the left has purposefully destroyed and the price we pay for allowing that to happen will be heavy indeed!

[DB]

Went woke and then broke... Duh...

The left destroys everything it gets control of.

[240B]

Who can blame young people for not wanting to join the military these days?

I wouldn't recommend it. In civilian life if you 'disagree' or 'disobey', you can be fired. Fair enough.
In the military if you disagree or disobey you can wind up with severe and bizarre 'punishments' which can last for weeks or months.

Or you can even wind up in jail. The military is a compulsory environment. Where you are 'forced' to do what you are told, and to believe whatever Mrs. General Milley tells you to believe, from one day to the next.



Chaaarge Everybody! but try not to get mud on your shoes!

[sneakypete]

Went woke and then broke... Duh...

The left destroys everything it gets control of.

@DB

Well,even though they will never admit it,that IS their goal. The must destroy the system in existence now in order to replaces it with the slavery of communism. Of course they won't call it Communism,but that IS what it will be.

[sneakypete]

I wouldn't recommend it. In civilian life if you 'disagree' or 'disobey', you can be fired. Fair enough.
In the military if you disagree or disobey you can wind up with severe and bizarre 'punishments' which can last for weeks or months.

Or you can even wind up in jail. The military is a compulsory environment. Where you are 'forced' to do what you are told, and to believe whatever Mrs. General Milley tells you to believe, from one day to the next.



Chaaarge Everybody! but try not to get mud on your shoes!

@240B

Am I the only one that gets steamed when they see that multiple award CIB on his chest?

AFAIK,the SOB was always in staff positions anytime he was attached to an infantry unit,and never even served on a team in SF.

In other words,I SUSPECT they are administrative awards given to him due to his political connections.