« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Military Services Competing Over the Same Recruiting Pool of Less Than 500,000  (Read 150 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 177,162
Military Services Competing Over the Same Recruiting Pool of Less Than 500,000
« on: February 16, 2023, 10:34:38 am »
Military Services Competing Over the Same Recruiting Pool of Less Than 500,000
By: Heather Mongilio
February 14, 2023 10:52 PM
 

SAN DIEGO – The Marine Corps and other service branches are competing to attract the same 412,000 eligible Americans between the ages of 17 to 24, a Marine recruiting commander said Tuesday.

There are approximately 32.8 million Americans, part of Gen Z, but when looking at those who qualify for and want military service, that number quickly dwindles to 412,000, said Brig. Gen. Jason Morris, commander of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, speaking at the West 2023 conference hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA.

There are a number of disqualifiers that account for bringing the number to 412,000, Morris said, including obesity, drug use and mental illness.

“We encourage people to get help, but once they get help, it’s in their records and we have to sort through that,” he said.

https://news.usni.org/2023/02/14/military-services-competing-over-the-same-recruiting-pool-of-less-than-500000
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline DefiantMassRINO

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11,333
  • Gender: Male
Re: Military Services Competing Over the Same Recruiting Pool of Less Than 500,000
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2023, 11:03:29 am »
 ////00000////

Have the drill sargeants taken sensitivity training to deal with the current generation of snowflakes?

« Last Edit: February 16, 2023, 11:11:23 am by DefiantMassRINO »
Logged
"Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it’s entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." - Alan Simpson, Frontline Video Interview
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »