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77% of Americans too fat, mentally ill, or drug-addicted for military, Pentagon says
« on: April 21, 2023, 09:23:44 am »
77% of Americans too fat, mentally ill, or drug-addicted for military, Pentagon says

The US military is falling far short of its recruitment targets with a majority of potential recruits unfit for service due to being overweight or suffering mental health problems
 
ByMichael MoranAudience Writer
12:47, 21 APR 2023
 
The US military is in the grip of a recruitment crisis as most young Americans are too overweight, habitual drug users, or suffering from mental health problems.

The two fastest-growing barriers for army recruitment between 2013 and 2020 were mental health conditions and excess weight, leaving just 23% fit to join, a new report from the Pentagon found.

“When considering youth disqualified for one reason alone, the most prevalent disqualification rates are overweight (11%), drug and alcohol abuse (8%), and medical/physical health (7%),” the Pentagon’s Qualified Military Available Study of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 read.

Some 44% of rejected recruits were disqualified for multiple reasons rather than for only one issue.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/77-americans-fat-mentally-ill-29772417
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Re: 77% of Americans too fat, mentally ill, or drug-addicted for military, Pentagon says
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2023, 09:29:44 am »
Yeah, boy, let's keep those borders open and drugs flowing.  Let's keep making kids more dependent on government so they don't know how to be independent.  We can't forget to keep all the government/media hysterias' terrorizing kids into mental illness. In particular, let's not hold kids accountable for their behaviors so they don't know how to follow rules.
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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

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Re: 77% of Americans too fat, mentally ill, or drug-addicted for military, Pentagon says
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2023, 02:14:55 pm »
Another democrat success story!
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Re: 77% of Americans too fat, mentally ill, or drug-addicted for military, Pentagon says
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2023, 06:01:29 pm »
Look at it this way.

When the time comes for the new Heartland Republic to go to war with the DCommunists of Washington, chances are "the fit" recruits are largely going to already be white guys "on the Heartland side".

Who are the DComminists gonna draft to fight for them?
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