U.S. Army's Recruitment Problem Just Reached
a Whole New Level
Townhall,
by
Spencer Brown
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/27/2024 3:18:25 PM
The United States Army is being forced to reduce the size of its force — as a predictable result of failing to meet recruitment and retention goals — by roughly five percent, according to the Pentagon in what the Department of Defense prefers to call more of a reshuffle as a result of what officials say is a "significantly overstructured" service.It seems as though a time in which Iran-backed terrorists are on the march across the Middle East, including attacking U.S. bases and killing American service members — and following Biden's handover of Afghanistan to the Taliban who have returned the country to an oasis for other radical Islamist
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 2/27/2024 3:22:21 PM (No. 1666408)
Really!! When will they cashier the political generals and promote the warrior colonels?? We're going to be in trouble soon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/27/2024 3:25:35 PM (No. 1666411)
Pentagon is now saying they have too many people in the Army to try to make up an excuse for not being able to recruit.
Overstructured by Aunt's patoot. The Army is under structured , those men are needed, but the American males of military age cannot see it an advantage to them to be ordered by the current Commander in Chief. And who can blame them?
Look at what he has done to the command structure. Why get killed in one of these idiots mistakes.
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I personally regret allowing the neocons to ruin my body and waste my youth by stupidly serving in the US Army.
Add to that now systemic discrimination against whites, males, Jews, Christians, and conservatives, plus supporting woke perverts, you’d have to be insane to serve in the military.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/27/2024 3:31:58 PM (No. 1666419)
They can do without all the woke officers and Generals, that should be about 5%.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rochow 2/27/2024 3:43:47 PM (No. 1666431)
Has anyone seen or heard from this piece of dog pooh called Austin lately. Still somewhere in intensive care? Or giving new race instructions?? Only a dirt bag like the vegetable in the WH, who probably does not know who he is or what Austin is supposed to do, appoints this dumb jerk and is unable to replace him. He ran out of morons to be appointed to his clown administration.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
plomke 2/27/2024 4:03:27 PM (No. 1666444)
Actively discouraging straight white males for persons of indeterminate sex and/or background wouldn't have anything to do with being unable to achieve recruitment goals would it???
Squandering several generations of American youth in Asia Minor/Indochina doesn't help either...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 2/27/2024 4:07:58 PM (No. 1666451)
They intend to "solve" the recruitment problem by filling our military with battalions of illegal aliens, who will have no allegiance to the constitution and will not hesitate to shoot real American citizens when martial law gets declared to "solve" the problem of MAGA.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ocho reales 2/27/2024 4:08:51 PM (No. 1666454)
During the Obama years they retired out many senior officers who didn't meet the new woke profile they were trying to instill. What was left were the remnants of a diminished officer corps more concerned with saving their own behinds by following the latest Washington philosophy than pursuing new strategic objectives. Those are the generals and admirals of today's services. The men in the ranks saw it too and got out after their first hitch and passed the word around. Potential recruits took notice. More people now go into the service to "get a job" rather than serve their country.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 2/27/2024 4:09:06 PM (No. 1666455)
'---as a predictable result of failing to meet recruitment and retention goals---' Well, finally we get an explanation for those thousands of military age Chinese men streaming in.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 2/27/2024 4:15:26 PM (No. 1666459)
I'm with #3. I wasted the strongest 20 years of my life defending this country. For what? This? While I was crawling in sand and mud and taking orders from idiots, we were being taken over by communists and kleptocrats in plain sight. I wouldn't do it again and discourage my grandkids from it every chance I get.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
3XALADY 2/27/2024 4:20:31 PM (No. 1666462)
Thank you all for your service.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/27/2024 6:44:54 PM (No. 1666531)
I was drafted in 1967, sent to Vietnam...where ARE MY REPARATIONS?
I was a SLAVE!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/27/2024 7:36:18 PM (No. 1666550)
Their current crop are men trying to tough it out to retirement, and punks who want a desk job, not carry a rifle.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimJr 2/27/2024 8:56:56 PM (No. 1666575)
Far, far too many Chiefs and far too few Indians.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 2/27/2024 10:25:23 PM (No. 1666605)
How refreshing. A story like this and we don't have the obligatory 75-year-old curmudgeon complaining about today's youth and calling for a draft.
Sorry, but today's youth aren't like the ones drafted into Vietnam. THAT generation grew up in the shadow of WW2, raised on war movies, and had adult men in the family who fought. It is a LOT harder to convince a kid today that being drone-striked in some Syrian outpost is somehow "defending America".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 2/28/2024 5:47:52 AM (No. 1666691)
The Army can do whatever it likes. It won't change the fact that no one wants to serve in a military that treats them like crap. For the same reason, no one wants to be a cop. Look for more terrorist attacks against us, as well as soaring crime. Welcome to Liberal run America.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/28/2024 7:27:06 PM (No. 1667158)
Convert the Pentagon to a prison for illegals and Deep Staters Fire 10,000 generals. Shut off the money.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/28/2024 8:52:28 PM (No. 1667206)
Go Woke, Get Dead. We're going to lose the next World War.
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