In Case You Were Wondering Why Military Recruiting Is Down 40 Percent
Forced Vaccinations, Woke Nonsense, Mandatory CRT Training, etc, etc. I was a Navy recruiter following the 2008 recession. I had to beat the applicants off with a stick. So why is it that we're in a recession again, but we can't seem to find enough applicants for the military? Well, because we've betrayed the trust of our servicemembers, used them as guinea pigs for vaccines that don't work, forced them to wear masks for no reason and shoved CRT nonsense down their throats. Who would volunteer to serve under those circumstances?
Check out this snippet from PJ Media (link is below):
There’s no denying the huge drop-off in military recruitment. Every service is suffering and statistics show a worrying shortfall of as much as 40% for FY 2022.
Defense officials blame the slump on two causes: teen obesity rates and the tight labor market. It’s true that in the past, recruitment has been tied to the employment situation in the country. When times are tough, young men gravitate to the military. But that doesn’t explain the shortfall of 28,000 recruits for the army. The unemployment rate today sits at 3.6%—roughly the same as in 2019. Yet in 2019, the Army exceeded its recruiting goals.
The obesity rate has gone up slightly during the pandemic, but not enough to account for the lag in recruitment. A former U.S. Army armor officer and a board member of Vets on Duty, an advocacy organization, Jimmy Byrn, writes in the Wall Street Journal that only about a quarter of America’s youth meet current eligibility standards—and recent surveys show only 9% are even interested.
So what is it?
On his first day in office, President Biden rescinded a Trump-era executive order banning critical-race-theory training in the military. The changes made by senior commanders were nearly immediate. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandated that every military unit conduct a “stand-down” to confront “extremism in the ranks.” The chief of naval operations, Adm. Mike Gilday, added Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” to his professional reading list for sailors—never mind the book’s endorsement of racial discrimination and its charges that the institutions troops swear to protect are systemically racist.
Added to the mix has been divisive gender activism. The Navy has mandated gender-sensitivity training, and released a video encouraging sailors to closely police the use of pronouns as well as everyday language, declaring that those who fail to comply aren’t “allies” of their fellow sailors. Not only have such measures affected unit morale, according to some service members, they’ve also amounted to a form of antirecruitment for prospective enlistees. The Pentagon is appealing to activists at the expense of those most likely to serve.
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/07/30/is-a-woke-military-to-blame-for-lagging-recruitment-n1617053
