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2021-05-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

71% Of Eligible Gen-Zers Don't Qualify For Military Due To Obesity, Criminal Records And Other Reasons

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Posted by Clem 2021-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Only 29% of Generation Z eligible for military service because of obesity, lack of high school diploma, or a criminal record...
Clickbait. If the Government wants more warm bodies most of those are ignored. Obesity? One to three weeks of more exercise. No High School diploma? Criminal Record? Both are waived at the government's pleasure.

Posted by magpie 2021-05-11 01:34|| 2021-05-11 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2

During NAM these issues did not bother the DOD.
In fact many a judge offered a thug the ARMY/MARINES/NAVY as an alternative to prison.

Sure there were a bunch of 365/200's. But my father and older brothers (both CSM's) also saw a lot of Duty Hut Supply types that performed support and Admin duties very well.

For those that screwed up again in service while in NAM, it was the LBJ. In the US it was a collection of Camps & Forts that used converted WWII wooden buildings w/o AC surrounded by Razor Wire for a Prison.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-05-11 05:40|| 2021-05-11 05:40|| Front Page Top

#3 ....DOD knew thirty years ago that this was going to happen. At that time, I was recruiting for the USAF in Akron, OH, and at least 60-75% of the people I talked to were DQ right off the bat.

And it's going to get worse. As we wokify the US military, they will find that a great many people they want to put in will be unable to read/comprehend their training (which, by the way, is set at a 6th grade comprehension level)or will be of a sufficiently criminal mindset that arming them would be the worst mistake we can make.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-11 06:04|| 2021-05-11 06:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The 70s show! drugs, race riots, AWOL, all coming for a new season. Notice any general officer types resigning/retiring in protest to the developments in DoD? I didn't either.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-11 08:54|| 2021-05-11 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Too much computer, game, and couch time?

Posted by JohnQC 2021-05-11 09:47|| 2021-05-11 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Obesity is easier to cure than the malnutrition that caused many WW2 inductees to be declared '4F' with bad teeth and the like.

Posted by magpie 2021-05-11 10:53|| 2021-05-11 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 So after reading this I went to our cafeteria to eat. As I looked around I was shocked, mainly because I had not been paying attention, at the levels of obesity. I'm over 60 and I consider myself fat. But once I looked around at the 20 to 35 year olds I realized I was the only one in any kind of fitness. There were a couple of small groups of vets that were in shape, but the rest were not just fat, they were 60 plus pounds heavy. We have a couple generations that wont live to 65. I think it safe to assume that investments into obese treatments will be a sound investment.

Posted by 49 Pan 2021-05-11 11:56|| 2021-05-11 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 who joined the Reserves with the help of her Vietnam-veteran father

Ummm....not doing the maths, or is the ol' dog gettin' some?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-11 12:12|| 2021-05-11 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 What's really sad is when I see youngsters, such as six- or seven-year-olds chubby.

But would a Gen-Z'er really consider the military as a career outside of just "needing a job", "paying for college", or "getting away from a miserable home environment"?

Back in the late 1980's, I remember one teenager who was overweight by plenty but wanted to be a Marine. Well, he was a success story. When he came back home on furlough, he was a lean, mean machine.

Posted by Clem 2021-05-11 13:04|| 2021-05-11 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I understand though the priority is making sure DIs do not use naughty language and/or hurt feelings.

Seriously.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-11 13:19|| 2021-05-11 13:19|| Front Page Top

#11 He said, "Kid, we only got
One question. Have you ever been arrested?"

hen he said "You to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W ... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
Where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
Committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
Looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
Rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!"

Posted by Glenmore 2021-05-11 13:48|| 2021-05-11 13:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Glenmore, great Alice's Restaurant reference.
Kids today won't get it.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-05-11 13:59|| 2021-05-11 13:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Some might say a certain segment of the Masons in the military is an element of organized crime.

Posted by Clem 2021-05-11 15:34|| 2021-05-11 15:34|| Front Page Top

#14 If you ask me the military needs its particular moral vacuums. As long as they're healthy there's a role for everyone.

The kind who go 'kill kill kill... guts and veins in my teeth' are the rarest and most valuable assets. Maybe they can't crochet or help vaccinate villages, but they are the shaft you use to shaft with.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-11 15:51|| 2021-05-11 15:51|| Front Page Top

#15

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-11 16:31|| 2021-05-11 16:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Good. They will be easier to conquer.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-05-11 20:42|| 2021-05-11 20:42|| Front Page Top

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