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2022-03-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Army Reducing Its Numbers in Face of Recruiting Difficulties

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-31 08:10|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 “very tight labor market”

Among the woke. When you abandoned the traditional source of recruits by calling them white supremacists, your appeal became more selective.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-31 10:20|| 2022-03-31 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 "There is a sense among the American public that the military is becoming increasingly political and that topics such as race and gender equity, critical race theory, and wokeism in general are commanding more attention, at the cost of readiness,” he said.

Ya don't say...

Posted by Sonny tse Tung6664 2022-03-31 10:53|| 2022-03-31 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Who wouldn't want to serve under CiC Biden, Lloyd Austin and "White Rage" Milley?

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-31 11:20|| 2022-03-31 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Who wouldn't want to serve under CiC Biden, Lloyd Austin and "White Rage" Milley?

.. and to be left in the lurch in Afghanistan, or be called up to fight a nuclear war over another pointless shithole country that doesn't concern us at all

Posted by Dopey Elmoluter3767 2022-03-31 11:50|| 2022-03-31 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 “We don’t anticipate that it is a lasting change,” Camarillo said. “It is something that we hope to bring back up over the course of the fight up. And it’s something that we certainly think is reflective of what we hope to be transient conditions in the labor market.”

Transitory then ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-31 11:55|| 2022-03-31 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6
Liberalism and their Social This or That causes, does not attract warriors.

Doubt it? look at the results of Liberalization of the Dutch Army 20 years ago what they have now?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-03-31 11:59|| 2022-03-31 11:59|| Front Page Top

#7 the Army last year launching animated recruitment advertisements

"Dad I'm studying for the avsab..."

"I did not raise you to be some kind of pervert!"

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-31 12:06|| 2022-03-31 12:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Transitory then ?
Yeah - like "transitory" inflation

Posted by Dopey Elmoluter3767 2022-03-31 12:09|| 2022-03-31 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Take a look at the DoD Office of Diversity Issue Paper on Propensity to Serve if you want to see it broken down with a Diversity and Gender Focus.
YJCMTSU!

PDF: Propensity to serve in Armed Forces

Link fixed. It was breaking the Burg.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-31 12:28|| 2022-03-31 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 %20Propensity%20to%20Serve%20in%20Armed%20Forces.pdf

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-31 12:40|| 2022-03-31 12:40|| Front Page Top

#11 ...What's interesting to this former recruiter (USAF, 89-93) is that they cut the numbers.

USAF Recruiting Service was flatly homicidal when it came to the numbers, and the other services were worse. You NEVER cut the numbers - drive the recruiters to drink, divorce, career destruction, breakdown and suicide, but you NEVER cut the numbers.

Something ain't right here. I just can't figure out what it is.

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-31 12:45|| 2022-03-31 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 they want to weaken the military Mike, most people I know who were in/active don't want to deal with the bullshit of wokeism or the vax. Just another part of the lefts agenda to weaken us as a nation.

Posted by Chris 2022-03-31 12:54|| 2022-03-31 12:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Same reason there are 5 million more unfilled jobs than unemployed people in the US today. If you don't feel a need to be a clerk at Dollar General because Uncle Sugar will pay you to stay home, why would you sign up for a hitch in any branch of the armed services?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-31 12:56|| 2022-03-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 If they have to tell you not to drop the soap in the shower...

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-31 13:03|| 2022-03-31 13:03|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ The old days, when "atheists in foxholes" was the main worry. Good times.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-31 13:18|| 2022-03-31 13:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Something ain't right here I just can't figure out what it is.
RAND has probably told the brass they don't have a prayer of hitting their numbers given the perfect shitstorm of all the damaging stuff Biden has done to American society.

Before the Biden wrecking ball they were already in deep do-do because of the sorry state of our youts: to fat, too dumb, too medicated and too many criminals.

But now even the best and most patriotic kids want nothing to do with a US military that keeps losing and promoting losers. No decent and ambitious person would want to sign up for Milley and Austin's traveling freak show.

We're back to 1975 in that sense, with no Reagan in sight. Five years minimum before we get out of the hole we're in

Posted by Cheans Hatrack3321 2022-03-31 13:25|| 2022-03-31 13:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Maybe they should concentrate on recruiting transgenders/potential transgenders. There sure seem to be a lot of them these days. /sarcasm

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-03-31 13:38|| 2022-03-31 13:38|| Front Page Top

#18 We're back to 1975 in that sense, with no Reagan in sight.
DeSantis?

Posted by Unineck Johnson1766 2022-03-31 15:31|| 2022-03-31 15:31|| Front Page Top

#19 In part, it is my observation that they are becoming more selective (In order to do their best in keeping some semblance of military efficacy and cohesion?).

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