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2022-12-07 -Great Cultural Revolution

Navy to begin accepting more recruits from lowest aptitude percentile amid deepening recruiting crisis

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 ...This is what happens when institutional memory gets wiped every few decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-12-07 07:00|| 2022-12-07 07:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Just more time dealing with UCMJ, AWOL, drugs and other behavioral problems than actually spending time training and preparing to fight.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-07 07:03|| 2022-12-07 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems the services may have started a little earlier than reported.

DOD spends $91,000 on diversity seminars for Air Force Band

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-07 08:53|| 2022-12-07 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 So they're scraping the barrel and accepting Tier 3 Cat 4's and 5's now....wow.

I predict a lot 365/200's

Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-07 10:30|| 2022-12-07 10:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Marine Corps is waaaaay ahead on this subject.

Posted by crazyhorse 2022-12-07 12:58|| 2022-12-07 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Functional illiterates with the IQ of a potted plant. What in Gods name are they going to do in a machinery-based military branch?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-07 13:04|| 2022-12-07 13:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Democrats readily available.

Posted by Dale 2022-12-07 14:49|| 2022-12-07 14:49|| Front Page Top

#8 "Where is port?"

"Next to the Hennessy..whooouuuaahhhtt! Green smoking lamp on yet?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-07 15:49|| 2022-12-07 15:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Hmmm....someone thinks Putin's recruiting model is working?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-07 16:31|| 2022-12-07 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Functional illiterates with the IQ of a potted plant. What in Gods name are they going to do in a machinery-based military branch?

Turn the robots on and off. Gotta have a ~~man~~ person in the loop.

Posted by SteveS 2022-12-07 18:14|| 2022-12-07 18:14|| Front Page Top

#11 What Is a Solenoid Switch?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-07 18:22|| 2022-12-07 18:22|| Front Page Top

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