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8 years for Space Force

| February 26, 2024 | 21 Comments
8 years for Space Force

The Space Force is trying to retain trained people by offering an eight year active duty contract. The Space Force hopes to offer new Guardians the option of serving the regular eight-year enlistment — with four years typically spent on active duty and four in the Individual Ready Reserve component — entirely on active duty, […]

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Largest Demographic Shuns Army Service

| January 11, 2024 | 63 Comments
Largest Demographic Shuns Army Service

Not Answering Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits By Steve Beynon The Army’s recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade, according to internal data reviewed by Military.com, a decline that accounts for much of the service’s historic recruitment slump that has become the subject of increasing concern for Army […]

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Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On

| January 8, 2024 | 54 Comments
Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On

Diversity! West Point and the Naval Academy can keep affirmative action — for now By Irene Loewenson Two federal judges recently rejected legal attempts to halt affirmative action in the military’s service academies, at least for now. The anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions filed lawsuits this fall seeking to end the use of race […]

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TikTok Munity!

| December 18, 2023 | 73 Comments
TikTok Munity!

I’m Not Happy! US Army faces ‘TikTok mutiny’ as Gen Z recruits whine about low pay, ‘sh***y’ food and FITNESS TESTS while on bases in uniform Brazen posts represent audacious challenge to top brass amid recruitment crisis One of the posts by military influencer Anthony Laster slams Army life Says he spent whole day watching […]

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Covid Troops to Sue for Billions

| November 21, 2023 | 11 Comments
Covid Troops to Sue for Billions

Former Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch Coast Guard rescue swimmer Zach Loesch received a personal call from President Biden for his heroism saving Florida residents trapped by rising floodwaters during Hurricane Ian. At the time he expected to be discharged for violating the Biden Administration’s mandate that all DOD personnel be vaccinated for […]

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Victoria’s Real Secret

| October 18, 2023 | 68 Comments
Victoria’s Real Secret

No Sale Rapinoe’s Secret: Victoria’s Secret’s Sales Tank After Hiring Megan Rapinoe as Brand Ambassador WARNER TODD HUSTON Women’s lingerie chain Victoria’s Secret is reportedly pulling back from its recent woke ad campaigns featuring obese models, transgenders, and anti-American gay soccer star Megan Rapinoe after sales plummeted. In 2021, the sexy underwear company moved away […]

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Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas

| October 9, 2023 | 49 Comments
Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas

Hamas The term “Hamas” is an acronym for Harakah al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement.” It was founded in Gaza in 1987 by Imam Sheikh Ahmed Yasin shortly after the start of the first Intifada, an uprising against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. Hamas has been the power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 […]

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Majority of Retired 4-Stars Employed by Defense Industry

| October 5, 2023 | 42 Comments
Majority of Retired 4-Stars Employed by Defense Industry

Majority of Retired 4-Star Officers Got Jobs in Defense Industry, New Report Says More than 80% of the highest-ranking military officers who left the service over the past five years moved into jobs working for the defense industry, according to a new think tank report. Twenty-six of the 32 four-star officers who retired after June […]

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