Which one do you chose, Army, readiness or wokeness?
The Army reduced its force size estimates for 2022 and for 2023. The Army may miss its recruiting objectives for this year, causing a need to adjust the estimated manpower sizes for this year and for next year. Not being able to meet the recruiting goals amplifies a question that many have on Army readiness.
From the Daily Caller:
“Do we lower standards to meet end strength, or do we lower end strength to maintain a quality, professional force? We believe the answer is obvious–quality is more important than quantity,” Lt. Col. Randee Farrell, spokeswoman for Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, told the AP.
Investigations into extremism in the ranks, diversity quotas, rigid vaccination mandates and other “woke” policies have undermined military recruitment by alienating families, the military’s largest recruiting market, according to Center for Military Readiness founder Elaine Donnelly. The Pentagon’s insistence on social justice over meritocracy, lowering of standards and “anti-recruiting messages” pushes away potential recruits, Donnelly told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Secretary Wormuth is ignoring the ‘check engine’ light on her dashboard.She keeps driving on, failing to notice how the administration’s policies are making the recruiting crisis worse,” said Donnelly. (RELATED: House Dems Hunt For ‘White Supremacy’ In Military’s Ranks)
The Army has achieved only 50% of its overall recruitment goal of 60,000 soldiers for fiscal year 2022 that ends in October, according to the AP.
The Army attained 17,800 new recruits to active duty service out of a 2002 goal of 26,000 as of April, according to data from the Department of Defense. The recruitment objective fell 20% from 2021, when by April the Army had brought on 28,000 active duty recruits, well on its way to the yearly goal of 32,000.
For comparison, by April 2017, the Army had achieved nearly 100% of its active duty recruiting goal.
The Daily Caller has the rest of the story.
HA!! Tried to trick us….LOL
Spent 6 years (76-82) as an Army Recruiter in the Chicago area. Barren desert ahead for recruiters. I foresee a rush of trans “individuals” for the purpose of government paid surgical transition ahead followed by non-deployment eligibility until their separation date. 😷
You got that right. Those transgender recruits will get MOS slots that a deployable “extremist” could fulfill, but they will never deploy because of the constant pre operation and post operation care needed to keep their “estrogen” balanced. Of course, they will still be considered for promotion slots because it is not their fault that they have this medical condition.
How would you like to be a Battalion commander who has 25% of his T/O strength that will never deploy? There is absolutely no return on investment in recruiting transgender troops, and if someone would like to dispute that, Hack is willing to listen.
Don’t forget the VA benefits post separation.
Well, what did the US Army expect?
Remember: Ole Joey Brandon Boy is also the Commander In Chief *Shudder*
Have no sympathy. None.
Thank Goodness We Have Our DD214s.
I’m so glad I retired last year. Oh, and to answer the spokesman question, the Army did lower its standards instead of going for quality when it decided to go along with progressive ideology. It’s telling that not one colonel/captain and above has balked at anything the Biden administration has done. There is one exception, the text traffic during the Afghanistan debate, er, withdrawal.
Remember, you boyz and girlz who are drawing retired pay can be called back to active duty any time the cucks in the five-sided palace deem you are needed to fill the ranks.
This!
Sure, they can. And I will be that officer stuck in the corner getting every shitty detail or assignment because I will not comply with their crap. And I’m even worse now. And I held my last rank for almost 6 years so it’d be a hassle for them to reduce me in rank…Wait, maybe I should request to go back on active duty?
I know a couple of retirees who got recalled for Desert Storm. For one it was no big deal; he was doing the same job in the private sector as he had done on active duty; he just put on a different uniform. For the other, it was painful. The guy had gone from plump to “Oh my god, do we have a uniform big enough to fit him?”
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, I called a recruiter and asked if they heard any noises about Bush the younger recalling retirees as Bush the elder had done. She told me not to worry, there was a waiting list and since I’d been retired so long (5 years) and had a well staffed AFSC it didn’t look like they’d consider me.
Today, as I’ve long ago past my 60th birthday, I can take my rest in my DD214 blanket.
As I approach my 70th cycle around this solar orb, and over 20 years retired, I have no worries about being recalled to military duty.
I cherish my DD214, for it covers and protects me.
No. You’re not offended jack ass, you’re a piece of shit.
Quantity can have a quality of it’s own. It’s good that we can feel all warm and fuzzy by giving our DD214s a hug, but the fact remains that our country’s security does depend upon a strong military. The world is NOT a nice place and there are a lot of people that would love to see us fall. And, sadly, there are many of our domestic enemies that are doing their best to make sure we do fall.
And the destruction of America continues.
What you’ve stated is true and I do fear for our military and our country. I put over half my life in service to the nation only to watch it begin to crumble while I and my friends wore the uniform. We are at crossroads with progressives, I only hope we pick the right path.
Recently, I overheard a recruiter talking to a young man. The recruiter (not Army by the way) told the kid the training he’d get was so good he could expect to make $325,000.00 a year when he was discharged after a four year enlistment. The kid admitted he was barely passing high school.
Now, do we really want someone who would believe that story to enlist?
Sadly I’ve seen too many folks expecting the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
He left out that the $325,000 includes income from a multilevel marketing scheme.
Shit, if Hack Stone could earn $325,000 after a four year enlistment, he would have been long gone at four years and a day.
I remember being offered very generous income potential from The Wonderful World of Amway®™ when I was in my AD days and the 1LT recruiting for it was soon drummed out!
I remember my dad telling the Fuller Brush man
to get lost.
Just assumed they lied like a rug.
I was in one of those highly sought after fields and I’m lucky to make half that figure.
Enlisted nukes can reasonably expect $75k+ out the door, closer to $100k if they picked up their degree. But $325? Not even NRC-licensed SRO’s make near that kind of money.
The Army met it’s recruiting goal in April 2017? Hack wonders what the difference in leadership in the ensuing five years.
Y’know, when shit hits the fan, most folks more or less do their jobs and a small percentage of studs handle the bad parts. Counting on a reduced force to be all studs is playing some VERY LONG odds.
Yea though I view the Valley of idiocy, I shall fear no stupid, for my DD214 is with me.
Go woke, lose the good folk.
Restart the draft. Let the drill sergeants handle the “woke” training starting with a 0500 wake-up call.
With kids who don’t go outside or do anything but play X-box, they start PT at 0430 and go for two hours, then straight to breakfast and hygiene after, now. (Us old codgers visiting there, expecting DIs at 0520 going “Get the f*ck up! Drop your c*cks and grab your socks!” next door, got woke-up going WTF?! looking at our watches.)
In the messhall (sorry, DFAC) at 0630 when they come in, we saw their DI was angry with ’em. He had the knife hands out (which, later, we heard he shouldn’t do ’cause that’s “insensitive” today) and is chewin’ their ass. Then he winds-up and drops…
“Friggin’!”
Huh, what? We’re stunned. We look at each other. (“Wasn’t he gonna say another F-word?” one guy says.) To this day, no one of us can remember what the DI was pissed-off at the troops about. Blew our minds.
I’m on leave now (finally) but have my DD-214 downstairs. I take comfort in knowing that my days of walking a straight and narrow line are behind me. Could I be recalled to active service? I suppose, heck I could be told my retirement leave has been rescinded effective tomorrow. Will that happen, I don’t see it. I think that specialty MOS’ are more in demand than washed up Infantrymen.
The Army, and the military in general, needs to realize that a lot of aspiring recruits are traditionalists. They serve due to having a family tradition, patriotism, or of course for job skills or college. They don’t join to further an agenda, and those who feel a “calling” as opposed to merely enlisting for benefits are turned off when they see our military leaders, to include the CinC, focusing more on societal issues (many of which are overblown if not made up) than on fighting our wars.