Marines squeak by
After all the articles we’ve done on the shortfalls in recruiting among all the larger services, two of the littlest are hitting their goals.
The Marine Corps once again met or slightly outperformed its goals for recruiting across all major categories in the past fiscal year, according to recruiting numbers released Thursday to Marine Corps Times.
“Slightly outperformed” – in this case “slightly” may even be an exaggeration, as they overshot their goals by 21 men. Call it a couple of squads. But, it’s still more than their objective, which is more than I can say for the Navy, Army, and Air Force (I recently discovered that last has an O in it – who knew.) Oh, and Space Force got their recruit.
Jim Edwards, a spokesman for Marine Corps Recruiting Command, said via email Thursday that the service exceeded its goal for non-prior-service enlistments by 21 people, for a total of 33,323 new or soon-to-be Marines.
Broken down, that means 28,921 new enlisted Marines in the active force and 4,402 new Marines in the Reserve, according to Edwards.
Wonder what they are doing right? Emphasizing being an elite, having esprit de corps (OK, in this case Corps) positioning themselves as being the baddest mofos in the Valley? Can’t be any of those…we’ve been getting told for years that diversity, gay and trans inclusion, and feewings are the key. Wonder how they can be doing it so wrong…yet doing it right.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Marines
Unlimited Shit and Mass Confusion is the only life for those born again… Hard.
The Marines benefit from being The Few and The Proud. While the Army, Navy, and Air Force have their own demographics, they all appeal to a much different audience than the Marines do. I spent a career in the Army Infantry and am biased towards it. No Marine unit, especially in today’s Corps lacking armor assets, can do what the Army and its Combat Arms can do. They can’t do what the Navy does, though they complement their parent service extremely well. They can’t do what the Air Force does.
What the Marines do is spectacular. They are expeditionary by nature, highly motivated, and have an integral Combined Arms force that is unmatched by anything the sister services have. Combine them with any number of other branches, and they are unstoppable.
The Army stopped being “super hooah” before I joined. There are the [largely Light and Airborne] Infantry units and their support elements that can probably outmatch the Marines in terms of esprit de corps, but the majority of Soldiers seem content in being mere paycheck collectors and part of Big Green. Hence, we are collectively more conducive to accepting all of the nonsense that DOD wants to push down our throats, even while those would-be Rangers and SF types decide that maybe “Naval Infantry” is a better choice for becoming parts of the Men’s Department.
Nailed it!
USMC has always represented the counter to that old “quantity has a quality all its own” saw.
A handful of rough and well-trained men can be worth more than a company of half-assed folk who care more about appearances than results.
The MAGTF graphic is still the the most visually accurate in all of US symbology (the graphic for Pirates still looks cooler).
Looking through a couple newer versions of Military Terms & Graphics, they made Piracy boring (changed from a stylized skull & crossed swords to a simple PI abbreviation, then got rid of it, entirely).
They are asking recruits to do what Marines (Riflemen/Infantrymen) do. Be exceptional at the skills required to do this and only this. No matter what your job in the Marines, you are always a Rifleman first. That is what the recruits said yes to. They said no to wokeness, diversity, equity, inclusion, as well as pronouns and safe spaces.
Marines win battles.
The Army wins wars.
Inchon? General of the Army McArthur. He graduated from West Point as an ENGINEER!
The Marines are starting to run commercials showing white males doing combat stuff.
Looks like we’re going to war boys !
OK. My old Engineer ass has one more. I really don’t want to, but if it means that my grandson don’t have to fight, then ok.
Yeah, well, Rifleman, here’s one for you:
https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/emilio-a-de-la-garza-jr
This is why I and my brothers served. From my hometown and I serve in the local Guard unit, part of “The Avengers of Battan”, 38th Infantry Division. Cyclone.
Are the Marines letting recruits pick their MOS? That might be the secret…
That’d be a strong incentive. As it stands, the Marines guarantee one job title: Marine. Marine or not, there are some that really want to be Infantry or another MOS, and of course Armor is now off the table altogether.
Removing armor is the dumbest part of Berger’s force 2030 initiative. Man will go down as worst commandant ever.
Jose Lento…
Con una chingada.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=clQO5AcjLnI&si=hRs_BhxI7PlAN5T0
I don’t speak much Spanish, but what I do know or remember, is not the converse with somebody’s grandma kind. But chingada or a variation of it could get your arse whooped if I remember correctly, depending on context or (im)proper use in a sentence.
Well, in this instance, “con una chingada” loosely translates to “what the fuck”.
That isn’t what I said. Today I can lol but at the time I would have been asking for a medic.
Aaaaaah….fuck all you guys.
Let me tell you a story about Sappers!
https://youtu.be/RILsPFQnDMU?si=q90jJ1IInSTIhxB3
Those guys with the aprons and the axes? Yeah, they’re ENGINEERS!
Essayons!
And, by the way , my Mexican ancestors kicked those French fuckers asses. La Legion Estrangere? Okay
Le Boudin?
Viva Juarez!
Viva Villa!
I have to admit, I almost did a classic spit-take when I read “…and Space Force got their recruit.” That was funny.
Thank you.
“….two of the littlest are hitting their goals.”
I thought the second one would be the puddle jumper Coasties.
But…..no mention.
So. Did the Coasties make Recruiting and Retention goals, or not?
Technically they are not DOD.