{"id":128144,"date":"2022-07-22T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128144"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:38:13","slug":"which-one-do-you-chose-army-readiness-or-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128144","title":{"rendered":"Which one do you chose, Army, readiness or wokeness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

From the Daily Caller:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

For comparison, by April 2017, the Army had achieved nearly 100% of its active duty recruiting goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Caller has the rest of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news","category-get-woke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-xkQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}