More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren’t Fit For Military Service: DOD

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More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren’t Fit For Military Service: DOD​

More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren’t Fit For Military Service: DOD

More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren't Fit For Military Service: DOD As the US military struggles to fill the ranks with new recruits, a new

www.nationandstate.com

4 mar 2023

As the US military struggles to fill the ranks with new recruits, a new report from the Department of Defense reveals that the vast majority of Americans aged 17-24 are unfit for military service.
Citing a Feb. 16 congressional hearing, a DoD report reveals that 77% of Americans in the above age group could not physically qualify to enter the armed forces – a 6% increase from 2017.
A key factor is obesity – which hit nearly 42% in 2020. Meanwhile, a 2022 study cited by the Epoch Times found a link between receiving government food assistance and a greater chance of becoming obese through the consumption of unhealthy foods. A 2015 USDA analysis found that 40% of total SNAP participants were obese.
Last month, Military.com reported on an Army initiative to whip fat, low-scoring recruits into shape in ‘pre-basic training courses.’
~Snip~

A Dangerous Dilemma​

In September 2022, a U.S. Army general bluntly said that young Americans are either too obese, too sick, or too criminal to serve in the military.
“Some of the challenges we have are obesity, we have pre-existing medical conditions, we have behavioral health problems, we have criminality, people with felonies, and we have drug use,” Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson told The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington.
Brunson called it a “condition,” saying that “this is not an Army problem, so nationally what we have to look at is what’s going on with our youth.”
The general’s statement came as a response to difficulties the U.S. military had reaching their target goals for recruits in 2022.
~Snip~

Lowering the Bar?​

In respohnse to this challenge, the U.S. military is adjusting its fitness requirements for some jobs, especially those that aren’t physically demanding, such as technology-based positions.
Tsukerman cautioned that lowering the bar within the U.S. military could set a dangerous precedent.
“While it is true that technical developments such as the use of UAV [unmanned aerial vehicles] and AI [artificial intelligence] have displaced some human participation in the field, much of the combat still relies on conventional human performance,” she said. “Therefore, national security directly depends on human forces being astute, situationally aware, and agile.”

Commentary:
Besides America's terrible diet habits, also contributing are our screen culture, climate-controlled buildings and a massive decrease in strenuous physical labor. Supposedly grip strength in folks under 30 is much, much weaker than previous generations. I suppose that’s probably been happening since the industrial revolution to some extent though.
A long time ago (Vietnam era) when I enlisted, the basic training regimen was such that thing kids bulked up and fat kids slimmed down. I went from 145 lbs., to 165lbs, and was hard as a rock. I saw fat guys lose weight eating the same food.
I was in very good shape when I went in the Air Force, so it was no big deal for me. Most in my BT Flight were in pretty good shape. Of course, this was more than fifty years ago and things were a lot different then, as living a sedentary lifestyle was a rarity.

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[Polishprince]

What's worse is that most of the people who are qualified aren't interested in the least, as the US Military has become ultrawoke in their avoidance of Toxic Masculinity.

Who wants to be in a foxhole with a She-Male looking to bust your cheeks? No real men really want to deal with that kind of drama.

I don't know if the invasion of Iwo Jima would have been successful if the USMC would have sent waves of crossdressers.

 

[cnm]

I don't know if the invasion of Iwo Jima would have been successful if the USMC would have sent waves of crossdressers.

I don't know, they'd have made just as good cannon fodder.

 

[Doug1943]

What's worse is that most of the people who are qualified aren't interested in the least, as the US Military has become ultrawoke in their avoidance of Toxic Masculinity.

Who wants to be in a foxhole with a She-Male looking to bust your cheeks? No real men really want to deal with that kind of drama.

I don't know if the invasion of Iwo Jima would have been successful if the USMC would have sent waves of crossdressers.

Maybe the Japanese would have died laughing. I understand that's the secret motive -- aimed at the Russians and Chinese -- behind the Army's new directive, aimed at (real) female soldiers, instructing them how to behave when a 'woman' with a penis showers with them.

The only good thing about all of this is that maybe the Chinese will delay making war on us, since we're rapidly committing national suicide. Mr Putin shouldn't have been so impatient.

 

[fncceo]

Lowering the Bar?

 

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[frigidweirdo]

What's worse is that most of the people who are qualified aren't interested in the least, as the US Military has become ultrawoke in their avoidance of Toxic Masculinity.

Who wants to be in a foxhole with a She-Male looking to bust your cheeks? No real men really want to deal with that kind of drama.

I don't know if the invasion of Iwo Jima would have been successful if the USMC would have sent waves of crossdressers.

The US has a history of using its military for nefarious means, who wants to go die in some hot country so some rich prick can get richer? Any takers?
And then you get the full blast of patriotic manipulation and indoctrination to keep you in like. Essentially it's like Islam.

 

[Doug1943]

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Whoa ... that poor fellow could have been me during Basic! But it's surprising what you can force yourself to do with a mean old Drill Sergeant screaming at you.

 

[luiza]

Saw this in ZH yesterday but wondered if decent Americans had already been humiliated enough .

Getting Ukey women and children to fight on their behalf is as bad as it gets .

But I guess that with their losing record it is the lesser humiliation .

 

[Doug1943]

After WWII, the American ruling elite drew the conclusion that we could not stay out of world affairs any longer ... that doing so after WWI led to the rise of German and Japanese militarism.

Soviet Russia's Stalin was seen as the new Hitler, even more insidious because the spread of Communism was being done via indigenous forces (after the conquest of Eastern Europe).

To what extent this is true is a long argument. But after the Russians voluntarily, peacefully, withdrew from Eastern Europe and liquidated Communism in Russia, and after the Chinese decided to replace socialism with capitalism (although retaining their rule), we should have drawn the conclusion that we didn't need to be world hegemon any more.

But that's not what our ruling elite decided. And they got huge assistance from the Islamists with 9/11.

Now, however, some of us are waking up.

Ukraine is unfortunate, because -- if you come into the movie in January 2022 -- it seems to be a case of a nice liberal democracy (or a country on the way to becoming one) invaded by an evil, irrational tyrant bent on re-establishing the Russian Empire.

Very few Americans know any history, so what they see on the evening news is it, undergirded by the Hollywood view of the world, which is that all history is Good Guy Heroes fighting Pure Evil Bad Guys.

But Putin fired the first shot. A huge mistake. That lost him what would have been a lot of, if not support, at least understanding, on the part of the ordinary people of the West.

So the whole horrible tragedy will have to play out to the bloody end. Who will win? Who wins an earthquake?

 

[James California]

~ Replace potato and corn chips with this :

No obesity​

 

[Mushroom]

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Want to know the most amazing part about that role?

This is the same actor less than 9 months later.

Vincent D'Onofrio packed on over 70 pounds in order to play Private Pyle. He then worked it all off so he could play the mechanic in "Adventures in Babysitting". Both movies were released in the same year.

The problem is not the weight, as much as it is that those that are obese refuse to do anything to get rid of it.

 

[themirrorthief]

What's worse is that most of the people who are qualified aren't interested in the least, as the US Military has become ultrawoke in their avoidance of Toxic Masculinity.

Who wants to be in a foxhole with a She-Male looking to bust your cheeks? No real men really want to deal with that kind of drama.

I don't know if the invasion of Iwo Jima would have been successful if the USMC would have sent waves of crossdressers.

ed wood stormed the beach at IWO JIMa wearning panties and a bra under his uniform

 

[themirrorthief]

After WWII, the American ruling elite drew the conclusion that we could not stay out of world affairs any longer ... that doing so after WWI led to the rise of German and Japanese militarism.

Soviet Russia's Stalin was seen as the new Hitler, even more insidious because the spread of Communism was being done via indigenous forces (after the conquest of Eastern Europe).

To what extent this is true is a long argument. But after the Russians voluntarily, peacefully, withdrew from Eastern Europe and liquidated Communism in Russia, and after the Chinese decided to replace socialism with capitalism (although retaining their rule), we should have drawn the conclusion that we didn't need to be world hegemon any more.

But that's not what our ruling elite decided. And they got huge assistance from the Islamists with 9/11.

Now, however, some of us are waking up.

Ukraine is unfortunate, because -- if you come into the movie in January 2022 -- it seems to be a case of a nice liberal democracy (or a country on the way to becoming one) invaded by an evil, irrational tyrant bent on re-establishing the Russian Empire.

Very few Americans know any history, so what they see on the evening news is it, undergirded by the Hollywood view of the world, which is that all history is Good Guy Heroes fighting Pure Evil Bad Guys.

But Putin fired the first shot. A huge mistake. That lost him what would have been a lot of, if not support, at least understanding, on the part of the ordinary people of the West.

So the whole horrible tragedy will have to play out to the bloody end. Who will win? Who wins an earthquake?

its not football, there are no winners

 

[Doug1943]

its not football, there are no winners

Right. It's more like who wins an earthquake, or forest fire, or plague. Except that full-on nuclear war, supplemented by bio war, will be all of them at the same time.

 

[Mushroom]

ed wood stormed the beach at IWO JIMa wearning panties and a bra under his uniform

Ed Wood never saw combat.

 

[Doug1943]

Ed Wood never saw combat.

Correct. From the Wiki bio:

In 1942, Wood enlisted at age 17 in the United States Marine Corps, just months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Assigned to the 2nd Defense Battalion, he reached the rank of corporal before he was discharged in 1946 at age 21 Although Wood reportedly claimed to have faced strenuous combat, including having his front teeth knocked out by a Japanese soldier, his military records reveal that to be false; apart from recovering bodies on Betio following the Battle of Tarawa, and experiencing minor Japanese bombing raids on Betio and the Ellice Islands, a recurring filariasis infection left him performing clerical work for the remainder of his enlistment. His dental extractions were carried out over several months by Navy dentists, unconnected to any combat. Wood had false teeth that he would slip out from his mouth when he wanted to make his wife Kathy laugh, showing her a big toothless grin. Wood later claimed that he feared being wounded in battle more than he feared being killed, mainly because he was afraid a combat medic would discover him wearing a pink bra and panties under his uniform during the Battle of Tarawa.
[ Ed Wood - Wikipedia ]

He was born before his time. Also from the Wiki bio:

According to Wood's second wife, Kathy O'Hara, Wood's mother Lillian would dress him in girl's clothing when he was a child because she had always wanted a daughter

Today, if he was in a 'Woke' school district, they'd have his willy cut off, and he'd be injected with hormones, before he learned to read.

 

[Mac-7]

More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren’t Fit For Military Service: DOD​

More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren’t Fit For Military Service: DOD

More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren't Fit For Military Service: DOD As the US military struggles to fill the ranks with new recruits, a new

www.nationandstate.com

4 mar 2023

As the US military struggles to fill the ranks with new recruits, a new report from the Department of Defense reveals that the vast majority of Americans aged 17-24 are unfit for military service.
Citing a Feb. 16 congressional hearing, a DoD report reveals that 77% of Americans in the above age group could not physically qualify to enter the armed forces – a 6% increase from 2017.
A key factor is obesity – which hit nearly 42% in 2020. Meanwhile, a 2022 study cited by the Epoch Times found a link between receiving government food assistance and a greater chance of becoming obese through the consumption of unhealthy foods. A 2015 USDA analysis found that 40% of total SNAP participants were obese.
Last month, Military.com reported on an Army initiative to whip fat, low-scoring recruits into shape in ‘pre-basic training courses.’
~Snip~

A Dangerous Dilemma​

In September 2022, a U.S. Army general bluntly said that young Americans are either too obese, too sick, or too criminal to serve in the military.
“Some of the challenges we have are obesity, we have pre-existing medical conditions, we have behavioral health problems, we have criminality, people with felonies, and we have drug use,” Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson told The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington.
Brunson called it a “condition,” saying that “this is not an Army problem, so nationally what we have to look at is what’s going on with our youth.”
The general’s statement came as a response to difficulties the U.S. military had reaching their target goals for recruits in 2022.
~Snip~

Lowering the Bar?​

In respohnse to this challenge, the U.S. military is adjusting its fitness requirements for some jobs, especially those that aren’t physically demanding, such as technology-based positions.
Tsukerman cautioned that lowering the bar within the U.S. military could set a dangerous precedent.
“While it is true that technical developments such as the use of UAV [unmanned aerial vehicles] and AI [artificial intelligence] have displaced some human participation in the field, much of the combat still relies on conventional human performance,” she said. “Therefore, national security directly depends on human forces being astute, situationally aware, and agile.”

Commentary:
Besides America's terrible diet habits, also contributing are our screen culture, climate-controlled buildings and a massive decrease in strenuous physical labor. Supposedly grip strength in folks under 30 is much, much weaker than previous generations. I suppose that’s probably been happening since the industrial revolution to some extent though.
A long time ago (Vietnam era) when I enlisted, the basic training regimen was such that thing kids bulked up and fat kids slimmed down. I went from 145 lbs., to 165lbs, and was hard as a rock. I saw fat guys lose weight eating the same food.
I was in very good shape when I went in the Air Force, so it was no big deal for me. Most in my BT Flight were in pretty good shape. Of course, this was more than fifty years ago and things were a lot different then, as living a sedentary lifestyle was a rarity.

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The nation’s top Marine, Commandant Gen. David Berger, took to social media Tuesday morning to stress the service’s “most important matters.”

www.washingtontimes.com

Here's the Marine Corps' Plan to End Gender Segregation at Boot Camp

All-male recruit companies trained solely by men will be made "obsolete," according to a Marine Corps memo.

www.military.com

Pentagon Orders Military To Put Male Soldiers In Female Showers

Why should a tank commander at Fort Hood have to deal with pronouns instead of training his troops to fight an enemy force?

thefederalist.com

Army Mandates Training on Pronouns and Treatment of Trans Soldiers

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freebeacon.com

We cant do much about their criminal record

Or how little they learned in school

But their physical shortcomings can be corrected

 

[Doug1943]

We cant do much about their criminal record

Or how little they learned in school

But their physical shortcomings can be corrected

Ha. Don't I know that. Basic Combat Training is the only diet program which is guaranteed to work.

The problem is, people with low IQs are a liability in combat. They get killed much more frequently, and get others killed as well. [ Project 100,000 - Wikipedia ]

Easy solution: make successful completion of military service a condition of being able to vote. (And allow absolutely anyone to be able to join the military.)

 

[Mac-7]

Ha. Don't I know that. Basic Combat Training is the only diet program which is guaranteed to work.

The problem is, people with low IQs are a liability in combat. They get killed much more frequently, and get others killed as well. [ Project 100,000 - Wikipedia ]

Easy solution: make successful completion of military service a condition of being able to vote. (And allow absolutely anyone to be able to join the military.)

That idea would be a windfall for republicans

But the dems would fire on Fort Sumter again before allowing it to become law