US Army’s Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge

[JoeB131]

Anyway, back to the purpose of this thread.

The military is having a hard time filling recruitment goals, or more specifically, my beloved US Army is.

And understandable. We just got out of a war that had been going on since before most of the current Recruit pool was born. It was pointless, but our political leaders just let it drag on and on, and then wondered why no one was signing up after a certain point.

There are other factors, too. Increases in obesity means that they can't take those pudgy recruits and get them into shape. Decline in education quality has meant that a lot of them can't pass the ASVAB.

But the biggest problem... why join the Army and possibly get killed when you can join the Navy or Air Force and get all the same benefits?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Actually, there was very little evidence against Ethel, and very little evidence that the Soviets really gained all that much from what Julius provided.





Wow, Bob, you keep obsessing over my love life....

I'm a veteran, I've done more for this country than you ever will.

But I kind of have a hard time considering China an "enemy" when rich Americans moved all our jobs over there. Did someone forget to tell Ford, Apple, HP and all the other big titans of industry that China was our "enemy"? Or even the Trump Organization, which had their MAGA hats and cheap ties made in China.

What dating a Chinese woman has taught me is that most Americans are kind of piss ignorant of Chinese history, culture and attitudes.

They don't hate us, they want to be more like us.

Do you know what America is called in Chinese? "Meiguo" - The Beautiful Country.

Ford builds cars for sale in China, not to be imported into the US.

 

[Polishprince]

A normative person would really feel uncomfortable showering with She-Males and other Peter-Gazers, and are less likely to sign up in the current pro-LGBTQ+ atmosphere in today's woke military.

Its one thing if someone is condemned to the penitentiary by 12 angry men, but few young guys are going to be wanting to volunteer for a life where they have to worry about getting schlonged if they drop the soap in the showers.

OTOH, America's Gay youths just aren't stepping forward to serve on the front lines, in spite of the establishment of the New Woke Army which was set up for them.

 

[badbob85037]

US Army’s Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge​

US Army’s Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge
The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can’t…​

US Army’s Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge

US Army's Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can't...

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16 Sep 2022

US Army's Recruiting Crisis Worsens As Test Scores Drop, Disqualifications Rates Surge
The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can't find enough young people who meet the basic requirements to enlist, according to Army Times.
Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, second in command for Army Training and Doctrine Command, sounded off Thursday about the troubling developments. She highlighted disqualification rates for potential recruits jumped from 30-40% (pre-Covid) to a whopping 70% this year due to obesity, low test scores, and/or drug use.
Gervais pointed out the service has experienced a "nosedive" in recruits since July 2021. She explained Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores were 10% lower during the virus pandemic in 2020-21. That figure has since increased to 13% for the most recent high school graduating class.
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Besides failing to meet academic standards, obesity was another driver of higher disqualification rates. Also, increasing drug use among youngsters didn't help.
The challenges of today's youth put combat preparedness in question as liberal war hawks are determined to spark World War III in Ukraine and or in the Taiwan Strait.
At least the youth have one thing going for them: obsession with violent video games has desensitized an entire generation to all sorts of violence where war might not be a big shock.
Remember, the service's recruitment crisis has been an ongoing issue but has worsened in the last few years. We pointed out it's "another signal of declining support for the federal government and its institutions."
Maybe because the military has gotten too 'woke'? You know the saying: "go woke, go broke" -- this can also happen to empires...
The shrinking pool of eligible youth due to obesity, low test scores, or drug use should be a national security threat to US health and security.



Commentary:
Why should the Army worry about recruitment?
Or, is woke Emma with the two moms not nearly as powerful as we were led to believe?
Meanwhile for nearly two years the Delaware Demented Dolt got rid of thousands of highly experienced soldiers who were unvaxed.
The ASVAB is indexed to a 10th grade education level of knowledge. To get in the army a score of the 35th percentile or higher was required.
The two branches that demanded higher scores (>55) are the Air Force and the Marines.
No conservative in his right mind would join a Dementia led military. That would be stupid.
It’s not a military anymore, thanks to Biden. Milley and Austin. It’s now a liberal political entity that normal people reject and now patriotic families are dissuading their kids from joining, and military families are starting new legacies. Nice work Brandon.

Blame the teacher's union Califorina are the highest paid teachers in all the states yet math scores are 48th in the nation and reading they are 49th. We should be jailing them not paying them.