Posted on Jul 20, 2023
How would you solve the military recruiting challenges currently facing DOD?
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The recruiting struggles continue across all branches. What is causing it and how should it be addressed?
https://www.wsj.com/story/the-us-army-expects-to-end-up-15000-recruits-short-this-year-b5e9de86
https://www.wsj.com/story/the-us-army-expects-to-end-up-15000-recruits-short-this-year-b5e9de86
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Maybe a look at Israel or South Korea. Mandatory 2 years service after graduation. Have PE programs in schools to teach physical fitness and not square dancing and twerking. I know I am old school, but we actually had to sweat in PE and Sports. Along with the physical fitness, revisit teaching American History and Government Classes. See why we are America. Prepare them for service. On a lighter side, bring back the "Shark Attack" in Basic Training.
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Have a Commander-in-Chief who you can respect and who respects the military.
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Personally I would bring back the Draft, this time no deferments. It would give everyone in this country a chance of ownership in this nation. Currently less than 1% now serve, and they are carrying the 99% that don't serve. The people who were drafted wouldn't necessarily go into the military but serve as needed, Firefighters, Police, forestry workers, prison guards, etc.
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Since the inception of volunteer enlistment, the same standard practice of medical processing has been utilized and military doctors had to go off only what was listed on the pre-screen. Recruiting has seen a slight short fall for several years but what has caused a huge downfall in the number of people joining the military? For nearly 2 years meps medical has been mandated by DOD to use a system called MH Genesis which pulls an applicants past medical history from the health information exchange which completely changed everything yet we expect the same result. The point of this was to reduce the high attrition rate within initial training.
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I don't know, maybe making a recruiting video about a soldier named Emma, who was raised by two moms (one who appears to be trans) didn't strike a chord with the general public? It is possible that spending 100 million on a video aimed at recruiting the least likely people to join the military was a bad idea? I am guessing the .05% of America that falls in the the category of "two moms" was the brain child of the same misguided people who gave us the marketing strategies that led to the the Bud Light, and now Nike debacles. I know, let's insult and alienate our customer base while simultaneously trivializing the subject of the campaign, turning them into a punchline. That won't backfire or manage to turn everyone away from our core message. At least that's what they taught me at Harvard.
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End woke, DEI, CRT, promoting divisive ideologies, drop the whatever month or day and focus solely on warrior, combat training. Train to fight, kill, win. This soft, non warrior military and the Cpl klinger stuff has absolutely ruined the military, along with subtle doses of Marxism and a subliminal hate for America. Only the USMC is basically combat ready and it has serious problems; no iron sights, no snipers, no armor and no engineers and it too lowered standards, while silently smiling as it was force fed PC lunacy. Army, AF and Navy are not combat ready .china and NK train to kill us and we’re teaching Soldiers than men can have babies and to focus on pronouns vs. warfighting. It’s literal insanity.
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Do you old timers think we just sit around and talk pronouns all day? What metrics or data are you using to say the “Army, AF, and Navy are not combat ready.” Nothing of what you said is what happens in the day-to-day of 99% of soldiers and combat arms preparedness and training.
I’m tired of all the back in my day rhetoric when 99% of senior officers and NCO have years of combat experience and are sharing that with the force. We have a breadth of knowledge from the last 20 years of combat and are sharing that with the younger generation to prepare and maintain readiness. We focus on lethality and training and that is the priority.
What is literal insanity is all this “teaching CRT, DEI” crybaby discussion that I always hear from retirees and old SMs. That is the last thing on current SMs minds day to day and it’s hilarious that you envision us all in a circle sharing feelings all day.
I’m tired of all the back in my day rhetoric when 99% of senior officers and NCO have years of combat experience and are sharing that with the force. We have a breadth of knowledge from the last 20 years of combat and are sharing that with the younger generation to prepare and maintain readiness. We focus on lethality and training and that is the priority.
What is literal insanity is all this “teaching CRT, DEI” crybaby discussion that I always hear from retirees and old SMs. That is the last thing on current SMs minds day to day and it’s hilarious that you envision us all in a circle sharing feelings all day.
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