The transgender pronouns, diversity training, and lesbian wedding ads aren’t working.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The military is facing the worst recruiting environment since the end of the Vietnam War.
The Army is at only 40% of its recruiting numbers for the fiscal year despite raising its maximum enlistment bonus from $40,000 to $50,000. It now offers new recruits up to $10,000 for showing up to basic training in 30 days. And is no longer even asking them for a high school diploma.
“We’ve never offered $50,000 to join the Army,” Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, head of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, said.
While the Army runs anime lesbian wedding ads, it’s pushing away the recruits it needs, young patriotic men from traditional backgrounds. When the Biden administration’s brass decided to mandate vaccinations, they automatically rejected the 60% of potential recruits who aren’t.
By Obama’s second term, male Army ROTC cadets were being forced to march in women’s high heels. Under Biden, that escalated to mandatory transgender pronoun training while figuring out living arrangements for men who suddenly decide that they’re really women.
The Army has stopped worrying about winning wars and is instead working to establish the “Army as a global leader in DEI”. That’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Obama’s Army Secretary Eric Fanning’s had already ordered mandatory implicit bias training for “soldiers and employees in senior leadership and management positions”. The Army is now preparing for the prospect of accommodating men in women’s housing and deploying HIV positive men.
While the Army brass complains that it can’t find recruits, even with gay wedding ads, transgender housing and HIV positive deployment, it’s been kicking out unvaccinated soldiers.
In February, it reported that commanders had “relieved a total of six Regular Army leaders, including two battalion commanders, and issued 3,073 general officer written reprimands to Soldiers for refusing the vaccination order.” As of June, 60,000 Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers are unvaccinated. That’s 12% of the Army Guard and 10% of the Army Reserve.
“Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth claimed. “Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness.”
HIV positive soldiers don’t present a risk or jeopardize readiness, but unvaccinated soldiers do.
Instead of spending $684 million on recruitment, and a $4 billion 10 year contract with Omnicom, one of whose subsidiaries worked on the Biden campaign, the Army could try to stop actively alienating and firing the young men actually willing to fight and die on the battlefield.
And maybe then the Army might be able to stop lowering standards and issuing moral waivers for criminal records. Or forcibly extending the assignments of recruiters and making them work on federal holidays in the hopes of recruiting 60,000 active duty soldiers.
A Quinnipiac poll earlier this year found that only 40% of Democrats would stay and fight if America were invaded, while 52% would run away. 68% of Republicans would stay and fight. 70% of men would stay and fight in contrast to, understandably, 40% of women, and 61% and 57% of Hispanic and white people would stay and fight, in contrast to only 38% of black people.
Polls like these provide obvious common sense guidelines as to whom to recruit. Instead the woke army, like the rest of the woke military, keeps trying to recruit the wokes who don’t want to fight for their country and don’t even think their country is worth fighting for.
While the Army is the most troubled of the military branches, the Air Force is 4,000 personnel underwater.
“We have warning lights flashing,” Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas warned. “Our ‘qualified and waiting’ list is about half of what it has been historically.”
Good thing the Air Force, like other branches, is screening recruits for “extremism” and the unvaccinated, and focused above all else on increasing its diversity quotas. The Air Force is less interested in recruiting in the South and bemoans the fact that 86% of Air Force aviators are white men. And those are exactly the people whom the Air Force brass no longer want.
“As Airmen in the U.S. Air Force, it’s our duty to acknowledge our biases whether we realize they exist or not,” airmen who are accused of being racist because they’re white are being told.
No wonder there are warning lights flashing in recruitment.
Navy recruiters are focused on the popularity of Top Gun Maverick to bring in new recruits. But the hit Tom Cruise movie has little relationship to the reality of a woke Air Force whose racialist brass are obsessed with critical race theory and whose planes don’t actually fly.
In the movie, the pilots fly F/A-18s and no one screams at them about their pronouns and their unconscious racial biases. Or their vaccination status. In real life, F/A-18E/F’s have a 51% mission capable rate. And the Navy’s woke leadership is focused on fighting “systemic racism:”
The Navy is offering a $25,000 “quick ship” bonus to recruits. “The Navy is the only U.S. military branch currently offering this high of an enlistment bonus for any new enlistee,” it brags, and suggests that the “the enlistment bonus could be as high as $50,000.”
But the Navy, like the Army and other services, can’t buy its way out of a morale crisis.
The United States military is never going to win a bidding war against corporations. Amazon warehouse team members make more than starting recruits. And they’re generally less likely to die. The only real military recruiting edge is a patriotic commitment to defending your country.
Military recruiters blame a national manpower shortage and their advertising strategy follows the familiar one of corporations going woke, appealing to the perceived wokeness and narcissism of Gen Z. Major corporations are being roiled by the radical activists they have recruited this way who are demanding that corporate leaders adopt not only their values but their agenda. Or else.
The brass trying to dress up the military in woke colors to make it appear that it shares their values are writing a big blank check that no one, not even Gen. Milley, wants to cash.
The Obama and Biden administrations appointed brass who gutted the services and replaced patriotic and nationalistic values with woke virtue signaling and radical politics. Now they’re discovering that when jobs are going begging, no one wants to join a woke military.
Patriots don’t and wokes won’t either.
Wokes willing to die for a cause are a lot more likely to join riots than the military. Those who see the military as serving their cause are, like actual white supremacists, exactly the kinds of “dangerous extremists” who are just joining up to gain experience for domestic terrorism.
There is a solution to the recruiting crisis. It doesn’t involve spending hundreds of millions on ad campaigns or anime lesbian weddings. The place to start is with the reasons for serving.
In the aftermath of the disgraceful Afghanistan retreat and of a War on Terror that has been effaced by political correctness, military service appears more senseless to many than it did after Vietnam. And in a nation riven with division, the military has come to reflect those divisions, with its brass firmly putting their thumbs on the partisan scale and adopting the leftist ideas and woke cultural values that are hostile to the majority of the men under their command.
The military, like so many institutions, went woke, now it’s finding out that woke leads to broke.
Rebuilding morale begins with a renewed commitment to national values and patriotism, to serious warfighting and meritocratic striving, and to a culture built on teams, not racial divisions.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s pamphlets, “Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country” and “How Obama and Biden Destroyed the Greatest Military the World Has Ever Seen” charted the shape of the crisis. Our military can be rebuilt, but it will take cleaning out the brass who were put in charge to dismantle it and transform it into another failed leftist operation.
And while the woke brass stay, the recruits stay away.
Wellington says
First culpable: Biden the doofus. Second most culpable: Milley, easily the worst Chief of Staff in American history—what a monumental fool and derelict he is.
Frankly, I look upon both Biden (and his handlers handling the puppet) and Milley as the two worst people in America today. I call upon all veterans who have retained their common sense and patriotism to demand that Milley be fired. Of course he won’t be under the pathetic Biden, but it would be a powerful statement nonetheless.
No more Bidens. No more Milleys. And no more Obama types. This malevolent trinity is destroying America and one knows this or should know it.
N.B., I continue to maintain that the single most destructive person in American history remains Obama—not Biden or Milley or Rice or Klain or Garland or Holder or Lynch or Yellen or Powell or Blinken or Clapper or Brennan or Wray or Pelosi or Schumer or…or…or…. Yes, Obama. A curse on him forever, though ideally I wish he lives a long life and sees all his stupid, destructive dreams destroyed before he bites the dust.
The first step that should be taken is that what’s left of sane registered Democrats is leaving the Democratic Party once and for all. No more excuses about remaining a Democrat in the primaries to vote for who is more moderate. This is indeed an excuse masquerading as an axiom and that ship sailed long ago.
The utter destruction of the Democratic Party would be the single greatest step in the right direction. The Democratic Party is far, far more of an enemy to America than the Whig Party ever was, even though the Whig Party also had to be destroyed. Ditto for Islam. Yes, the modern Democratic Party is even more of a powerful enemy than even Islam is. If I know anything, I know this. A la Cato, the Democratic Party needs to be destroyed.
gravenimage says
+1
Westman says
Agreed. There is so little that is democratic about the Democrat Party that I can only stomach calling it the Democrat Party. It is also the Autocratic Party.
bill says
An HIV pos soldier is not fit for combat but he will not infect others unless they have sexual relations. However the COVID risk is quite different, an unvaccinated soldier who gets Covid can incapacitate a whole unit. Imagine the situation in combat.
As far as I know all forces going overseas in WW2, Vietnam and the Gulf wars were vaccinated against possible diseases, no exceptions
somehistory says
If you can’t beat ’em….if you can’t acknowledge that you aren’t racist and can’t acknowledge that you have some ingrained morals. and can’t admit that you find the entire “trans” and “pronoun choosing,” and “gender choices,” as complete garbage., and you refuse to allow an “experiment in gene therapy” to be forced upon your body to then wonder what will happen inside your very cells…then you don’t “join ’em.” No matter how much money is offered…it isn’t enough.
Westman says
So right, SomeHistory. Patriots are not for sale or for use as guinea pigs.
Woke Warriors is an oxymoron – otherwise known as SJW rioters.
somehistory says
thank you, Westman. some people just make better people than others even try to make.
bill says
I makes no difference to ones genes
Phil Copson says
As Blinken/Sullivan/Milley/Austen have no intention of ever fighting an external enemy, that leaves only the question of whom – if anyone – they ARE willing to fight?
As with some police departments, the US Army is being re-invented as the para-military wing of the Democrat Party – intended to suppress the very people whom they are driving away the Armed Services.
somehistory says
they have already labeled us enemies for various reasons…even to just refusing to be jabbed or liking the Constitution’s guarantees or questioning elections and arrests of people who have committed no crime.
If they have convinced the ones they hope to recruit that we are their enemies and need to be locked away, enslaved or eliminated….even a deranged idiot can load and aim a gun.
Wellington says
Agreed. And why, among so many other reasons, the Democratic Party of America needs to meet its demise once and for all.
Actually, tired of the Manchins and Sinemas out there, even though in the short run they are useful at times. They are trying to keep a corpse alive which stinks and died along ago.
Infidel says
Excellent point. Although one thing about Dems – while they gut the military, they keep expanding, not contracting, the scope of their activities. This started under Bill Clinton, and continued under Obama. Biden actually seemed good in this aspect initially (putting aside the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which could have been done better had he left the Trump plan alone) until the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now, in addition to Ramstein, he wants to set up a military base in Poland. But who will he send there?
You do make a great point about them being re-engineered to suppress the very people being driven out of the forces
Westman says
“..being re-engineered to suppress the very people being driven out of the forces.”
And that effort is obviously failing when they can’t even buy replacements with a sign-up bonus larger than my entire multi-years pay while serving in the military.
Phil Copson says
…”from” the Armed Services…
Johnny B says
I’m way above recruitment age and even though I’m Danish I can still watch what’s going on in America. I assume young patriotic and conservative minded Americans are getting the same feelings of repulsivness and disgust when they watch these woke adds for the Military. Not something you want to be associated or affiliated with. Besides why is the Military so hell bent on appeasing groups that for the most part seem to hate their own country and culture, that makes no sense at all???
Wellington says
As an American, I strongly second your comments.
BTW, your English is excellent.
gravenimage says
All good questions, Johnny–thanks.
Johnny B says
Thanks, and same to you Wellington and gravenimage..
somehistory says
It’s all a part of the “liberal world order,” they wish to make happen…and sooner than anyone can imagine.
“Greg Gutfeld: Biden official’s ‘liberal world order’ comment is one of the biggest reveals in history”
the military, must of a necessity, be a big part of it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/greg-gutfeld-biden-official-s-liberal-world-order-comment-is-one-of-the-biggest-reveals-in-history/ar-AAZ5UVU?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=da0fc52e5afb4e8fb72b28ac04bf
Johnny B says
It’s an interesting point you make. Until very recently the main stream media over here in Denmark pushed the narrative of the so called “liberal world order” and why it apparently succeeded and conquered the world. This was a major talking point until at least a couple of years ago but they don’t push that any longer. In fact now they discuss why it has basically failed due to countries such as Russia and China who could care less about it. However, certain institutions such as the U.S. Military seems to be stuck with it for some reason, but they will have to reject it as well unless they wish to become completely irrelevant in the future and regarded as a complete oddball by the rest of the world.
somehistory says
they run out of workable new ideas, so return to the old and failed. Thanks for that information about your part of the world. It was once thought that the U.S. led in everything, but this seems to say something very different. we have been hearing the phrase “new world order,” and they didn’t admit to that until recently, and now this ‘liberal” thing, which is brand new to some of us.
James Lincoln says
So, according to the feature article:
“Army Secretary Christine Wormuth claimed. “Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness.””
That is a false statement.
Unvaccinated soldiers do not cause any increased risk to their fellow servicemembers – and they do not jeopardize readiness.
Soldiers are young and healthy and are more likely to jeopardize readiness with a major side effect from the Covid vaccine than from actually getting Covid (which they most likely have already had, which can be checked with antibody titers.)
James Lincoln says
According to the excellent feature article:
“no one wants to join a woke military. Patriots don’t and wokes won’t either.”
Perfectly stated Mr. Greenfield. My compliments.
gravenimage says
Good to hear the take from veteran, James.
James Lincoln says
Thanks!
Wellington says
I second, James, what gravenimage wrote.
Infidel says
Yeah, they’ve managed to create a military that everyone loathes. Congratulations!
gravenimage says
The Military Went Woke. Now It Can’t Find Recruits.
……………………………..
So concerning to see this–but with this increasing bullsh*t, who can be surprised?
tgusa says
Having to be used as an international mercenary for DC is enough of a turnoff without all that pink underwear, what bathroom do I use, and other stupid stuff.
tgusa says
I could share a bathroom with a woman i didn’t know with no problem but that’s just me. A typical islamophobe I suppose.
Westman says
How bereft of common sense are politicians and the military when they insult the type of men who would fight for this nation with the rhetoric and behavioral aspects of those who won’t? Don’t they understand that real men refuse to be parasitically exploited by those for whom they have lost respect? – Particularly the Left which constantly expresses hatred for the, “unwoke”.
Thought you could buy Patriotism with money, eh? Not working so well as it also didn’t in ancient Rome? Keeping Jan 6 protestors in confinement for a year in, “gulags”, without trial, is the government’s idea of promoting patriotism? The ongoing media-involved “show trial” will further deplete the Army and Marines – count on it. It would not be possible to make government more hated than for it to participate in division – “in living color, 24/7”.
A real man must have something of moral value to defend while the US has busily degraded itself into the old immorality and hedonism. If conservatives win the White House in 2024, the recruitment problem will likely subside.
Woke is worse than broke, it’s weak and vulnerable in a dynamic world of aggression.
Wellington says
Well written. Strongly seconded.
savvyone says
Indeed, I have always contended that B.H. Obama caused just what he set out to do. MAKE AMERICA PAY by whatever means possible. Financial destruction and division in the races.
CogitoErgoSum says
Having a strong military means that soldiers must be able to bond with one another. So not many people with their heads on straight want to put their lives into the hands of people who have their heads up their behinds. Who knew?
Namer says
Sadly everything in this column is true. Thank your local democrats and RINO’s.
Kesselman says
Alone the military’s recruitment ad (above) does not inspire “young patriotic men from traditional backgrounds.” Where is the traditional backbone of the US Military, the white boys?
CogitoErgoSum says
It was mostly white boys who suffered, fought and died so a younger generation of people who hate them could come along and spit on their graves and call them bigots and racists. Starting to look as if those dead white boys were the biggest fools of all time. Just think of what the world would be like if the Comanches had been the ones to conquer all of North America and the Aztecs were still the empire to the south and both of those empires were fighting for control of the entire western hemisphere. Black people would still be at home in Africa, men would not be wearing dresses and woman would not be doing the jobs of men. Probably best of all there would be no air pollution from gas burning cars. Truly, we would have a paradise on Earth. Oh wait. No, the best part of all is that Muslims would be ruling the rest of the world as if it were still the 8th century. What a great world it could have been if it weren’t for stupid white boys. (Yes, this is sarcasm.)
somehistory says
People generally see others as they themselves are. Liars believe all other people are liars, thieves believe everyone steals something from someone, etc.
so those who say White people are all racists, no good, should be dead, etc….are really looking at themselves. and when White people look at others as being “equal”…they are not stupid…I know sarc…but that is how they see themselves…equal …and that is not wrong. Intelligent people of any skin tone recognize that.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“People generally see others as they themselves are. Liars believe all other people are liars, thieves believe everyone steals something from someone, etc.”
Yes, that is a true statement.
The reverse is also true, and this puts American conservatives at a disadvantage. They don’t generally lie, steal, etc., and believe that most others share those values.
But that is not true of muslims and Leftists…
somehistory says
James,
You put the “reverse”…as I tried to do with my statement about how Whites…who aren’t racist, see themselves as equal but not better, because they see others as equal but not better.
thank you for helping me make my point.
tgusa says
All true.
“believe that most others share those values.”
A tragic and perhaps fatal mistake. Fortunately for us, it is a minority that are dumb enough to think that way.The question now is, where do we go from here. Even worse, where to we start to go from here?