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It will come as no surprise to patriots, but it may surprise the Leftists who are sure that they can keep using Americans who love this country as their drones and cannon fodder on an indefinite basis: hardly anyone wants to join Old Joe Biden’s woke military. That’s perfectly understandable. Why go through all the trouble of going through training and risk getting sent to some unnecessary war when you can learn about Critical Race Theory and get vaccinated right at home? Recruitment levels are lower than they’ve been in decades, and instead of doing something about it, Biden’s handlers are working to drive the morale of military personnel even lower.
According to a Sunday report from WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio, “in 2022, the U.S. Army fell 15,000 recruits short of its goal.” Francis Nwiah, captain and commander, U.S. Army Bridgeport Recruiting, said, “It’s a national security concern. We are struggling to get folks into the Army right now.” Nwiah blamed the Shanghai Sniffles: “We got hit by COVID, that affected our modus operandi and how we operate as recruiters.” He didn’t say anything about relentless Leftist indoctrination and the politicization of the military, however, and that’s more likely to be the problem.
To try to get the recruitment numbers back up, the Army is spending $117 million to dust off its 1980s slogan, “Be All You Can Be,” and that’s terrific, because the slogan has so much more resonance now than it did in the Reagan era. Now a male recruit may decide that he wants to be all that he can be by becoming a female recruit, and the Army (using your money, of course) will pay for surgery to reinforce his delusion.
A catchy jingle, however, is not going to be enough. And so, in its characteristic tone-deaf and ham-handed manner, the Biden regime has made another move that is meant to improve Army morale and even foster a pursuit of excellence, but which in practice is likely only to cause resentment and division in the ranks. Military.com reported Wednesday that “the III Armored Corps, headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas, released a new policy earlier this year restricting which tank crews can name their vehicles.” The new rule “limits the ability to name tanks to crews who score in the highest bracket during gunnery — a qualification meant to measure how effective a crew is in combat.”
We’ve all seen this. The practice is better known in connection with aircraft, dating back to World War II, but during that war, soldiers also gave their tanks nicknames, and this practice has continued.
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PRCS says
I spent 21 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy (’68 to ’89).
Way different now from my time.
Saw a picture a few years ago of a sailor, on a Navy pier, proposing to his boyfriend.
Way different.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That too would have been one thing, except that you now have CRT being taught, gender ‘fluidity’ being accepted, Covid vaccines being forced and soldiers who refused to take it fired. Soldiers being privately gay or having gay partners is way more innocuous than that, even though I to this day oppose gay marriage (but am okay w/ Civil Unions)
The real question is: why would any American join today’s military? If one is a Conservative, one can see it being led by people who loathe this country, and are out to pervert the constitution, and who’s wanna be led by that bunch? If one is a Leftist, one is taught to loathe this country, courtesy the 1619 project, in which case, why would one volunteer to risk one’s life, much less other possessions, for the country?
PRCS says
+1
tim gallagher says
Not good news at the same time as China becomes more aggressive and sees its chance to assert its power. Probably, since there are leftists, cultural Marxists, who spend all their time, in all western countries, trashing everything about our western countries, not many young people are interested in joining up and defending those horrible western societies. The march of the left wingers through the institutions is probably having some success and doing plenty of damage to the minds of young people..
James Lincoln says
All military officers take this oath:
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“I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Uniformed_Services_Oath_of_Office
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In order for a military officer to support and defend the Constitution, they have to believe in it.
They also have to believe that the United States of America – itself – is worth defending.
These two conditions currently excludes a large percentage of the military age US population.