The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Children to Join
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#2Ancient Rome had this problem, which it 'solved' by selectively permitting various tribes to pass the limes (border) on exchange for military service. If the US is indeed an empire, it may choose this option.
Unfortunately, it did not end well for Rome, althiugh it worked for a while.
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#3Ancient Rome had this problem, which it 'solved' by selectively permitting various tribes to pass the limes (border) on exchange for military service. If the US is indeed an empire, it may choose this option. Unfortunately, it did not end well for Rome, althiugh it worked for a while.
Why would somebody want to die just because some rich people sell more products (guns ) and become richer ?
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#4The use of "even" here is interesting. It's precisely veterans who actually know what it's like rather than everyone else who are naive and idealistic.
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#5Ancient Rome had this problem, which it 'solved' by selectively permitting various tribes to pass the limes (border) on exchange for military service. If the US is indeed an empire, it may choose this option. Unfortunately, it did not end well for Rome, althiugh it worked for a while.
It's the bloody germans who you have to watch out for. Varus, Varus, return me my legions.
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#7Escape hatch-ed into the the military for the 2000s financial crisis, became a Navy Nuke and was one when those commands didn't have the lowest morale out of all the military (though we were competing against Drone Pilots who hit rock bottom enough to boo their commanding officer off stage).
The military is a fucked up place with utter bullshit like the CO using a suicide victim's "voice" to say we should work harder, where failures of people stay in (too afraid of civilian life, or trapped in the military since they're the only one who covers their child insurance wise, or worse get their rocks off at the command climate), and along with the entire thing being utterly corrupt (there are no economic pressures to do better, no social pressures since everyone is trapped by that contract, and no oversight pressures since politicians are afraid of the fallout of being hard on the military).
(On the bright side with the failure of the military to recruit, we know things are NOT completely hopeless economically/emotionally/socially for gen Z. Since when things get that bad, they're likely to ignore the advice of people who have recently been in)
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#8I feel like the word "crisis" is being used a lot for things that don't really seem like a crisis to me.
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#9Summary: Military kids traditionally are the majority of recruits, but America's military misadventures the past two decades have left veterans not very enthusiastic about their mission, and the current civilian job market is really good, so veterans are telling their kids that a civilian career might be the better path. Also, the general population isn't a great source either, as 3/4 of youths are deemed unfit for service, and parents are questioning whether the military would be a happy place for their kids. Fortunately, the Pentagon has crack marketing people working on the problem.
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#10Escape hatch-ed into the the military for the 2000s financial crisis, became a Navy Nuke and was one when those commands didn't have the lowest morale out of all the military (though we were competing against Drone Pilots who hit rock bottom enough to boo their commanding officer off stage). The military is a fucked up place with utter bullshit like the CO using a suicide victim's "voice" to say we should work harder…
Gen Z has a higher home ownership rate than Millenials or Gen X at the equivalent point in time. The idea that Gen Z has it bad is a media myth and/or a cultural phenomenon of whining to an echo chamber on Reddit.
https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r...