The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Children to Join

Post by wrp » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 2:42 AM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #47

lithos wrote: post #7

Escape 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…

Ohh. Sad to hear Navy Nuke is anything other than perfect. I had a great time in the Marines. I knew the GI Bill promises were BS and the training I got would not be applicable to the real world (honestly, how often do you call in fire from naval artillery in your corporate software development job.) I joined explicitly to play GI Joe for a couple years and explicitly chose a job that had me frequently out of sight o…

I'm afraid us older guys may not have a good sense of what military life is like today. I knew a lot of military families in the 1990s and they seemed satisfied. That contact ended for me about 20 years ago, so I don't know how things have evolved, but a quick check shows that my old friends' kids didn't join up.

By the way, TFA mentioned the Marines as the only branch still meeting quotas, so maybe things are not so bad there.

Post by Anon_Forever » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 7:08 AM UTC

gochi wrote: post #44

Anon_Forever wrote: post #40

A large part of the failure to recruit is a gigantic 500 pound gorilla in the room no one wants to acknowledge: Young Southern White men make up the bread and butter of the military. They have been the target of recruiting campaigns for decades upon decades. This group has collectively checked out of a society that has nothing but contempt for them. When the highest levels of the government and half of the political…

It's very interesting to read narratives like this online, and how vastly different it is actually talking to people. Here's the simple reality: the US military is useless to join for young men because they cannot guarantee you a home anymore. You are exchanging your life possibly just to come back with slightly more money. This means even poor young men aren't considering it anymore. Which were their actual base, po…

>It's very interesting to read narratives like this online, and how vastly different it is actually talking to people.

That's what happens when you don't step out of leftist bubbles.

>Here's the simple reality: the US military is useless to join for young men because they cannot guarantee you a home anymore.

That's been true for a long time, even before this precipitous drop in recruitment.

>Which were their actual base, poor men who were desperate and had no other option. Exploitation.

That is false. It's a narrative parroted often by leftists, but it's not reality. The poor are underrepresented in the US military.

>Men killing themselves isn't about "open discrimination".

No one said that. Go back and read my comment.

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