Do you think your 20 year old daughter wants to join an organization that will force her to use the bathroom and take a shower with a stranger, 20 year old man? Do you think you 19 year old white son wants to go to work for an organization that thinks of him as an oppressor and potential rapist (though he is allowed to take a shower with the girls)?
Think anybody wants to join an organization that puts them in harm’s way—and the CEO will not protect them? In the Middle East, U.S. forces have been attacked over 100 times and sleepy Joe has responded, meekly, only four times.
“Instead of blaming the kids, Bequette suggested that the Pentagon should be looking at the left.
“We’ve seen for many years prominent Democrats and people on the left really downgrading and insulting, frankly, people from middle America,” he said. “You know, from Hillary Clinton calling them ‘deplorables’ to Joe Biden calling them ‘MAGA Americans’.”
“Those people from red states, rural states, good old boys from Arkansas, my home state — those are the people who do a lot of the bleeding and sweating and living and dying in the U.S. military over the many generations of our proud military history,” the former Arkansas Senate candidate explained. “You know, when you see so many prominent people in our government really denigrating those people, it should come as no surprise to see those people, especially the muti-generational military families that you referenced, choosing different career paths. It’s hard to make up for that gap with an all-volunteer force.”
Why should young people risk their lives for those that hate them—like Hillary, Joe, AOC?
Army vet faults Democrats for ‘painful’ decline in US military recruits not America’s youth
Melissa Fine, Bizpacreview, 12/24/23 https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/24/army-vet-faults-democrats-for-painful-decline-in-us-military-recruits-not-americas-youth-1422445/
The U.S. military is facing a recruitment crisis, and one Army vet says it’s the Democrats — not young Americans — who are to blame.
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As BizPac Review reported, the Pentagon warned Congress last week that America’s fighting force heading into 2024 is the smallest it has been since before World War II
Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, Ashish Vazirani, the Pentagon’s acting undersecretary for personnel and readiness, revealed that “the All-Volunteer Force faces the greatest challenge since its inception.”
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“In Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, the Military Services collectively missed our recruiting goals by approximately 41,000 recruits, and that number understates the challenge before us as the Services lowered end-strength goals in recent years in part because of the difficult recruiting environment,” Vazirani told lawmakers.
He pointed to America’s youth, telling the committee that “members of Generation Z—and especially young adults aged 18 to 26—have low trust in many institutions, ranging from government to the media to large companies.”
What’s more, while “the end of conscription ended a divisive era in America and fostered the most capable military the world has known, it also set in motion a decades-long shift in who serves in the U.S. military,” he said. “For example, in 1995, 40% of U.S. youth ages 16 to 24 had a parent who served in the military. But by 2022, only 12% had a parent who served.”
Army vet and former NFL player Jake Bequette isn’t quite as quick to lay the blame on young Americans, calling the decline in new recruits “painful.”
“It is very painful to see,” Bequette told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on Monday’s episode of “The Story.”
“Really, I wouldn’t lay a lot of the blame on America’s youth,” he said, though he noted, “there’s some problems there.”
Instead of blaming the kids, Bequette suggested that the Pentagon should be looking at the left.
“We’ve seen for many years prominent Democrats and people on the left really downgrading and insulting, frankly, people from middle America,” he said. “You know, from Hillary Clinton calling them ‘deplorables’ to Joe Biden calling them ‘MAGA Americans’.”
“Those people from red states, rural states, good old boys from Arkansas, my home state — those are the people who do a lot of the bleeding and sweating and living and dying in the U.S. military over the many generations of our proud military history,” the former Arkansas Senate candidate explained. “You know, when you see so many prominent people in our government really denigrating those people, it should come as no surprise to see those people, especially the muti-generational military families that you referenced, choosing different career paths. It’s hard to make up for that gap with an all-volunteer force.”
After viewing a TikTok video MacCallum played of Army recruits claiming they joined up because they hated themselves, Bequette said that “just shows the low morale of the force under this current administration.”
Education, he said, plays an important role in sparking the urge to serve.
“One of the reasons why I joined the military, I have such a great respect for this country’s history and the great American patriots over the generations who have answered the call,” Bequette told MacCallum. “You referenced World War II. I love the American Revolution history — George Washington, first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. And our education system today, so few young people are hearing that history.”
“They’re hearing our American heroes being represented as evil racists and people that were doing all of these terrible things to disadvantaged people,” he continued. “And that really is shaping the views of America’s youth and making them have less respect for our institutions, have less respect for our history, and, therefore, making them less liable to want to put their lives potentially on the line to serve in our country’s military.”
“That really has to change,” he stressed, “if we’re going to restore the integrity and the numerical force of our all-volunteer military.”
Let’s not forget that we still have a draft. Fire up the computers and start drafting young people from left wing states. So what if they are fat, most are, just extend boot camp by and extra eight weeks and slim them down.
I know our host, Steve Frank served in Viet Nam. Many of us grey beards served the same era of military service. I think the draft made a man of me. One learns more about themselves than staying within the cocoon of their hometown and the same dopey friends.
I spent 38 years of active and US Army Reserve duty in four wars and conflicts mostly that the democrats initiated through poor defense measures and pure cowardice of the leadership.
I would not want two of my grandsons, now serving the Air Force and the Marines subjected to the social debasing of the services with the freaks that are now supported by this administration and that of Obama’s.
Soldiers want and need discipline and order from their leaders. We need to begin this learning process in schools that require a rigorous physical fitness and dietary education regimens. Enact measures that will inculcate these excellent traits that will benefit them forever.
Start drafting men and women at eighteen. We can build up the Reserves after at least two years of active duty as a bonus. Thye Iraq/Afghanistan wars proved that we need and rely heavily on the trained reserve forces. Colleges can wait and get better students as a result of their service to the nation. Unfit recruits due to no fault of their own can-do non-military service to the nation in their communities.