Submitted 10 months ago by OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works to conservative@lemm.ee
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html
Historically, military service has been a trend in a lot of American households.
You know who wasn’t left with a good feeling about the military? A shitload of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, who’s kids would normally would be a large of the current crop of fresh recruits.
Do you think that maybe their parents bitterness and anger might have affected their kid’s decision to enlist?
TLDR: Army recruitment goals are 65,000 recruits for the year. They had a shortfall of 10,000 recruits, 15% short. Meanwhile, white people specifically aren’t signing up, only 44% of new recruits are white. For context, the US is 68% white.
Of course there’s more than just racism, such as the obesity epidemic making many potential recruits not fit for service, the mental health epidemic doing the same, general apathy, etc etc. But the racism issue not to be overlooked, and it’s one of the few things that the army could try to target. The army can’t fix the obesity epidemic after all.
Army has fat camp. You still can’t be overly obese but it’s there. Along with an education program for people who didn’t have a diploma.
I am a huge fan of the military since it enables people to do better.
The army is very conservative when it comes to white troops. Sadly, this will impact our ability to go to war since white troops make up the combat arms and special forces.
The army is very conservative when it comes to white troops. Sadly, this will impact our ability to go to war since white troops make up the combat arms and special forces
Here is an interesting admission that conservatism favors white people over others for some things, despite wintermule’s pathological and repeated assertions that the progressives are the racist ones.
Also of note is the use of the word “sadly”, which would seem to indicate the knowledge that conservatism is not best possible guiding philosophy for all situations.
To quote winter:
DemocratsRepublicans can’t stop trying to put people into groups. My skin color is the least interesting thing about me.
Well Iraq was a bad war. The jury is out on that one. Nobody wants to fight wars for liars. And white people know who the liars are because they are loosely related. PLUS nobody wants to fight for a country that doesn’t care. A yellow ribbon and thanks for your service has to be the biggest fuck you to troops this side of the millennium.
What a joke democrats and republicans are. You get benefits that are meager at best. The VA phone system is broken as fuck. The doctors are of low quality because they are overworked. The VA can’t even get its appointment notifications right.
America dropped the ball from Vietnam until now.
VFW? AFL? Fuck those places. Nobody wants to be around those loser addicts and decrepit gatekeepers. Fuck. Them.
It’s so obvious to those under 40 but the dickheads ahead of us “just can’t seem to figure it out” even after being TOLD.
Good luck ARMY. You need it.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I bet I could tell 'em: the attack on longstanding social institutions that undermines our support for them. A conservative might blame CRT being taught in school, which is nonsense. I’d blame the Republican strategy of telling voters that the government doesn’t work and then being elected to office to ensure that it doesn’t. Even when I was in the military, I didn’t want to risk my life to defend nation on foreign shores. I can’t fault anyone else for feeling the same.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 10 months ago
We have grown, exponentially, in information sharing in the last thirty years. Anyone even slightly savvy can see that the ideals of “protecting freedom” have been replaced by “killing to maintain corporate growth.” Who besides the least advantaged would be okay with that? Dying in needless conflicts is not something privileged people sign up for and it’s why recruiters target minorities.