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| Robert Peffers... |
 Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:06 pm |
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75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve
By Noah Shachtman
November 4, 2009
10:43 am
Categories: Military Life
More than three-quarters of the nation’s 17- to 24-year-olds couldn’t
serve in the military, even if they wanted to. They’re too fat, too
sickly, too dumb, have too many kids, or have copped to using illegal
drugs.
The armed services are willing to grant waivers for some of those
conditions - asthma, or a little bit of weed. But the military’s
biggest concern is how big and how weak its potential recruits have
become.
“The major component of this is obesity,” Curt Gilroy, the Pentagon’s
director of accessions, tells Army Times‘ William McMichael. “Kids are
just not able to do push-ups… And they can’t do pull-ups. And they
can’t run.”
23 percent of 18- to 34-year-old are now obese, up from just six
percent in 1987.
The group of potential enlistees is further slimmed by the “propensity
to serve” among American youths, which social scientists say also is
declining. According to Gilroy, research shows that about 12 percent
of all U.S. military-eligible youth show an interest in military
service.
The military just had a big recruiting year. But as the economy
improves, and the war in Afghanistan drags on, it’s going to be tough
to rely on such a tiny sliver of America’s youth to maintain an all-
volunteer force. Either the recruiting standards have to change —
maybe the military’s new Cyber Command doesn’t need guys who can do a
bunch of pull-ups. Or the recruits themselves have to.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/75-of-potential-recruits-too-fat-too-sickly-too-dumb-to-serve |
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| Mitchell Holman... |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:09 am |
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Robert Peffers <auldbobpeffers2u at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in
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Quote: 75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve
By Noah Shachtman
November 4, 2009
10:43 am
Categories: Military Life
More than three-quarters of the nation’s 17- to 24-year-olds couldn’t
serve in the military, even if they wanted to. They’re too fat, too
sickly, too dumb, have too many kids, or have copped to using illegal
drugs.
Is that why Bush's kids dodged serving in wars they supported? |
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| Marcus Aurelius... |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:31 pm |
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The decline in the number of willing qualified recruits for our
military began during the "Orwellian Pig" revolution of the late
1960's and 1970's(in which republican principles of equality under the
law were abrogated), in my opinion. Returning Vietnam veterans were
castigated, discriminated against, and demeaned by the American people
and the American government. This has left an indelible mark on future
generations of men. Further, as the result of this revolution, the USA
has become increasingly Orwellian, Machiavellian, and Authoritarian
with the result that the citizenry is increasingly resembling,
socially, culturally, politically, and PHYSICALLY, the "Orwellian Pig"
stereotype.
The military, social, economic, cultural, and political decline
resulting from the same, concomitant with the significant decline of
those willing and able to serve in our military, is a reasonable and
expected result of the same.
"No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was
which." George Orwell, the conclusion of “Animal Farm.” |
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