Some more info on convicted criminal and adulterer David Petraeus' claim that Americans will arrive in Russia in droves and finish them in a conventional war after nukes are used - with what? Once nukes are used, neither side will be in a position to launch a fresh war anew. But even so, let's look at the state of Amrika Bahadur's army:
The American military is now having trouble recruiting enough soldiers. According to the New York Times, its ranks are short thousands of entry-level troops and it’s on track to face the worst recruitment crisis since the Vietnam War ended, not long after the draft was eliminated.
Mind you, it’s not that the military doesn’t have the resources for recruitment drives. Nearly every political figure in Washington, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, invariably agrees on endlessly adding to the Pentagon’s already staggering budget. In fact, it’s nearly the only thing they seem capable of agreeing on.
After all, Congress has already taken nearly a year to pass a social-spending package roughly half the size of this year’s defense budget, even though that bill would mitigate the costs of health care for so many Americans and invest in clean energy for years to come. (Forget about more money for early childhood education.)
Nor is the Pentagon shy about spending from its bloated wallet to woo new recruits. It’s even cold-calling possible candidates and offering enlistment bonuses of up to $50,000.
As it happens, though, its recruiters keep running into some common problems that either prevent young people from enlisting or from even wanting to do so, including the poor physical or mental health of all too many of them, their mistrust of the government (and its wars), and the recent pandemic-related school closures that made it so much harder for recruiters to build relationships with high-school kids.
Many of these recruitment issues are also all-American ones, related to the deteriorating quality of life in this country. From a basic standard of living to shared values or even places where they might spend much time together, they seem to have ever less connecting them to each other. In a nation where friendships across socioeconomic classes are vital to young peoples’ access to new opportunities, this ought to trouble them.
In such communities, it turns out that the military might no longer be able to promise opportunity to that many young people anymore. After all, their government has done an increasingly poor job of providing a basic safety net of food security, a decent education, and reasonable healthcare to their poorest citizens and so seems to have delivered many of them to adulthood profoundly unwell and in no condition to join the military.
Annually, the proportion of young people who are mentally and physically healthy has been shrinking. As a result, roughly
three quarters of those between the ages of 17 and 24 are automatically disqualified from serving in the military for obesity, having a criminal record, drug use, or other similar reasons.
To take one example, obesity among kids has skyrocketed in recent years. During the pandemic, in fact, it began rising a stunning five times faster than in previous years. While obesity may not always disqualify young people from serving in the military, it usually does, as do obesity-related diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.
While its underlying causes are complicated, two things are clear: it’s far more prevalent among the lower- and middle-income segments of the population and per capita it’s strongly linked to wealth inequality.
Legislation like the Healthy Food Access for All Americans bill, which has the potential to expand access to less fattening foods through tax credits and grants for grocers and food banks, was introduced in the Senate more than a year ago. You undoubtedly won’t be surprised to learn that it has yet to pass.
The casualties of not caring for their own in this way are high. According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated 300,000 deaths each year are due to this country’s obesity epidemic. Unfortunately, deadly as such a phenomenon might prove to be, it doesn’t make for the sort of gripping plots that popular movies need.
Similarly, the military’s recruitment efforts suffer because of poor mental-health levels among young people. One in five young women and one in 10 young men experience an episode of major depression before turning 25. Meanwhile, the suicide rate in Murica is the highest among wealthy nations and also the second-leading cause of death among 10-to-24-year-olds. Worse yet, poor kids are significantly more likely to die by suicide.
The updated figures paint a picture of what is currently plaguing military recruiters in many of the service branches, with a shrinking pool of potential service members available to them.
www.military.com
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How is the US government going to start a major war yet a majority of Americans especially around the draft age range don't even meet the minimum requirement to serve? Imagine the shitshow of sending a bunch of lazy drugged up Zoomers to the frontlines.
The U.S. military exhausted man resources in Iraq and Afghanistan. The soldiers who lived are going to retired or have retired. The amount of people that need to be in the U. S. military (all branches) is under reported, things like nuclear submarines don't run by themselves and the pool of compatible seamen is stricter than the air force and army. An army of wokefags, trannies and dykes will do fuck-all at the frontline.
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