The Army has cut orders sending 800 NCOs to recruiting school. Included in the memo are the fact that none of the time-in-grade, fitness or evaluation restrictions will be enforced, and that anyone E-5 (Sergeant) or above who accepts the orders will get a one-grade promotion, $5,000, and then $1,500 a month if they accept a one-year extension of the duty. And then, if the recruiter recruits 24 people in a one-year period, they get another one-grade promotion.
To put that in perspective, the first year ($5K bonus plus E-5 to E-6 promotion), will be about 24-30% increase in pay, and the $1,500 extra per month for the next year will be a 50% bonus on top of that (and the E-7 promotion on top of that). So, a newly minted E-5 on their first enlistment could be an E-7 two years from now, doubling their pay (2nd year E-5 makes $2,730 a month, fourth year E-7 with the extension bonus would be making $5,405 a month).
Anyone want to bet against the Army dropping or severely reducing their recruitment standards?
Putting the hilarity of trannies and homos breaking their nails and dying by tripping on a stray tires on the ground aside...
Sending all those soldiers to die in WW2 really altered the entire voting demographics in the country. The tip of the spear was most likely to die (by merit of being the tip of the spear), but they were also the most rugged.
I fully expect either full-on waivers for people already in the student loan programs, or the diversity hires are the ones all in airconditioned buildings laughing into radios at the real men getting blown up by roadside IEDs.
And for a military that did nothing while their leadership pledged fealty to foreign nations and followed the installed Resident and his regime, I can't say I'm crying any tears.
Two point. One, in WWII, the highest fatality rates were actually among aviators and submariners, so per capita, we were killing off our smartest kids. And as far as the killing goes, WWI was worse. Imagine the 1920s and 30s if there hadn't been mass bloodshed in the trenches.