I know some who left after decades of honorable service because they were disrespected by the leadership. Every time it was "White male? Sorry, your career is distinguished but not in the way we're looking for right now."
I know with Gen Z they have skits mocking dying for Israel. Still, hard to tell. They have chased off a lot of people over the years but normie is going to normie...
I wish there was an actual legitimate study done to show the numbers. As is no real way to tell.
I wonder how much of is real and how much of it is them cooking the books though. I'm willing to believe that there was a real increase especially early on (like the first 6 months of 2025), but raising the enlistment age and making moral waivers easier isn't how the military behaves when it's meeting recruiting targets.
Well, of course they would. Just like they claim the USS Gerald Ford was decommissioned for TWO WEEKS due to a "small contained laundry fire" and NOT at all because it ate an Iranian missile. 🙄
They could have very easily pushed the DEI hires out within a year. The military isn’t the same as other government agencies, you can be force retired at any point.
There's a contingent of clueless older Republican guys who think that a handful of executive orders and an occasional Supreme Court ruling going our way undoes decades and decades of losses.
These people see a headline on the TV and assume that it represents real change. They can't internalize that changes in "rules" aka, words on paper, don't have magic effects on the real world. You need to actually change people to change the reality on the ground.
Trump came in with promises, and made a bit of a show about some of them in the first few months, but really, he’s actually done nothing. He’s not made a show of doing it when in reality, it’s not happening.
I've seen people draw exclusion letters before, but usually it is for real crimes committing on base, or for harassing a servicemember. This, right here, is a commanding officer being a vindictive dick just because, and I suspect that there is more to this story that is being reported.
I guarantee people are carrying on that base on a daily basis, they just don't declare their firearm to the gate guards.
Also, Hegseth's recently issued guidance does not apply to retirees, so that video is besides the point.
They made a lot of noise about it though. I wonder how many white men they conned into enlisting.
I know some who left after decades of honorable service because they were disrespected by the leadership. Every time it was "White male? Sorry, your career is distinguished but not in the way we're looking for right now."
I know with Gen Z they have skits mocking dying for Israel. Still, hard to tell. They have chased off a lot of people over the years but normie is going to normie...
I wish there was an actual legitimate study done to show the numbers. As is no real way to tell.
They're saying enlistment has increased enormously, already beating annual targets.
I wonder how much of is real and how much of it is them cooking the books though. I'm willing to believe that there was a real increase especially early on (like the first 6 months of 2025), but raising the enlistment age and making moral waivers easier isn't how the military behaves when it's meeting recruiting targets.
Well, of course they would. Just like they claim the USS Gerald Ford was decommissioned for TWO WEEKS due to a "small contained laundry fire" and NOT at all because it ate an Iranian missile. 🙄
Counterpoint, did anyone here think that all the DEI hires would just vanish in a puff of smoke after a year?
They could have very easily pushed the DEI hires out within a year. The military isn’t the same as other government agencies, you can be force retired at any point.
Legally, yes. Realistically, only the clone of Patton could have accomplished that in a year.
There's a contingent of clueless older Republican guys who think that a handful of executive orders and an occasional Supreme Court ruling going our way undoes decades and decades of losses.
These people see a headline on the TV and assume that it represents real change. They can't internalize that changes in "rules" aka, words on paper, don't have magic effects on the real world. You need to actually change people to change the reality on the ground.
I agree.
Trump came in with promises, and made a bit of a show about some of them in the first few months, but really, he’s actually done nothing. He’s not made a show of doing it when in reality, it’s not happening.
I've seen people draw exclusion letters before, but usually it is for real crimes committing on base, or for harassing a servicemember. This, right here, is a commanding officer being a vindictive dick just because, and I suspect that there is more to this story that is being reported.
I guarantee people are carrying on that base on a daily basis, they just don't declare their firearm to the gate guards.
Also, Hegseth's recently issued guidance does not apply to retirees, so that video is besides the point.
Just some self-righteous cunt flexing her power.
How many feminists who hate the US constitution are in the military?
Plenty.
Zognald and Hegsheeit!
Do people think that you can just change the dude at the top and the entire bureaucracy changes their ideology?
That's how chain of command seems to work when leftists are in charge.
That's because the ideology of the bureaucracy matches the leader. The leader is just stating what the middle is already doing.
This can basically be said across the board.
Lots of Fox News headline triumphs, and very few Leftists fired from their jobs, prosecuted and hanged.