Miltary Readiness Has Been Gutted

The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years, The Associated Press has learned, as the service struggles to lure soldiers into certain critical jobs amid the continuing pandemic.

Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, head of Army Recruiting Command, told AP that shuttered schools and the competitive job market over the past year have posed significant challenges for recruiters. So heading into the most difficult months of the year for recruiting, the Army is hoping that some extra cash and a few other changes will entice qualified young people to sign up.

Miltary Readiness Has Been Gutted

For some time now, I have been wondering how our military personnel have been coping with all of these social justice training, indoctrination, mandates and the draconian vaccine mandates and what their potential effects are going to be on our overall readiness to confront any future crises that may arise by this administration's haphazard associations toward our potential future adversaries.

Given that this administration doesn't have a clue in how to approach these adversaries in a mutually satisfactory dialog, I fear that their draconian approach could potentially trigger Putin to make the first move and preemptively invade Ukraine and dare the United States and its NATO allies to either eat crow or shut the F### up.

Today, I find this article posted on the Gateway Pundit that reveals just bad our overall readiness is becoming. When previously unheard of enlistment bonuses have to be offered to entice new enlistment, patriotism to enlist has to be at an all-time low.

When they find they can't recruit enough US citizens to fill their ranks, I suspect they will eventually turn to men and women of other nationalities to fill these vacancies. At this point, our military will essentially become a mercenary fighting force that will have no reservations about turning their might onto this nation's citizens.

These power hungry vultures that have seized control of our government will have no reservations in how or what they will have to do to remain in power, and will even go so far as to destroying this Democratic Republic to do so.

This is why I previously commented, in another thread that, there will be no presidential election in 2024.

If the masses do not wake up, we are lost as a nation of free peoples.

I should have put this in the rant forum.

Hundreds of servicemembers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have already been purged for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid.

A military person posted to Twitter last month that his unit feels they are now better suited to protest on behalf of "woke" causes, than they are to defend our country.

When I was in (late 80's - 90's) I served with several foreign nationals. In BMT there was a kid from Russia and one from Mozambique. I served with a guy from England for a few years as well as others here here and there. Once they completed their enlistment or re-upped the program served as an avenue to citizenship.

originally posted by: Antisocialist
"... draconian vaccine mandates ..."

And this is how we tell that you have never been in the military.

The military has ALWAYS had draconian vaccine mandates. Having your troops or their dependents sick with preventable diseases isn't good for military readiness. My shot record (as a dependent) is lengthy.

Today, I find this article posted on the Gateway Pundit that reveals just bad our overall readiness is becoming. When previously unheard of enlistment bonuses have to be offered to entice new enlistment, patriotism to enlist has to be at an all-time low.

Low pay (many military families are on food stamps), long hours, frequent moves ...and really low pay... have more to do with it than anything you're thinking about.

When they find they can't recruit enough US citizens to fill their ranks, I suspect they will eventually turn to men and women of other nationalities to fill these vacancies.

You're a bit late to the party, my friend. The US has been doing that ever since the revolutionary war. One of my ancestors was recruited from Saxony (Germany) to fight in the Revolutionary War. And the policy has been (for a long time) to give immigration preference to people who served in the US military.

You may not remember it, but there was a huge howl about them being deported under the last administration (news article on this from 2017). They are currently asking to be let back in and to become citizens, as was promised.

Obama did a bang-up job of firing and replacing high-level military figures with politically motivated 'yes men' and defunding; Sleepy Creepy has picked up where Obama left off,; taking inflation into account, the 1.6% increase in military spending actually works out to a 715 billion dollar decrease, along with all the orders to turn the military branches into 'woke folk' with their brainwashing....er ' military training'.
Our military has been weakened far too much in past years to be able to back up Crappy Pants Joe's 'tough guy' rhetoric.

a reply to: Byrd

And this is how we tell that you have never been in the military.

The military has ALWAYS had draconian vaccine mandates. Having your troops or their dependents sick with preventable diseases isn't good for military readiness. My shot record (as a dependent) is lengthy.

This is so true!
The military has and is still used as Guinea pigs for every kind of medical testing.
How do you think Guillian Barre was discovered?

I'm sure the highly skilled recruits are waiting to serve under a legitimate president. No one in their right mind would serve under a braindead child sniffer.

a reply to: Byrd

4 years in the USAF, smartass.

Vietnam era, and I didn't care for our leadership, LBJ, then either.

a reply to: Byrd

Hahahaha... Dependant.. Hahahahaj

Do you know who my husband is!?!.... Hahahahaaha

a reply to: watchitburn

Whenever someone says, "do you know who my husband is?", get ready.

Who is he?

a reply to: Antisocialist

Bring back the draft!

a reply to: Byrd

Having your troops or their dependents sick with preventable diseases

So vaccines prevent you from getting the disease?

I thought they were to keep you out of the hospital?

Im so confused

originally posted by: nugget1

Our military has been weakened far too much in past years to be able to back up Crappy Pants Joe's 'tough guy' rhetoric.

Joe Biden uses our military at the wrong time, anyway. He could have used them to prevent the suicide bombing murder of so many Americans and Afghans back in August 2021, but he "thought it over" for too long.

Out of embarrassment, Biden ordered our military to blow up a Kabul ice-cream truck and several children a few days later, just to show what a tough commander-in-chief he is.

a reply to: DBCowboy

If they keep up with this BS, they will have to.

a reply to: just4fun

No, they are intended to corral the herd and decrease it's populations. The elite are pursuing mass exterminations. United Nations Agenda 21.

getting ready for us though

Army to stage 'realistic' guerrilla war exercise in rural Carolinas

The drill will take place Jan. 22 to Feb. 4 on privately owned land across 25 counties in North Carolina and three counties in South Carolina, the U.S. Army's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School said in a news release.


The Army did not provide the exact times and locations of the exercises, which will include the candidates fighting against “realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters” in a fictional, unstable country known as Pineland.

“Candidates are placed in an environment of political instability characterized by armed conflict, forcing Soldiers to analyze and solve problems to meet the challenges of this ‘real-world’ training,” the school noted.

thehill.com...

originally posted by: Antisocialist
a reply to: Byrd

4 years in the USAF, smartass.

Vietnam era, and I didn't care for our leadership, LBJ, then either.

Then you remember about the forced vaccines and the low pay and the foreign nationals in the military and all that. And the drafts because we couldn't find enough soldiers... and so on and so forth.

And you're aware that the current situation isn't what caused recruiting problems. We've had them all along and recruiters have lowered admission standards to try and fill ranks. Unlike when you went in, by 2008 they were accepting people without high school diplomas-- that's how bad it has been for quite awhile.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Byrd

Hahahaha... Dependant.. Hahahahaj

Do you know who my husband is!?!.... Hahahahaaha

Nope. Do you know who my brother is?

Come to think of it, do you know who MY husband is? Or my boss?

Do you know the way to San Jose?

originally posted by: just4fun
a reply to: Byrd

Having your troops or their dependents sick with preventable diseases

So vaccines prevent you from getting the disease?

I thought they were to keep you out of the hospital?

Im so confused

I'm sorry that you're confused. Perhaps you've been getting conflicting information from many sources. You can't build a good logical response if you've got bad sources.

There's actually three types of vaccines (now four) and on the fabulous site, "How Stuff Works" you can learn about the different types. So some of the vaccinations I got WERE to prevent a disease (typhoid, for example.) Some (chicken pox) couldn't prevent the disease completely but ensured that you didn't get a more severe form.

I understand that it's a complicated subject. I hope this clears it up for you. The Mayo Clinic has a nice site on vaccines as does Wikipedia. You can use them to read further about the subject.

With this exercise
Army to stage 'realistic' guerrilla war exercise in rural Carolinas
BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 01/11/22 11:24 AM EST

“realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters” in a fictional, unstable country known as Pineland.

“Candidates are placed in an environment of political instability characterized by armed conflict, forcing Soldiers to analyze and solve problems to meet the challenges of this ‘real-world’ training,” the school noted.

thehill.com...

The order to ground air traffic the other day and now this I think someone is scared!!

Add to that whitehouse live cameras down it seems
WEBCAM WASHINGTON D.C. WHITE HOUSE LIVE STREAM
www.earthtv.com...

And they've boarded up Parliament Square
Cameras removed