{"id":128144,"date":"2022-07-22T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128144"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:38:13","slug":"which-one-do-you-chose-army-readiness-or-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128144","title":{"rendered":"Which one do you chose, Army, readiness or wokeness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/woke1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/woke1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/woke1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/woke1-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/woke1.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Army reduced its force size estimates for 2022 and for 2023. The Army may miss its recruiting objectives for this year, causing a need to adjust the estimated manpower sizes for this year and for next year. Not being able to meet the recruiting goals amplifies a question that many have on Army readiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Daily Caller:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do we lower standards to meet end strength, or do we lower end strength to maintain a quality, professional force? We believe the answer is obvious&#8211;quality is more important than quantity,&#8221; Lt. Col. Randee Farrell, spokeswoman for Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into extremism in the ranks, diversity quotas, rigid vaccination mandates and other &#8220;woke&#8221; policies have undermined military recruitment by alienating families, the military&#8217;s largest recruiting market, according to Center for Military Readiness founder Elaine Donnelly. The Pentagon&#8217;s insistence on social justice over meritocracy, lowering of standards and &#8220;anti-recruiting messages&#8221; pushes away potential recruits, Donnelly told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secretary Wormuth is ignoring the &#8216;check engine&#8217; light on her dashboard.She keeps driving on, failing to notice how the administration&#8217;s policies are making the recruiting crisis worse,&#8221; said Donnelly. (RELATED: House Dems Hunt For &#8216;White Supremacy&#8217; In Military&#8217;s Ranks)<\/p>\n<p>The Army has achieved only 50% of its overall recruitment goal of 60,000 soldiers for fiscal year 2022 that ends in October, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>The Army attained 17,800 new recruits to active duty service out of a 2002 goal of 26,000 as of April, according to data from the Department of Defense. The recruitment objective fell 20% from 2021, when by April the Army had brought on 28,000 active duty recruits, well on its way to the yearly goal of 32,000.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, by April 2017, the Army had achieved nearly 100% of its active duty recruiting goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Caller has the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/20\/army-abandons-recruitment-goals-woke-policies\/\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army reduced its force size estimates for 2022 and for 2023. 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