{"id":152295,"date":"2024-01-23T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152295"},"modified":"2024-01-23T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:11:51","slug":"rand-academia-discover-military-has-recruiting-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152295","title":{"rendered":"Rand, Academia Discover Military Has Recruiting Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStill Not Picking Up<\/em><\/p>\n

The Military Recruiting Outlook Is Grim Indeed. Loss of Public Confidence, Political Attacks and the Economy Are All Taking a Toll.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Richard Sisk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recruiting patterns in the military have increasingly come to reflect the nation’s red state-blue state political divide, with recruiting strong in the South and Midwest but lagging on the coasts, retired Army Brig. Gen. Michael Meese said at a Rand Corp. event Thursday.<\/p>\n

“When you look at it regionally, the North and the West tend to be less positive” on military service “than the South and the Midwest,” said Meese, the former head of West Point’s Department of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n

“The implications of that for recruiting are problematic,” he said, “because where are you going to fish” to fill out the ranks?
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\nThe military also has to contend with drawing recruits from a stressed-out society, according to the latest “Stress in America” survey conducted by the Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association and released in November.<\/p>\n

“The COVID-19 pandemic, global conflicts, racism and racial injustice, inflation, and climate-related disasters are all weighing on the collective consciousness of Americans,” the survey said.
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\nDuke University political science Professor Peter Feaver, who moderated the discussion with Wormuth, told Military.com last Thursday that charges of wokeness in the military have primarily come from Republicans who have shifted from “adoration of the military to criticism of the military.”<\/p>\n

“There’s no evidence that the military itself is woke” or has been taken over by the political left, Feaver said in a phone interview…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a>
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\nActive-duty drag queen Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley<\/em><\/p>\n

Then there’s this:
\nUS Army Shuts Down Comments on \u2018Woke\u2019 YouTube Videos After Barrage of Mockery<\/strong>
\nBy Cassandra MacDonald
\nGateway Pundit<\/a>
\nThe Emma Malonelord Youtube video generated 3,400 “likes.” It was the 61,000 DISlikes along with comments that seems to have upset Big Army. The first step in troubleshooting is to recognize you have a problem. The recruiting crisis will continue until what passes for leadership stops living in denial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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