{"id":177363,"date":"2025-12-18T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=177363"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:56:00","slug":"cat-iv-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177363","title":{"rendered":"Cat IV Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177365 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gump-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gump-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gump.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Project 100,000<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember the recruitment crisis where military enlistment goals fell short by some 41,000 applicants? The excuses fell like autumn leaves-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A strong economy, which resulted in many more options for young people.<\/li>\n<li>A smaller eligible population- everything from drugs, tats, gangs and obesity barred entry.<\/li>\n<li>Generation Z, the generation born from 1997 to 2012, had generally low trust in institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Generation Z decreasingly followed traditional life and career paths.<\/li>\n<li>Young people have fewer family members who served, which decreases the propensity to serve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the more ill-advised stopgap measures was lowering enlistment standards for ASVAB Cat Iv recruits. Shades of MacNamara&#8217;s Morons! Seems they cooked these numbers too.<\/p>\n<h3>Army, Navy underreported low-scoring recruits, DOD watchdog finds<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Eve Sampson<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Pentagon watchdog found that the Army and Navy failed to accurately calculate the number of recruits who scored low on military aptitude tests, a practice that risked circumventing legal limits and rules meant to govern enlistment quality.<\/p>\n<p>The Army and Navy counted scores earned after enlistees attended their respective preparatory programs, the Future Soldier Preparatory Course and Future Sailor Preparatory Course, instead of the marks recruits received when they first signed up, a Dec. 11 report by the Department of Defense Inspector General said.<\/p>\n<p>The report specifically discusses Category IV enlistments, which are recruits scoring in the 10th to 30th percentile on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, a battery of metrics used by the services to assess eligibility and recruit quality. Congress capped the number of enlistees who can join the service with scores in that range at 4% of the total incoming population.<\/p>\n<p>Using original test scores, the Navy\u2019s Category IV enlistments would have totaled 11.3% of fiscal year 2025 accessions as of March 31, compared to 7.2% under the recalculated rate. The report said the Army also exceeded 10%, although it did not specify the exact figure.<\/p>\n<p>The branches can exceed that limit with approval from the secretary of defense, who must notify the House and Senate armed services committees within 30 days. Category IV enlistments exceeding 10% trigger additional statutory requirements, including formal notification to Congress and the use of mandatory preparatory programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/12\/17\/army-navy-underreported-low-scoring-recruits-dod-watchdog-finds\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real reason for such low enlistments was never addressed- the surge of DEI and the White Supremacy witch hunt had repulsed the largest pool of normally reliable recruits- white males from middle America.<\/p>\n<p>This has recently changed with entirely predictable results but are there still remnants of the prior admin that need to be purged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 100,000 Remember the recruitment crisis where military enlistment goals fell short by some 41,000 applicants? &hellip; <a title=\"Cat IV Follies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177363\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cat IV Follies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":177365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,225,693],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-blue-falcons","category-dei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}