As we have covered numerous times, U.S. military recruiting has been abysmal for quite a while, with the various branches routinely missing their recruitment goals:
It has gotten so bad that the military has even resorted to using drag queens to boost reporting, as we reported: Navy Drag Queen Recruiters – Definitive Evidence that the Military has Lost Its Way
But the most brutal hit has been the U.S. Army, which “has hit 40% of its recruiting goals this year [2022], with the struggle to fill the ranks seemingly so grim the Defense Department reduced its planned total force size because prior recruiting goals were out of reach.”
So you would think that the Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth, pictured above, would dismantle the woke, transgender-centric Army that she and her Biden Administration cohorts have promoted to date and which is the apparent cause of the military’s recruitment woes.
Well, if that’s what you thought, you would be wrong.
In a breathless Army Times love fest entitled “Exclusive: The inside story of how the Army rethought recruiting“, the Army’s recruitment woes are allegedly largely out of the Secretary’s “control,” and caused a host of factors that have nothing to do with the Army’s own policies:
The Army can’t control childhood obesity rates. The Army can’t control the falling rate of applicants medically or legally eligible to enlist. Nor can the service stop seismic shifts in the labor market, or control the falling percentage of veterans, who are traditionally the most influential and trusted advocates for military service among the U.S. population.
But what the Army Secretary can do, despite alienating the majority of the country with its woke, transgender hit parade, is rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic:
But Wormuth, who announced sweeping recruiting reforms last week, is focused on what the Army can control.Some of the organizational moves can occur almost immediately with a stroke of her pen:
- Recruiting Command, led by Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, will now directly report to Army headquarters, instead of Training and Doctrine Command.
- The Army Enterprise Marketing Office, headed by Brig. Gen. Antoinette Gant, will now directly report to Recruiting Command.
Other changes will take years, though Army headquarters will soon issue orders detailing how the effort will unfold, Wormuth said.Some of those reforms include: focusing on recruiting Americans who have attended some college; creating experimental recruiting units to try new approaches without having to meet a quota; abolishing involuntary recruiting assignments in favor of a specialized recruiting MOS; or even bringing in those without prior service, but with relevant experience, to serve as recruiters.
Of course, Wormuth only took these current and planned actions after assembling a large group to “diagnose” the Army’s recruiting problem:
Perhaps the group’s most important contribution, Wormuth said, was to “diagnose the problems and give us the opportunity to make sure that across the Army, we all…see the problem in the same way.” [The group] focused on factors that the Army could influence.In recent years, Army and Defense Department data has shown that fewer young Americans can see themselves in uniform, recruiters are increasingly less productive, the academic quality and fitness of applicants has declined, and the Army’s once numerous soldiers-in-waiting have dried up.One of the major causes [the group] identified: the U.S. labor market has evolved in recent decades, but the Army’s accessions structures had not, Wormuth said. The trends run deeper than recent phenomena such as high employment. [emphasis added]
The remainder of the article goes into more detail about how the Army is going to refocus its recruiting force to be better at recruiting, but conspicuously absent is any discussion about why “fewer Americans can see themselves in uniform,” or why “the Army’s once numerous soldiers-in-waiting have dried up.”
That is unfortunate, but as the saying goes, there are none so blind as those who will not see, and it is obvious to me and many of my fellow military veterans that young people are not going to be attracted to serve in a military where drag queen servicemembers are encouraged to flaunt their multiple personalities, where military members are given copious amounts of free time and free health care to transition from one sex to another, where female servicemembers are required to shower and use toilets with men claiming to be women, where servicemembers are required to suffer vast amounts of DEI training, and where promotion is based on skin color more than technical and tactical competence.
Take a look:
The following is rather long-winded suggestion by a fellow veteran to do what is already happening:
Kurt Schlichter, as always, adroitly sums it up:
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