According to Gallup’s annual survey measuring confidence in U.S. institutions, 64% of Americans say they have confidence in the nation’s military. NBC News Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube explores why the armed services are struggling to recruit members to join their ranks.
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Have a draft h don’t go u go to prison an can be a traitor lol
Benghazi, captured sailors day of Iran deal, ft hood texas, getting out of Iraq and having to go back, afghanistan and Ukraine Haiti and china now. Biden calls half of this nation racist and facist and all kinds of names and it is affecting recruits and active military numbers now. The Vax mandate and the firings in the thousands, crt and white privilege accusations coming from the pentagon towards the people who volunteer. Beyond cruel anymore just makes it harder to sign away 8 years of their life.
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Outdated perception? How about the fact that women keep getting killed and assaulted while their abusers are protected.
Maybe if they promised bonuses for smoking “Enemies of Democracy,” the armed forces might get more takers.
Woke military thanks to biden. M.A.G.A
Ofcourse they wanna recruit more to have peasants fight and die in there battles for them
go woke go broke
Perhaps if we end the forever wars, the foreign occupations and stop telling Americans that they will be dying for other countries people would again want to join.
Interestingly I personally say that I know Afghanistan vets who are actively discouraging people from joining the military
What is it gonna take another 9/11 for it to go up that’s just sad
There afraid of deploying? That’s like saying a baseball player is scared to play baseball…
Vaccine mandates and woke training is why we can’t recruit!
Democrats are destroying our military.
The reason is they see how the soldiers are treated after they get out of the military they give up their time and lies, and then are released as if they never ever count it so a lot of people see that now look at the past veterans they haven’t been treated right so therefore the new generation sees it and don’t want to deal with it
They will have to lower the standards right now it's to hard for anyone to enter
No one wants to serve a country that does not care out the people the constitution or the flag
Outdated? WW3 knocking at the door… you'll be all deployed boys.
Non graduates your welcome
There Are No "Misconceptions", The Military Is What It Has Always Been Whether Signing Up Or Drafted 1) You Are Expendable 2) You Can Catch A Bullet Just As Good As The Next Guy 3) You Can Be Called Up At Anytime & Be Sent To Some Shithole On The Frontlines, As Cannon Fodder. People In Modern Times Have "Wised Up".
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I have an honorable discharge and applied for a VA loan benefit. I qualify for 450,000 but can't get the loan because I owe child support. Not a lot mind you, but do have some arearages. My debt to income is below 15 percent and my income is $140,000. So much for the VA Guaranteed Loan.
Where's the fine print that reads, "If you pay Child Support you don't qualify for a VA Home Loan?"
Start making androids 😊
Not many fighting men wear panties should have seen this coming
"To protect the nation" he says. Sounds good, but it doesn't play out that way most of the time these days. Going off to protect oil asset investments of a small group of American and Western individuals overseas isn't exactly protecting America. More along the lines of protecting the wealthy and their investments.
That isn't the Army's fault, but rather, lawmakers fault. The potential recruits are aware of this reality and frankly are right not to want to put their lives on the line for a tiny group of wealthy men and women that has nothing to do with protecting America.
When lawmakers tell wealthy investors they themselves must protect their own risky foreign investments because our military won't be used to protect their personal risky behavior, then the US Armed Forces will have far better recruitment success.
– RCC retired USN.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the reason why recruitment is honestly so low is because how many veterans got screwed out of their benefits and how many of them all had families or friends. Yeah…. I'm just going to say that's the reason why recruitment is low in my opinion.
The usa has weapon very good, it is very in war russ and ukraine
You can't blame the real men from not wanting to serve in some woke branch. Period.
Pedo Peter is so gross and creepy 🤮 endless war's open borders drug human trafficking endless fentanyl deaths ☠️💀☠️💀 high gas food prices 💰💰 endless corruption 🚨 China owns the Biden creepy family ⛽
I would have been when I turned 18 in the early 2000s I would have loved to been in the military but since I had a mental health background because when I was a child's tough s*** whatever happened to me and since I had a middle background for saying counselors I could not join the Army so that's f*** up y'all can make people crazy and s*** like that the United States Army but they won't take somebody that got hurt because they have a mental background that's not right man I'll die from my country
Personally, I thought about joining the military back in high school. One of the main reasons I wouldn’t consider it now is the lack of autonomy.
You have to have the same haircut as everyone else and you can’t have a beard, long sideburns, etc. As a person of color, I wouldn’t really want to meet a standard that was created for the average white male when my genetics are designed to be different.
I have a few family members that have served and I will support the military of course. I think they should look into their grooming standards/etc. and reevaluate if what they have now is best for a multicultural military. But I do understand wanting uniformity among the members as well.
It's almost like we just spent 20 years in a forever war in Afghanistan for nothing, nobody wants to die for the oil companies/bankers
You're a soldier deployment is part of the job
Time for an A.I. army U.S.
Nobody wants to fight in an endless war that benefits the elites. Also, NCO leadership at large in the Army is toxic. Nobody wants to be micromanaged. Who wants to fight for freedom that disappears when you enlist? The Secretary is clearly out of touch with what’s actually going on.
Sure I will risk my life to go fight a war to find WMD that don’t exist, so we can take over oil fields and our leaders can get rebuilding contracts for companies that they are invested in.
Sign me up to get shot protecting people that don’t want us invading their homeland. Lol
Drop the jab mandates and stop using the military as a social experiment. The purpose of the military is to fight and win wars. Go back to that and they’ll have less of a problem finding recruits.
Simple!… offer citizenship to immigrants for serving in the military for 10 years and you'd have the largest force in the world
ส่งระบบฮอกให้ยูเครนน้อยเกินไปเพราะการยึดคืนพื้นที่ไม่ได้แคบลงแต่มันกลับเป็นการเพิ่มพื้นที่ที่จะต้องรุกคืบและปกป้องส่งให้ยูเครนอย่างน้อยยี่สิบระบบมันมีข้อสัญญาตอนที่ปลดนิวเคลียร์ของยูเครนหากยูเครนถูกระเมิดอธิปไตยต้องทำตามข้อสัญญาแต่จะเข้าเป็นสมาชิกนาโต้ไม่ได้แต่เราจะให้ยูเครนสร้างความแข็งแกร่งของมันด้วยตัวของมันเอง
Maybe they see the lousy treatment veterans get.
Don’t do it. You’ll ruin your life or die fighting for corporate greed.
Do anything other than join the military.
And your weakness, amongst all your highly teched billion dollar military weapons. Within 3 years, you'll be knocking on your schools doors again.
As a broken vet. GOOD. HOW DID THE OUTCOME OF THE LAST FEW WARS GO? We LOST. Stay home people. Wokeism is not the problem, ignorance is.
Don’t do it. Iraq was the worse thing to happen to me. They don’t care about you when you get back.
The problem is a lack of diversity, especially in leadership roles. #BlackRepresentation