This isn't ideology, I think, so much as Zoomers just being practical. Like, they've seen what happened to the millennials who signed up to fight in Iraq. Every last one of them was extremely fucked up by the experience, and then they came home to a VA that is completely fucking worthless. Very high rates of suicide and domestic problems. Then there's all the problems with black mold and cockroaches you see at the barracks and stuff, shit like National Guard soldiers activated during the January 6 incident getting food poisoning while guarding the people who make the laws.

Like, who the fuck would look at that and think "sign me up"?

Haha eat shit

Nobody wants to fight for burgers anymore, so sad

with enough aggressive posting we can get that number to 80,000

The space force made its recruiting goals lmao

And yet my fucking childhood best friend turned to the dark and signed up this year, all because he didn't have a path in life or some shit 😞

The causes of the recruiting challenges "are complex and multifaceted," Vazirani said. They include:

A strong economy, which has resulted in many more options for young people.
A smaller eligible population. Generation Z, the generation born from 1997 to 2012, generally has a low trust in institutions. Generation Z has decreasingly followed traditional life and career paths. Young people have fewer family members who served, which decreases the propensity to serve.

Benefits of joining the military, he said, include:

Competitive pay and benefits. Career training. A meaningful and motivating mission.

Funny how the US satanic army manages to find the solution to why the recruitment turn out is low, but private companies still insist in giving pizza times

The article doesn't mention that total annual recruitment is on the order of 200,000. So, 20% down, 80% to go.

Nobody wants to die for empire anymore!

SMDH! Won't anyone think of the yachts and empty condos!?

fill in the blank: the only good yankee soldier is a _ _ _ _ one

Death to America

They're going to try to make military service mandatory, aren't they?

What's wrong with you people, why are you cheering. The US Army didn't miss its recruitment goal by a single person, and you're applauding.

It is not a uniquely American phenomenon by the way. Other NATO militaries are claiming to have recruiting problems.

One might hope that solve of it happens because young people today are better people than they used to be. But mostly it is about them having better options. They can get jobs where they don't have to get shot at, don't have to go away from their families, don't have to work irregular hours, don't have to be around fascists all the time and where the pay is better.

may the number go up 📈 🙏