The Pentagon Owns Its Recruiting Crisis

The military is struggling to recruit and retain talent

• The Army, our largest service, is having the hardest time enticing young Americans.
• Fewer than one quarter of Americans in the prime recruitment age of 17-24 years can meet our military's physical, moral, or educational entry requirements, and that figure continues to decline.
• Only about 9% of young Americans have any desire to serve. Perhaps only 1% ever do.
  1. We might add to that list suicides, sexual assaults, social justice indoctrination, and Covid vaccination policies as dulling the shine of military service.
  2. While research indicates that military children are 5 times more likely to follow a parent into the service, only 1 in 4 do.
  3. Instead, we might think of them as communities celebrating life on a smaller and more intimate scale, and where patriotism, faith, family, and public service remain in fashion.
  4. While the service chiefs are begging Congress to fund more generous recruiting incentives, they have forcibly discharged thousands of vaccine dissenters – including most of those objecting on religious grounds. 

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-pentagon-owns-its-recruiting-crisis/