Anonymous wrote:Last I heard, Trump was bragging about record numbers of recruits. The unfortunate fact is that 75% of young people are not eligible to enlist.

Obesity epidemic. It's the food and the preservatives and cheap ingredients slop they put in it.

Anonymous wrote:We have homeless vets. We have vets with such severe PTSD that their families are afraid of them and they can't work. The VA can't care for all their vets. I think we should fix those problems before we create more future vets.

Republicans already solved that problem! "Involuntary lethal injections" is their final solution to the vet problem.

Anonymous wrote:Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.

Sounds like you have a really great, fact-based grasp on things and data-driven understanding of what’s going on in the world. Turn off Fox News and go for a walk.

A quick Google search will tell you that all the services have hit their recruitment targets early this year.

Anonymous wrote:Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.

WTF?

Trump will reinstate the draft.

Good job MAGA only white Christian boys need apply.

If we had another world war, I question whether it would involve a lot of ground troops.

I think the bigger question is if we have enough drone pilots or warhead maintenance engineers or whatever.

The US has facilitated Ukraine staying in this war with Russia primarily through giving them technology and heavy weaponry that makes it easier to fight with a smaller force. Meanwhile Russia is bribing people to join the military with huge bonuses (or getting help from North Korea). The reason Russians are tolerating this war so well, other than the fact that Putin will jail them or kill them if they vocally oppose it, is that Russians don't perceive the loss of life as tragic because most of the soldiers signed up in exchange for big cash bonuses to them and their families. So they've created a kind of mercenary military and the view of other Russians is "oh well that's what they signed up for."

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Anonymous wrote:Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.

No and if there is another world wide war the draft will be reinstated. Trump would love to do it but Melania would kill him because her crown prince Barron would be eligible.

I'm sure he has inherited bunions.

Bone spurs

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Anonymous wrote:Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.

No and if there is another world wide war the draft will be reinstated. Trump would love to do it but Melania would kill him because her crown prince Barron would be eligible.

I'm sure he has inherited bunions.

Anonymous wrote:Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.

No and if there is another world wide war the draft will be reinstated. Trump would love to do it but Melania would kill him because her crown prince Barron would be eligible.

We have homeless vets. We have vets with such severe PTSD that their families are afraid of them and they can't work. The VA can't care for all their vets. I think we should fix those problems before we create more future vets.

We don’t, actually. The Army created a fat camp because it can’t recruit anyone.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-us-militarys-recruiting-crisis

Hegseth hates women in the military, so that seriously cuts the pool, too.

Anonymous wrote:Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.

No one should be entering the military right now with clown car alcoholic Pete and Trump.

Wrong most people want to work you moron. Go back to the stupid hole you climbed out of MAGA.

Last I heard, Trump was bragging about record numbers of recruits. The unfortunate fact is that 75% of young people are not eligible to enlist.

Now a days, seems like a lot of people don't want to work. The military don't attract people like they use to; seems like kids would rather sell drugs or do crime. If we were to be in WWIII, I worry we would not be prepared and have enough manpower.