Anonymous wrote:It’s unbelievable how dumb people online are. I don’t know how people seriously believe there is a draft when joining the military now is so damn hard. The Air Force literally stopped recruiting through the rest of 2026 because they have too many people. You can’t pass MEPS unless you basically have perfect health. Very few waivers are given. There won’t be a draft

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.



Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

No they are actually recruiting maga types and white nationalists.

Anonymous wrote:It’s unbelievable how dumb people online are. I don’t know how people seriously believe there is a draft when joining the military now is so damn hard. The Air Force literally stopped recruiting through the rest of 2026 because they have too many people. You can’t pass MEPS unless you basically have perfect health. Very few waivers are given. There won’t be a draft

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump and Hegseth literally made it much harder to join the military in 2025. It was much easier to join under Biden

What is with this misuse of the world literally by some/many younger people? I literally went to the store. Sue literally bought a new car. Tom literally called me.

Are you over 100 years old? People having been using literally this way literally for decades.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s unbelievable how dumb people online are. I don’t know how people seriously believe there is a draft when joining the military now is so damn hard. The Air Force literally stopped recruiting through the rest of 2026 because they have too many people. You can’t pass MEPS unless you basically have perfect health. Very few waivers are given. There won’t be a draft

Air Force will not be fighting on the ground. The US does not have the troop strength needed to invade Iran. The US needs about 800,000 to 1,000,000 combat arms troops to invade. Supporting that number requires x10 the support troops. So yes we need the draft.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

They are absolutely recruiting mentally il people now more than ever, and you don’t have to be able to do 20 pull-ups to do most of the work of modern warfare. It’s so stupid that it’s not even worth arguing about. We are going to be far less prepared than we already are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

No they are actually recruiting maga types and white nationalists.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

I don’t think the military is made more combat effective by allowing mentally ill people who insist they are another gender, or physically unfit people in poor shape, to serve.

Both groups are detriments, not assets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a bad thing to raise physical fitness and combat trainability standards, and exclude people with gender dysphoria-related mental illness?


I fail to understand how doing any of those things hurts the effectiveness of our military or makes us any more vulnerable as a nation.


Care to explain your reasoning?

I mean, it’s kind of stupid and definitely super outdated thinking in 2026, it only serves to keep out otherwise qualified people. That’s OK, that kind of stupidity is to be expected of a Hegseth led military, but it’s way more silly when you take into account the fact that they are now taking people up to 42 years of age and people have questionable ethics and morals. This is not about fitness for combat it’s about implementing some childish version of what incompetent leaders view of what the military should be based upon their heroes like Vladimir Putin. I mean, sure, they will let in a bunch of child molesters and criminals as long as they can do 100 push-ups, but they’re going to exclude people that are actually capable of fighting a 21st-century war.

Anyway, I was more responding to someone’s false assertion that it’s more difficult to get into the military. They only made it more difficult for qualified people.

Anonymous wrote:It’s unbelievable how dumb people online are. I don’t know how people seriously believe there is a draft when joining the military now is so damn hard. The Air Force literally stopped recruiting through the rest of 2026 because they have too many people. You can’t pass MEPS unless you basically have perfect health. Very few waivers are given. There won’t be a draft