Too fat to fight! Four star general says
Americans are too obese or criminal to
join the armed forces and defend the country:
Enlistment is at its lowest since after
the Vietnam War
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Vanessa Serna
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/6/2022 5:37:37 PM
Recruitment numbers for the Army are at historic lows as Americans are either too fat or criminal to join the defend the country, an Army general warned. Lt. Gen Xavier Brunson, the commander of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, theorized as to why recruitment is so low following a July statement from the Army that announced it wouldn't meet its 485,000 recruitment goal for 2022, falling short by a staggering 20,000 recruits. Officers across the country are failing to meet recruitment numbers as fewer youth are qualified to serve, which some blame on the COVID-19 pandemic.(Snip)
To increase recruitment numbers, the Army plans to 'lower the gates'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SALady 9/6/2022 5:44:36 PM (No. 1270230)
18-year-old boys have traditionally joined the armed forces to protect and defend their country, learn skills and discipline, and for the college aid when you get out.
But instead of learning how to use the newest weapons, and learn to fight hand-to-hand, they are learning how to be "woke" and being forced to get jabbed with vaccines that don't work and may very well kill them. So they aren't joining -- which is exactly the results that the lie-berals in our government wanted all along!!!
47 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/6/2022 5:57:44 PM (No. 1270233)
No one with a brain would enlist if the vax is mandatory. It’s an unlawful order to begin with and the generals pushing this are criminals.
46 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
joew9 9/6/2022 5:59:12 PM (No. 1270234)
Today our soldiers are not required to do anything that might break a nail.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HonestDon 9/6/2022 6:01:27 PM (No. 1270235)
Who, in their right mind, would want to join Biden's Army?? I'm a vet who proudly served but it was a different country back then.
48 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bogasso 9/6/2022 6:11:01 PM (No. 1270236)
No longer safe to pick up dropped bar of soap around there.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/6/2022 6:29:34 PM (No. 1270243)
He’s talking about Milley, right?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hybernicus 9/6/2022 6:30:20 PM (No. 1270244)
Too woke and too sissyfied thanks to public school indoctrination. But we still need a strong army of patriots to defend us from Marxists both within and outside our country. We can't just give up and take the passive slide to physical and spiritual destruction. God may be in charge but surely he doesn't expect us to not do anything for ourselves and our families.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 9/6/2022 6:34:17 PM (No. 1270246)
Fat can be fixed.
15 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
usmc0302 9/6/2022 6:35:33 PM (No. 1270248)
Agree with all the previous posters but why would a white 18 year old male enlist and fight only to be accused of being a white racist? White infantry died in out of proportion numbers to the general population only to be vilified by flag rank officers. Just like the elite in this country, they get promoted when they lose a war but God forbid if a Lance Corporal looses a rifle.
22 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/6/2022 6:35:38 PM (No. 1270249)
Not interested in defending a country and ways they've been taught to shun.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/6/2022 6:36:14 PM (No. 1270250)
For too long America's youth has been sent to fight with rules and rules of engagement.
They need to fight to win, and to win you kill off the enemy until they give up.
11 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/6/2022 6:38:12 PM (No. 1270253)
Unfortunately for US Army recruiting efforts the traditional warrior class who meet the enemy face to face on the battlefield are for the most part MAGA supporters and are not about to enlist and get crapped on by Biden's “woke” generals.
26 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 9/6/2022 6:48:27 PM (No. 1270260)
Young men who have been taught that this "sweet land of liberty" is worth defending with their lives are in short supply these days. Our young men today have been taught to revile and despise our country. Why on earth would they risk their lives to defend it?
16 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
dbdiva 9/6/2022 7:02:40 PM (No. 1270265)
If convincing themselves of that is helping them sleep through the night then so be it but those ain't the reasons. It must be wonderful to have the ability to crawl into an alternative universe when real world facts are too scary to accept.So many people seem to be purposely gaslighting themselves these days.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
watashiyo 9/6/2022 7:22:23 PM (No. 1270272)
#8, "Fat" can be fixed, but not "Stupid".
13 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bgarrett 9/6/2022 7:31:51 PM (No. 1270277)
When I was in Basic Training, the fat guys slimmed down and the skinny guys gained weight
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This general should be removed for fat shaming and for mocking those involved in the justice system! s/o
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dipi 9/6/2022 7:48:18 PM (No. 1270287)
One of the problems is that there is no leadership. Both the Secretary of Defense and the Armed Forces Chief of staff should have resigned over the Afghanistan fiasco last August last year.
14 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
bamboozle 9/6/2022 8:04:16 PM (No. 1270300)
Could this 4 star general pass the yearly physical fitness test required of all military?
9 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Brunsong 9/6/2022 8:17:31 PM (No. 1270310)
Officers like this have turned the US military into part of the Biden administration’s “endless conga line of circus freaks” which is why NO ONE wants to join.
13 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/6/2022 9:03:00 PM (No. 1270355)
There is no compelling reason for American youth to join the military. Seriously, what for? The glow of victory is long dissipated. What kid beginning his adult life will sign on for a hitch in occupied Iraq or, prior to our ignominious exit, Afghanistan? Maybe a tour in Somalia or Syria. There's still Germany. Times are "normal" in that sense. The US needs to get over itself as "Leader of the Free World" and restructure its military to meet OUR defense requirements rather than cover for the allied Free Loaders around the world. Not every "challenge" is ours to take on.
7 people like this.
Too many kids have or sell drugs and are protected because police can't do anything to them or they are let out of jail easily. They can party at colleges and now get their loans forgiven. Parents won't let them join or are helicopter parents. They can resign from an enlistment if it is too hard or stressful. There aren't any puppies or crayons there. They don't have gym classes or play outside yet alone sports to keep in shape. Why join the service when you can live in your parents' basement for free and live like a slob, play video games plus use your phone all day until you are at least in your forties?
7 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
bobn.t 9/6/2022 10:05:24 PM (No. 1270425)
Enlistment is slow because of:
Pathetic presidental leadership.
Senior military staff endorsing homosexuality.
Covid shots.
Stupid pronouns.
more, more, more
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 9/6/2022 10:45:09 PM (No. 1270458)
The leadership is the real problem, not potential candidates who are overweight. I imagine that the rigors of boot camp can help get extra weight off fast.
But again, the problem is the leadership, as too many "retired" officers demonstrate their deep political biases and proclivities. And this is a really big problem for us all.
7 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/6/2022 11:08:02 PM (No. 1270477)
No, general. The Army and all branches of service are too woke. Obama guaranteed that with his purge of captains and majors that didn't spout the Marxist doctrine during his term.
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The Army’s new physical fitness test is to run 3 times around General Milley.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/7/2022 1:15:21 AM (No. 1270531)
Yeah, blame fat people. How about you blame yer woke policies? Who wants to defend what this nation has become under leftists?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 9/7/2022 4:32:25 AM (No. 1270567)
Because Biden and his minions drove everyone else from the military. The only recruits left are those who cannot function in the real world.
2 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/7/2022 4:37:31 AM (No. 1270571)
Why is recruitment so low? Because no one wants to join Joey's cut and run and leave citizens behind policy.
0 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 9/7/2022 5:33:57 AM (No. 1270599)
We'll general, when's the next drag queen show on your base? Too fat, mentally unfit are the results of our psychologists, gender bending, propaganda teaching education system. Start there if you want changes.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 9/7/2022 5:35:48 AM (No. 1270601)
Reply to #7. Those patriots are vets like myself who love this country. I never saw an expiration date on the Oath of Enlistment I swore to 48 years ago.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/7/2022 6:23:33 AM (No. 1270616)
Ever seen Milli Vanilli?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 9/7/2022 9:00:36 AM (No. 1270749)
My friend was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. He was in radio contact with the overwhelming firepower flying overhead, but the pilot was not allowed to engage until the ambush had already commenced. Thanks, Obama. And then just ELEVEN YEARS later, his family was left wondering what, exactly, his death had accomplished for either the USA or the Afghani people. When you add this to all of the other reasons posted above, why would my friend's parents want to encourage any other family members to enlist?
3 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Talk2 9/7/2022 11:12:18 AM (No. 1270887)
Obama has made good on his vow to "fundamentally change" this country. Can anyone else remember his pledge to build a civilian police force to rival the Army? It appears he and Biden are making good on that - IRS. Do you remember his purge of the military over his eight years? Stalin did it and Obama was indoctrinated in the ways of communism so it follows he would pick a vice president he could control and would do his bidding. Little did we know he also picked a VP who could be bought like a cheap suit and was blackmailable. IMHO, Obama hates this country and always has so denigrating the military and reducing our ability to defend ourselves can be seen today in recruitment goals and military leadership ate up with wokeness. I spent over 30 years in the military so feel qualified to say this "wokeness" garbage is destroying unit cohesion and without that we are just a rabble. Hasn't that been the plan from the beginning of Obama/Biden?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
broken01 9/8/2022 11:56:36 AM (No. 1271973)
Look at who we have as our Commander-in-Chief, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Chief of Staff and the Sergeant Major of the Army. Would you join up today?
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