WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
I guess it’s going to take more than a Top Gun sequel.
Swab the poop deck!
You’ll get it swabbed alright
Finger the semen!
Gosh, maybe no one wants to support the military industrial complex, since we aren’t getting the American dream anymore.
Surely this will not cause reliability and readiness issues over the next decade.
Have they tried subliminal, liminal, and superluminal recruitment?
Yvan eht nioj
Fucking pay them better instead
Also, don’t start unnecessary wars based on lies.
Maybe stop supporting genocide or sumfin
Oh for sure, that what the Navy needed when I was in. More shitbags.
Yes, the pay is shit, but the benefits are stunning. And it’s not like you have to pay for the things a civilian does. Tons of free shit. Start at 18, hang in 20-years, and you’re fucking set at 38 years old.
Imagine that. 38-yo, pulling retirement for life, and right at your prime. Best friend in high school joined the Army. Did however many years (single digit), spent the rest in the Guard. Basically fucked off at 39, started consulting for the DoD and fixes/collects classic cars for kicks. He mainly works to finance his hobbies and to stave off boredom. We’re 53 this year.
My wife is Filipina, all those girls married military guys. There’s a total of 2 of us in the whole gang that never served. Those guys are long retired and riding high.
It’s because low level enlisted is paid like shit.
And now they are recruiting from those w/o HS or GED. The people already struggling to find employement.
Poverty recruitment! Yay…
Pay wasn’t my son’s concern. His concern in 2016 was that Trump would be his commander in chief.
My cousin left the navy for that exact reason. Of course, she actually had to work with Trump, so I imagine that didn’t help.
IN THE NAVY~!
You can sail the seven seas~
IN THE NAVY~!
You don’t need a G.E.D.~
Standards Aweigh, my boys, Standards Aweigh!
Their recruitment ads are getting laughably desperate, too–all crazy CGI and sci-fi fantasies aimed at gullible COD nerds. They almost got me (poor kid straight out of high school, I was vulnerable) and haven’t stopped chasing me ever since. It’s been like 8 years and I still get recruitment material targeted at me, somehow–one of them even texted me like a year or two ago.
Maybe if they paid better, took better care of veterans, and weren’t part of a bloodthirsty genocide machine slaughtering innocent people, they wouldn’t be having so much trouble.
Yvan eht Nioj!!
You want a high number of quality employees? Stop reducing the standards and start increasing pay.
Full fucking stop.
Also, stop making Americans kill innocent civilians in poor countries.
People are a lot more likely to sign up if there’s no risk of actual fighting happening. With Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Palestine and potentially China/Taiwan soon I’m not surprised people are reluctant to join.
This seems the right place to post this lecture on “Macnamaras morons”. Young men with intellectual disabilities that were drafted to fight in Vietnam. Absolutely disgusting policy and heartbreaking for the families and the drafted men.
Plus a disaster for the army. It reduced its effective force because most of the men drafted with disabilities required a full time buddy to navigate most simple tasks. Literally it failed in every way possible.
Sure, but a grade 12 or not is more situational than anything indicating intelligence. Yeah it’s mostly ubiquitous now, but that doesn’t change it’s no real indication.
