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Are army recruitment numbers in the US way down over the last decade? It seems to me that the illusion of the US military being a force for good in the world has been shattered in Canada at least, and anti war sentiment has also been spreading towards some right wing movements in the states. That’s gotta be reflected in the recruitment numbers right?
Yea recruitment numbers have cratered because anybody of the right age to sign up has only seen the American military as a failing institution that loses meaningless wars against farmers halfway around the world combined with seeing how we treat veterans for their entire life.
But also something like 80% of Americans couldn't pass the basic fitness test.
Isn't the fitness test basically an easier version of one punch man's training? Like 100 pushups, 100 situps, run a 5k or some shit
Pretty sure it's more like 50x 50x 2 mile run.
Like I said 80% of Americans couldn't pass it.
It's really wild to me how lax that seems if such a high # of people couldn't do it. Like I'm kinda out of shape and I'm pretty sure I still got all that in me
It's probablly more like 60 to 70 percent that actually can't do it but if you take a 30 minute walk your easily the top 25% of Americans in terms of physical fitness.
The rest of the percentage comes from disqualifying anybody who needs psych prescriptions.