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Despite a barrage of hefty bonuses, loosened and more progressive enlistment requirements, and even the creation of innovative pre-boot camp programs, the U.S. military mostly fell short in efforts to bring more Americans into the services over the past year -- and it's unclear how or when that will change.
The kids now are all hardcore consumerists, nihilists, and hedonists
They dug their own grave by exploiting the youth so hard by attacking their brains to consoom
A generation of lotus eaters. Great.
did you ever read the Odessey the crew that joined the lotus eaters were the only ones besides Odysseus that didn't die. The marxist reading of the Odyssey is "tell your boss to fuck off and do drugs"
Oh no they’re all sissified femboys who would rather plague League than get their testicles mangled by an IED for Lockheed Martin like a real man.
exploiting the youth so hard by attacking their brains to consoom
It must be Chinese TikTok to blame why our children are useless gamers who want to be Vaush when they grow up!
long-standing issues ranging from the ineligibility of many young Americans to serve, a reduced propensity to serve overall, and other barriers to service are still exacerbating the recruiting problem and looming in the future.
The kids today are alright
Everyone's fat bc of horrible processed foods, sedentary lifestyle, depression, overwork, poverty, and stress. Everyone's cardiovascular system is riddled with covid. Everyone's mentally ill for the say reason we're all fat. Everyone's on weed. And no one has much faith left in the government. Plus based zoomers. Another example of capitalist autocannibalism at work. It's created conditions so bad that the state can't produce enough soldiers to man the empire.
that happened just before the end of the british empire too except then people were too thin because they were all on the verge of starvation. What really did in the British empire was when the British workforce became too malnutritioned to work on the level of their better fed American and German counterparts and thus the empires single remaining source of revenue dried up (by that point everything India had that could be easily stolen had been and people don't account for how expensive militarily occupying hundreds of millions of people is)
have they tried destroying the corporations and political class and instating communism? i bet that would help recruiting numbers 
Everyone sees the serious health problems veterans have. People see that the government has entirely abandoned them and the VA doesn't even do effective suicide prevention. Why the fuck would anyone join except ideology?
Unironically I thank Trump for going mask off and revealing to truth to everyone: soldiers are losers and suckers; disposable people for politicians. Of course people aren't going to sign up for that lmao
Before I had been infected with the woke mind virus and turned commie, I had seriously considered it.
Pay (considering you have little to no bills while enlisted) is quite good, more time off than most jobs, propaganda, and also a longing to belong to some sort of group since capitalism has made everybody extremely isolated. Oh and having little "marketable" skills kinda makes your future look bleak.
Thank god I didn't.
For me, I considered joining the Navy because it looked easy as fuck, you do nothing all day, and also because I felt directionless and needed structure in my life. But then I took Soulja Boy’s advice
Fuck the F.B.I. and fuck all the Army troops Fighting for what, bitch? Be your own man
I’m not sure if that’s bc I am a commie, I don’t hang out in kids spaces obviously, but for me it seems like a lot of the over the top chauvinism and troop worship is also just cringe
Edit: the us is also just losers, haven’t won a war since WW2 and now after 9/11 people actually get sent to combat so why risk getting your arms blown off for a Camaro
Yeah the "thank you for your service" shit is just cringe. Also i think young people are acutely aware that signing up just means dying for no particular reason. Joking about the US invading for oil is a staple for anyone under 30 and the only people i know that signed up are psychopaths who want to murder. Anyone who would have joined now just become cops.
psychopaths who want to murder. Anyone who would have joined now just become cops
well if you just want to murder being a cop is just the objectively better option, higher pay, less danger there is no upside to the army in comparison
streamlining the naturalization process so recruits can become citizens during basic military training
service guarantees citizenship!
the us is also just losers, haven’t won a war since WW2
You really want to piss them off point out the last major war they won Stalin won it for them
This obviously calls for a new ping pong table
Vietnam’s ping pong robot will rise to the challenge
Too bad it broke in transit
Have they tried turning the imperialist war into a civil war? 
Just switch out the copies of the Constitution they swore to defend with 1936 USSR ones
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Will America be forced to implement a self-destructive Foederati system? 
Will its new sexy slogan bring in new sexy recruits? 
Is everything just drones now? 
And, Is avocado toast off the menu? 
Find out next time on An Empire in Decay
the US liberally uses become-a-citizen through service schemes and any number of arming/supporting proxy armies would be analogus to roman federates. the PMCs would even be buccellarii or palatini
funnily enough the giant moneypit in the pentagon shoveling the US' budget to private arms dealers is the one thing the late roman state had a better grasp on, with nearly the entire supply-chain and production of military goods run directly
Will America be forced to implement a self-destructive Foederati system
it's called NATO
You guys think its because kids dont want to join, I say its because the imperial core doesnt waste resources on education, the kids can no longer meet the fitness standards and the empire is always growing so course they can't fill the same quotas.
I love me another misanthropist
Hexbear never seems to be able to reconcile how many people get turned away from failling the ASVAB, having a criminal record or having stuff like asthma
I see recruiters all the time hovering around the school like vultures. They offer to make waivers all the time for just about everything except (maybe) criminal records.
they can say anything they want, they're not the ones who get them through processing
my soul = $5
avocado toast = $14
where do I sign up?
Recruiters: Start offering head. It'll at least make it funnier.
They've already got Lujan implying it
it's probably the being shot at and veterans having terrible memories and warning people away
It’s incredible because most Americans are slaves to the military and literally eat their boots before saying a bad thing about a soldier. But that still won’t make them sign up for a shitty job then end up homeless.
A lot of those flag fuckers are too old to enlist
and it's unclear how or when that will change.
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Isn't there a basic contradiction when you have population stagnation, with a possible collapse, and an institution that throws bodies into the Fire? 
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Tie military service up with housing, you don't serve you go homeless. Poverty Draft 2.0 baybeee
How can those pre-boot camp programs be 'innovative' if they don't accomplish the goal they were set out to do?
up next: private military corporations like Metal Gear Solid
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How long until they start impressing poor kids into the army? I'm guessing they'll start with foster kids, then incarcerated ones, then random Black kids out past curfew.
the recruitment stations are already strategically placed in the manner you have described
Judges will just go back to offering a suspended sentence if they sign up. Of course that's just the military industrial complex cannibalizing the prison industrial complex. Do you want soldiers or slaves?