What strategies can countries worldwide do to increase conscription/reservists numbers back up?

What strategies can countries worldwide do to increase conscription/reservists numbers back up?

Seems like this is a global issue.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically impossible.
    Back in 2005, I wrote a paper about a 'chatbot apocalypse'. The idea being that lazy or funny people would leave influencing farms on and eventually those moronic bots would push people over the edge.
    Either I was right or you frickers are unironically less intelligent then beta chat software. Either way, at this point it's not able to be stopped.
    Drop everything and run to a non-English speaking nation and pray the frickups who did this don't get in power a second time. (you guys are fricked)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      hello GPT-2

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >teach two entire generations that the worst possible thing you can be is a nationalist
    >wonder why nobody wants to defend the nation
    Real fricking mystery here. Maybe calling them racist a few more times will fix it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      America is not a nation, and I highly doubt that's the issue in a 45% white country

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >america is not a nation
        >muh 45%
        You didn't even get your percentage right either. Try harder next time.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          what's the issue, it will be true soon enough, or is 45% already outdated?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The issue is your virginity, anon. Wizardry isn't real- your struggle is for nothing.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              ending with a period = bot

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Its not even close to being 45%. Its 57% if you count non Hispanic whites. Whites if you include Hispanics(hispanics are not a race, its a ethnic background like anglos) it can be close to around 80%

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You can walk on the streets of American cities and not see a single white lol, 80% hahaha
              Brown mestizos are white!!!!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                look, you racist, it does not matter as long as the elite is prosperous and powerful, ok?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >american cities
                Try walking in a suburbs. Either ways, Hispanics can either be asians or whites depending on their backgrounds. Some look more white while others look more asian or black. There's a reason to why there are hispanic whites, hispanic blacks, hispanic asians and so on. Its not a race of any form.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I walked in my city and there's a shitload of whites. Not sure why you said cities because its an epicenter of foreign workers, tourists and what not.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >deflecting to muh cities already

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I live near and work in Seattle (which is a liberal shithole) often. its still obvious that white people are the majority and im not talking about hispanic white either.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >american cities
              Try walking in a suburbs. Either ways, Hispanics can either be asians or whites depending on their backgrounds. Some look more white while others look more asian or black. There's a reason to why there are hispanic whites, hispanic blacks, hispanic asians and so on. Its not a race of any form.

              >Comparing Anglos to Hispanics
              Stop posting, Pablo.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They are comparable because they are ethnic backgrounds. Hispanics and anglos are not a race, much like how germanics are not a race. They are all just heritage.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nobody is comparing them aside from saying they are both different ethnic groups.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair, the Anglo and the Hispanic are both mutt groupings and have huge variation within them.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Much like nordics too. Anglos, nordics, hispanics are derived from different people from the same backgrounds. They are all mutts in some shape or form.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Unless your a fricking abo or from some ethnic chinese tribe living in an isolated mountain valley, you're a fricking mutt. So its a question relativity.

                the two are recommended together

                Yes, this is true. But diet is the most important, if you match your daily intake with your burn you will not get fat - you will not look so great, but you will look better than if you were fat.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yea, pretty much everyone are mutts and are categorized to different variations of a background.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          55% is including north Africans

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Among the young, whom the military is actually recruiting, it's true

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The military is still majority white based on statistics.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Turns out treating people like shit actually does result in bad word of mouth affecting recruitment after all.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't you have 1,4 million army. Why are 20000 so important?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they need like 100,000 new people every year to make up for the people who retire or quit.

      https://i.imgur.com/sEQRg8f.jpg

      What strategies can countries worldwide do to increase conscription/reservists numbers back up?

      Seems like this is a global issue.

      a lot of this is due to economic factors (you can make more money nowadays flipping burgers) and medical factors (zoomies are fat, smoke pot, and have actual medical records that they can use to disqualify applicants for eczema or adhd.) the medical thing is a problem because the economic thing means nobody is going to bother getting waivered unless they actually believe in america. that's where the anti-nationalism thing kicks in.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    be invaded

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think if the US government stopped demonizing White males they might have more recruits. Common reply from my White friends when discussing a potential draft is "there is no way in hell I am fighting for a government that hates me."

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think the military wants limp-wristed homosexuals such as yourselves who put up such ludicrous excuses

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What strategies can countries worldwide do to increase conscription/reservists numbers back up?
    increased pay. Don't treat them like shit. The internet really allowed for the stigma around the military to go through the roof well beyond the televised wars.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Make the military cool and not gay. There you go; I solved it. Pls gib money nao

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    put a charismatic president in charge, orchestrate some theater to the 'woke in retreat' effect, and they will get their golems rounding around the block, proud of how AMERICA IS BACK BABY

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >put someone sympathetic to war mongering in charge
      >write some propaganda to counteract all the victims of war
      >oh yea definitely want to join now. Totally wanna fight the VA to cover healthcare of strange and rare diseases that are unusually common in combat veterans.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > Tfw after a decade of service I still haven't met anyone with a VA horror story

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This. I live super comfy on VA disability and GI bill BAH. I'm seriously considering retiring to the phillippines after I graduate. Just bang flip girls all day and go fishing.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    go back /misc/Black person

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why do you /misc/ Black folk concern shill on here? Are you trying to slide or something?

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers, like me, don't want to go off to some foreign shit hole and die for no fricking reason. I'd rather sit on the southern border and pop invaders all day with SCAR 20.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This but the exact opposite. Recruiting is hurting because there is no cool exotic war to go off and fight. Young men don’t want to join the military just sit around in South Carolina fixing air conditioners.
      Just need a new war to bump recruitment, we didn’t have these problems during iraq.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >This but the exact opposite. Recruiting is hurting because there is no cool exotic war to go off and fight. Young men don’t want to join the military just sit around in South Carolina fixing air conditioners.

        I imagine Russian soldiers would much rather be fixing air conditioners than being turned into drone feed in the exotic faraway land known as Ukraine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Recruiting is hurting because there is no cool exotic war to go off and fight.
        uhh no lmao I'm not wanting to go to fricking war to die especially when I'm gonna get paid less than I do now at walmart.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >1. Increase compensation.
    When even a cagie wagie with nothing other than a GED can walk onto a shit job and make a minimum of $18 an hour, the military needs to be able to offer better.
    >2. Get rid of the tedious dog & pony bullshit that has no real world relevance to being a professional soldier.
    Gender sensitivity classes and close order drill are both a waste of time.
    >3. Contract out any roles that can be more efficiently filled by private industry
    It's a massive waste of money for the military to recruit and train people to be cooks, janitors, truck drivers, etc. Better to contract with companies that already provide these services. As a bonus, this will also save a huge amount of money in the long run, as the government will no longer need to pay out VA benefits to or entertain fraudulent disability claims from such people.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >entertain fraudulent disability claims from such people.
      The VA is known for its rampant fraud and medical malpractice. Hilarious all those burn pit people were just merely pretending to have cancer I guess.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Cancer is a big scam, all these people claim to have it but when you ask them for proof suddenly they're just "deceased" and don't even have the courtesy to respond to your letters asking for proof. SO much fraud.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >as the government will no longer need to pay out VA benefits to or entertain fraudulent disability claims from such people.

      Weird how you have all these people that did nothing but flip burgers or push paperwork are suddenly completely broken mentally and physically when it comes time to file a VA claim.

      No fraud there of course.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's a massive waste of money for the military to recruit and train people to be cooks, janitors, truck drivers, etc. Better to contract with companies that already provide these services
      Its not going to be cheaper though. MIL contractors know they can milk big bucks for these shits, especially in combat zones.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Start a global, unwinnable war that demands human bodies. Same shit they do every time enlistment bottoms out and people start thinking for themselves instead of running off to die in their wars.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In lieu of some cause to create blind patriotism service needs to be competitive with private employment, the labor market is increasingly competitive so no zoomer wants to waste years of their life doing grunt shit and falling behind their peers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The military does not in fact, need to compete with thee private sector in salaries.... it just needs other perks or benefits to compensate

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Drafting. also puts pressure on politicians to not throw away lifes in pointless wars

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      politicians are the only people's families who never fight. The whole "I ain't no senators son" is real.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not being buttholes about civilian ownership of guns.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they gonna need to get that lujan b***h on onlyfans if they want dumb horny zoomers joining up

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >inb4 it gets leaked

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There is ZERO chance that the modern US military puts fricking sex appeal adverts out there to boost recruiting. The freaks in charge would not, outside of a war with china, allow that.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ditch democracy for unapologetic imperialism

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You don't.
    You have to come up with new strategies and a foreign policy that takes into account a much smaller military.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Have a recession

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'll retort the same things that have been said in these threads over and over again for a summary for newbies:
    >The pin cushion mania
    >Ego-driven braindead Boomer 1SGTs and Lts
    >Treating soldiers like children, this 1970s Boomer mentality is outdated, and not allowing soldiers to sleep/live off-base, etc. etc.
    >Dogshit pay, even wagies at McDonald's make more and get free food
    >No appealing benefits, the bonuses are moronic, I legit heard a woman's mother the other day BRAG that her daughter got a $50k bonus spread out over 20 FRICKING YEARS, Mutts moronic
    >No viable career options post service other than security guard or police officer
    >No option to freely choose your MOS, once you get stuck you're fricking stuck

    I can go on and on but you get the general idea, treating soldiers as infants and terrible benefits are the general pain points I see on social media.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      and the number 1 reason: young rural white farm boys dont want to be forced to live and work amongst a hellish mix of black HR ladies, moronic hispanics and incompetent careerist leadership

      they would rather withdraw into things like videogames instead

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >black HR ladies

        The ACFT was moronic but I was still hoping it would have gotten rid of all these fricking females with attitude problems that would do their 13 push-ups, 45 sit-ups, and then walk the run because profile lol.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They changed it specifically for those prostitutes. Used to be easy as shit to get freebee points with leg tucks. You only had to do ONE. Any more and it was free points. But the skinny brown females couldnt do them at all, so now it’s a fricking dogshit plank.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nah its mostly the pay and absolute dogshit working conditions. You're basically an employee of the military with all of the dogshit military bureaucracy. No one is getting mad because you work with some HR luddite. People actively believe that the military is not a good thing to spend their lives on.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I actually did forget that yea, nobody from Midwest Nebraska is going to want to take orders from some fat HR black roastie or some moronic Mexican who is the son of an immigrant or some gang banger.

        The fabric morals of society are gone.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          and the number 1 reason: young rural white farm boys dont want to be forced to live and work amongst a hellish mix of black HR ladies, moronic hispanics and incompetent careerist leadership

          they would rather withdraw into things like videogames instead

          Cringe take.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Invest heavily in high school team sports, have different branches sponsor different towns within districts, invest heavily in NJROTC programs. Boy Scouts is more or less dead, rebrand it and bring it back. Scout Eurocountries for volunteers who would be interested in becoming US Citizens. Start doing kickass military parades. Get all the current music stars to do a few open to public USO tours. If you don't already, start accepting highschool dropouts, give them an extra month or two of educational training.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    getting real food again, for one

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Western Governments could try and actually govern instead of selling the country to thirdies and exploiting the populace to the point where it is impossible to buy a house and an economic crash every decade is normal. No one joins the military because there is nothing to fight for.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      oh man its almost like making sub minimum wage in the military is bad.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wanna know how bad the war in Ukraine is going for the Russians?
    >check the catalogue for this thread or a derivative thereof.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Its a /misc/Black person that consistently makes these threads. Its already posted on here on his history of making "recruitment crisis" threads.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I bet we could meet recruitment easily if we just brought back real physical fitness requirements in public schools.

    A full 60% of Americans are medically ineligible to join, mostly due to obesity and meme diseases like ADHD and depression. If we forced kids to run a couple miles, do some push ups, and stay a healthy weight, we could solve this shit easily.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Number has been improving since the crisis was first identified in 2009.

      Military is struggling to recruit because of a massive contraction in the labor market that started under Trump and continues today. Everyone, in every sector, is struggling to tap the labor pool.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If society actually valued that sure, but when you have Victoria's secret models being 400 lb roasties good luck with that. We had presidential fitness tests in middle school in the mid 2000s, before the woke shit got really bad, all the girls were super fit and had tight abs, nice legs, etc. Most of the guys were also super in shape. Nowadays I see kids in high school they weigh 200+ lb and fat as frick. Bring back the Hollister/American Eagle model mentality and you'd have kids actually bullying each other to be fit.

      >t. written by a schizoid.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, you're 100% correct. It would be an easy fix if the people running America were even remotely competent.

        If you started rolling out new, hard PT standards in public schools, you would be seeing dramatic improvements in the recruiting pool within two or three years max.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >you would be seeing dramatic improvements in the recruiting pool within two or three years max.
          This came to you in a dream?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >10th graders now have to run, do pull ups, and just generally do man shit
            >by the time they're 18 and ready to enlist, they are no longer fat
            >a much higher percentage of the people who want to enlist can now enlist
            >world peace ensues, schools shootings end because incels no longer exist

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >bunch of 10th graders forced to go through some relatively excruciating physical training instead of the more engaging things they do in PE.
              >their PE class is like 45 minutes at the very best
              >their dieting contributes far more to their physical health than anything else.
              >some kids may improve but at the end schools will just try to flub their metrics for government support like they do already for academics
              >those few kids who improved still have no reason or incentive to even think about joining the military.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yep. Turning around the crisis of fatties is something that can only be done by congress and it requires such a complete re-write of vast segments of the economy that it would easier to pass a constitutional amendment repealing the 14th Amendment.

                The entire food production system would have to be gutted AND you would have to pass all kinds of law limiting calories in fast food and drinks and shit AND you would have to pour billions into combatting "food deserts"
                >food deserts is one of the only things Obama was actually right about

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              diet > exercise.

              An hour of PE a week isnt going to offset their dogshit diets. You're just going to make big fatties into slightly smaller fatties who now hate exercise.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                this

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >eat more kcal of food
                >surprised when you get fat
                Huh?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                the caloric and nutritional content was matched. The point is that ultra processed foods are generally much more unhealthy due to how ubiquitos they are. You can make significantly healthier meals that are similar in nutritional content and be better off. Processed foods don't really satiate you and make you crave more.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                Yeah, those graphs arent quite as damning as you think.

                I was talking more generally about the constant intake of excess calories due to a sedentary lifestyle and the prevalence of high sugar foods.

                If you want to maintain a healthy physique as long as you balance intake with exertion it doesnt really matter what you eat, unless you're trying to get jacked in which case its all about them macros.

                [...]
                >Subjects were admitted to the NIH Clinical Center and randomized to receive either ultra-processed or unprocessed diets for 2 weeks immediately followed by the alternate diet for 2 weeks. Meals were designed to be matched for presented calories, energy density, macronutrients, sugar, sodium, and fiber. Subjects were instructed to consume as much or as little as desired. Energy intake was greater during the ultra-processed diet
                easier to overeat
                not even mentioning the insulin resistance you develop when you eat them for a long time

                The calorie contents weren't matched, it was ad libitum intake. People ate more of the processed foods.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                thats what i said

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Sorry, meant to reply to you separately. People need to not go back and eat seconds.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                lack of fiber or protein, which makes you feel full and higher sugar/salt whatever combo makes you eat more
                its engineered food to make you eat more and get fat and sick

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Just like soda.
                Mcdonalds leading the way for hypercorporate fast food have been a disaster for the american public

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                yep, 100%

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Just like soda.
                Mcdonalds leading the way for hypercorporate fast food have been a disaster for the american public

                Many countries have begun limiting the amount of sugar per serving in drinks. I think its time to consider it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                >Subjects were admitted to the NIH Clinical Center and randomized to receive either ultra-processed or unprocessed diets for 2 weeks immediately followed by the alternate diet for 2 weeks. Meals were designed to be matched for presented calories, energy density, macronutrients, sugar, sodium, and fiber. Subjects were instructed to consume as much or as little as desired. Energy intake was greater during the ultra-processed diet
                easier to overeat
                not even mentioning the insulin resistance you develop when you eat them for a long time

                For the sake of this discussion, pretend I am a small monkey and then explain again.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Set plates out
                >Plates have same calorie content of food
                >People eat more plates of the shitty processed food before they feel satisfied
                >Therefore, calorie intake when eating processed foods is higher, weight gain is increased.
                >higher sugar content of processed foods also leads to more chance of developing diabeetus etc, other health conditions.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >they put a bunch of people in rooms
                >one group gets processed food with a lot of calories, one group gets healthy food
                >people were allowed to eat as much or as little food as they wanted
                >the group with the processed food ate a lot more food, and thus a lot more calories
                >we can conclude that processed food is bad for you because it makes you consume more calories

                So its not really an indictment of processed food per se but rather an indictment of the ability (inability) of processed food to make you feel "full" and/or the likelihood of processed food making you overeat

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, but if the average person consumes more calories while eating processed food, the end result is the same.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yes. If you go a step further then processed food is far more prevalent in western society especially among the poor. The poor eats lots of this because its so stupidly cheap and readily available. Obesity as a whole is significantly higher in the poor than in more wealthy groups. Since there are so many relatively poor people in the US, recruitment would never take them due to obesity issues.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                not that exact study, but there are plenty of indictments
                excess sugar and high glycemic index foods lead to fatty liver and insulin resistance, meaning more calories are stored as fat

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >they put a bunch of people in rooms
                >one group gets processed food with a lot of calories, one group gets healthy food
                >people were allowed to eat as much or as little food as they wanted
                >the group with the processed food ate a lot more food, and thus a lot more calories
                >we can conclude that processed food is bad for you because it makes you consume more calories

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/WsEc9WQ.png

                this

                Yeah, those graphs arent quite as damning as you think.

                I was talking more generally about the constant intake of excess calories due to a sedentary lifestyle and the prevalence of high sugar foods.

                If you want to maintain a healthy physique as long as you balance intake with exertion it doesnt really matter what you eat, unless you're trying to get jacked in which case its all about them macros.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                Yeah, those graphs arent quite as damning as you think.

                I was talking more generally about the constant intake of excess calories due to a sedentary lifestyle and the prevalence of high sugar foods.

                If you want to maintain a healthy physique as long as you balance intake with exertion it doesnt really matter what you eat, unless you're trying to get jacked in which case its all about them macros.

                >Subjects were admitted to the NIH Clinical Center and randomized to receive either ultra-processed or unprocessed diets for 2 weeks immediately followed by the alternate diet for 2 weeks. Meals were designed to be matched for presented calories, energy density, macronutrients, sugar, sodium, and fiber. Subjects were instructed to consume as much or as little as desired. Energy intake was greater during the ultra-processed diet
                easier to overeat
                not even mentioning the insulin resistance you develop when you eat them for a long time

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                the two are recommended together

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                of course they are, but 45 minutes of exercise is dwarfed by how kid's dietary influences are.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It would be an easy fix if the people running America were even remotely competent.
          They're competent. What you're looking for is genuinely good-aligning. Many of the people running the country do so or seek to do so out of raw greed. They're in congress to make money, they network themselves to be powerful even after leaving office. They secure themselves and their friends. Very few of the leaders actively strive for better purpose beyond casually brown nosing voters for brownie points.

          >If you started rolling out new, hard PT standards in public schools, you would be seeing dramatic improvements in the recruiting pool within two or three years max.
          You really wouldn't. You would just see a lot of dogshit drama with parents, kids, and schools trying to make people conform. At the end you'd have a bunch of salty kids and a bankrupt school district.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    America won't even be needing humans in their military before long, they're so far ahead of other nations in technology that while everyone else is debating methods of increasing recruitment they'll be pumping out legions of warbots.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Having a country worth fighting for

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      People always asking what can I do for my country meanwhile my country would drop me like a rock anytime you'd actually wanna rely on it.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >this thread
    All meme answers. The actual answer is that there's better jobs and competitiveness among people to follow through their peers. The GWOT is mostly over and its a peaceful era that involves people looking into other opportunities. More job opportunities=less recruitments. Covid also fricked up recruitment and the military hasn't been aboe to advertise themselves in schools that much. The main issue is just people finding other things to do rather than being in the military. An easy fix would be another war, but thats going to take a while.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. Why the frick would I join the military when I can get a better paying job with more benefits and free-time outside of it? You get the military you pay for, and if you want good soldiers you have to offer them a lucrative job.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bingo.

        Have you ever read about all the benefits and cool shit the bongs offer their soldiers? Their army will unironically send you to Zambia to go white river rafting (or ski'ing in the alps, of scuba diving in the med) for three weeks (and pay you for it) or make sure you never get deployed for longer than six months and so on and so forth.
        >and they still struggle to meet quota

        Its simply a question of making it an attractive job because, reality is, 90% of military jobs are pog shit no different from working in a amazon fulfillment center or mechanics shop or driving an 18 wheeler.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yea Bongs got it right, they're always been good at infantry though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >An easy fix would be another war

      >start another ill-conceived war to boost enlistment
      >lose
      >confidence in the military plummets, as does enlistment

      The ability to actually win wars is the biggest single factor to military enlistment. People want to join the winning team and eschew the losing team. That's why the Ukrainian Army has an eight month waiting period just to enter basic training and America and Russia are both scraping the barrel for cannon fodder.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I guess I should've clarified a war that riles people up. The GWOT invited recruiting because of 9/11. Obviously that will not last forever and recruitment will go down. In America's case, you still have people willing to fight compared to most countries. Countries like japan or Germany have people not willing to fight for their country and not have that much people joining or view their militaries in a high regard. One study shows that less than 12% of the people that were polled are willing to die for their country while America has like 50-60%

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Japan has less than 12%*

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone who's talking about 'muh white men' is moronic. it's because now everyone can look online and see the latest frickup at fort polk or hear about how some dude got cancer from all the shit in the air while he was a gunner. or they enlist, reach specialist, but don't want to take a command role so they get pushed out and WHOOPS now you have to train a new guy on the system, nice going USA!

    still better then every other military though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      oh and the pay sucks compared to the private sector which gives you way more freedom to do whatever the frick you want compared to the military, while also being able to walk out of a shitty position or boss, and if you're in the military you just have to suck it up.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The pay is only decent if you're married.

        You can be a SGT and be making less than the fricking privates because you're single and didn't marry the first girl that let you touch her at prom.

        The barracks and DFAC are an insult compared to what you can get with BAH and BAS.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          A tale as old as time. My dad was a Cpt. in the Army and he said that it was a huuge problem in the 80's
          >jnco's marrying local strippers/hookers/whatever purely for economic benefits.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Just marry your bunkmate.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I ain't no gayosexual, you queeer.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You can be an asexual, aromantic married man who cheats on his husband with women and you both get paid twice as much.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >he has a problem with making money
              The only thing worse than being a gayosexual is being a communist.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Every military has historically relied upon material incentives to attract recruits. "Join us because patriotism" is a meme, if you want recruits you have to either pay them lots of money, or promise them plenty of opportunities to loot the frick out of the enemy they're going to conquer.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People join the military for one of three reasons:
    >Economic opportunities
    >Their nation is under direct threat
    >They were conscripted
    That's it. It doesn't matter if you have a 100% white national socialist state with everyone physically fit and inundated with patriotism from birth, recruitment rates will remain low if the military economic opportunities are shit and they're being sent to fight people who pose no direct threat to their nation.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Stop the insane level of government spending that only serves to drive inflation further to the sky, stop letting shitskins (street shitters via H1b and spics, mainly) and chinks invade the country thus compounding the inflationary issue with increased competition, stop giving trillions to Black folk for being Black folk, stop demonizing white people and giving preferential treatment to mentally ill homosexuals and women in every facet of public or private life.

    All of the moronic shit that has occurred in the past 15 years has only served to enrich third-world subhumans and now-decrepit boomers, resulting in the proverbial rug-pulling of the American dream from a significant portion of the average American population. Owning a home and supporting a family with one bread-winner is more of an impossibility today for most people than it has been in almost a century. No one wants to serve a country that has turned into a voracious shit-hole filled with swarthy monkeys.

    I don’t think it’s going to improve prior to the occurrence of some unprecedentedly extreme event, and I genuinely feel bad for people who aren’t already in positions to create a successful career and life for themselves.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >War is a Racket - by Smedley Butler
    Can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Zoomers grew up with the internet. They now know all wars are banker's wars.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can anyone explain something for me ?

    So if israelites and Israel want to collapse the US and rot its military and allow China to become the top dog… wouldn’t that make Israel weaker and surrounded by enemies ? I can’t imagine they are naive to think China will fall for their israeli tricks as well.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The American military will never collapse, within 30 years over 90% of the military will consist of autonomous death robots.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >within 30 years over 90% of the military will consist of autonomous death robots.
        >continues losing to Third World cavemen anyway

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Wasn't us that lost, that was the Afghanis.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Wasn't us that lost, that was the Afghanis.

            It was the Afghan-backed government that nearly 2,000 Americans and trillions of dollars had been sacrificed trying to prop up.

            While I'll concede that America was able to withdraw from Afghanistan largely on its terms, you're still missing the point that no amount of technology is going to be able to make up for bad strategy and planning, something that is crippling American society at nearly every level.

            The military did not lose.
            >nooo but von clausewitz

            >The military did not lose.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >It was the Afghan-backed government that nearly 2,000 Americans and trillions of dollars had been sacrificed trying to prop up.
              A failure of nation-building, absolutely. But not a failure of our military.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Afghanistan is completely fricked right nie because American embargoes and they're likely going to face a serious famine because eof it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >no amount of technology is going to be able to make up for bad strategy and planning

              Yeah, but if the discussion is how to make the military more capable, there's nothing in this discussion that will fix that problem. Bush and Obama had completely inadequate strategies, there wasn't that much the military could have done independently to rectify that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The military did not lose.
          >nooo but von clausewitz

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