U.S. Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits

https://apnews.com/article/covid-politics-health-army-dc5db721e3270e0e92a0210daa890860

by MuchoMaas • 4 years ago

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sn0w_crash• 4 years ago

Perhaps not the best time to be discharging unvaccinated troops?

MuchoMaas2• 4 years ago

On the upside, the force they're left with is much more heavily skewed to order followers and regime loyalists.

LinuxBender• 4 years ago

I get what you are saying but even in the military this is not always a good thing. I had to fight/escalate many times when people gave very poorly thought through orders. They don't like my kind, but if none of us are left to rock the boat I could foresee monumentally dumb things occurring that could harm many military and civilian alike and waste vast amounts of taxpayer money.

codefreeordie2• 4 years ago

Yes, it's just that optimizing the force for a domestic purpose does somewhat reduce the recruiting pool.

codefreeordie2• 4 years ago

That depends entirely upon one's goals.

It was, for example, a relatively effective means of applying a partisan ideological screen to the force without having to admit to having applied a partisan ideological screen.

The screen will be very incomplete, but adequate for materially changing the partisan makeup of the overall force.

tomatotomato37• 4 years ago

Given the recent European land war and the general performance of one of our main military rivals in said war I think it's possible this was actually planned for awhile and the recruit problem is just a convenient excuse

U.S. Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits

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