Retired officers target social ills disqualifying youth from military service – IOTW Report

Retired officers target social ills disqualifying youth from military service

Due to obesity, drug abuse and other issues, a significant portion of young Americans are not qualified to serve in the military.

19 Comments on Retired officers target social ills disqualifying youth from military service

  1. I’m sure most if not all of them are glad they wouldn’t quality as they are probably scared of the idea.
    I’m scared of the idea of not being able to tie my shoes without groaning and gasping, or not being able to run a mile in an emergency, or not being able to do some hard work. But these young people are in for some physically hard times and early life suffering, medical problems etc. I would have to force my kids to stay outside and play and limit their time on video games.
    Glad to say they are all in good shape and health conscious now.

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  2. What these dope addled, obese, mentally deficient young’uns don’t know is this: If our masters decide to throw a big war most of those dope addled, obese, mentally deficient young’uns will be scraped up and sent to do bullet catching duty without regard to their health status.

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  3. Not only the military but police departments as well. Certain criminal offenses used to be disqualifying, not any more.

    Affirmative action and quotas has also lowered the bar to drastic levels. When hiring involves a certain level of minorities and a certain level of women, it is incumbent that those same levels also graduate.

    The stories I could tell about unfit (can’t drive, can’t shoot a gun, can’t push their fat butts off the ground) that miraculously graduated from the academy and subsequently put out on the streets, scary stuff.

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  4. My sister had her son diagnosed as Attention Deficit Disorder. It’s in his school and health records. He never used any associated dispensations, and she took most of the Ritalin. Now, he’s been trying to join the Army for almost a year, and the ADD/ADH has turned out to be a huge stumbling block. Because the military has had big wash-out numbers with the kids whose discipline issues were deemed a handicap, they are reluctant to even look at them.

    So while she thought she was gaming the system by giving him a “disability” boost, she actually harmed his future prospects greatly. Karen strikes again.

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  5. I think robotics and AI have become sufficiently advanced enough now that they can be given the mission of protecting our nation and make people mostly unnecessary and obsolete.

    That solves the problem.

  6. Whatever they do don’t bring back the Draft. At the end of the Vietnam War the military had way too many misfits and absolutely worthless dummies who should’ve never been drafted in the first place except for the manpower shortage needed to fill quotas for cannon fodder. I hated the draft which is why I enlisted in the Navy when I did in 1972 because I didn’t want to be a ground pounding grunt fighting in an extremely unpopular war that we should’ve won.

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  7. @Anon

    Defeating military robots via cyber attacks might be easier than killing a soldier.

    If such robots are autonomous, it may work. If they have some or most of their actions initiated from a server or controller somewhere, that becomes a single point of failure. Sure, they would likely have backups, but then all backup controllers could conceivably be compromised.

    The worst scenario would be the enemy gaining control and make the robots turn around 360 degrees and attack us. Sounds like sci-fi, but then again, we’re talking about robots.

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  8. the mostly grobiden votuhs have 2 unzip for counting to 11, de-bra for 12. competent in working negro-phones & diversity “knowledge”, but can’t tell north from south or make change for a nickel.

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