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The military is in the midst of a self-inflicted recruitment crisis.
As I wrote earlier, new data showed that the Army’s recruitment crisis was almost entirely caused by a drop in white recruits and a woke brass chasing DEI and diversity at the expense of national security. There are good odds that the Navy has the same issues and that its recruiting crisis could be fixed if the service, which is even more woke than the Army, stopped playing political games.
Despite a year of pilot programs aimed at getting new sailors, the Navy missed all its recruiting goals in Fiscal Year 2023, resulting in higher goals for next year, the sea service announced Tuesday.
The Navy missed its enlisted sailor goal by 7,464, according to the sea service’s numbers published Tuesday. It aimed to recruit 37,700 sailors, but ended the FY 2023 with 30,236. The service met its active-duty enlistment goal in Fiscal Year 2022 by a thin margin, USNI News previously reported.
So the Navy is dealing with that by dropping standards even further. And I don’t just mean with its ‘drag queen ambassador’ but by tossing out a GED or high school diploma requirement.
The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards.
Under the new plan, Navy recruits without an education credential will be able to join as long as they score 50 or above on the qualification test, which is out of 99. The last time the service took individuals without education credentials was in 2000.
Lowering standards had been recommended to the military brass in order to improve diversity metrics. As was ignoring criminal records and other issues. Expect those to show up on the agenda soon enough.
The Navy could drop DEI or drop its standards. It’s choosing to drop standards.
I’ve known about dropping HS or GED equivalency, but the last I’d heard, the ASVAB test score requirements had stayed the same. Undoubtedly, my recruiter buddy didn’t want to divulge the damage DEI has brought to the equation and I don’t blame him. Given the wokeism that’s rampant in public schools now, where science and mathematics take a back seat to humanism, feelings and racial theories, I’m fairly certain that testing standards would have to be dropped even without a drop in recruitment. I mean…have you talked to a high school grad recently?
While all of this is sad to me, I recently looked at a high school final exam from the mid 1800’s and I dare say that the average college grad would struggle to pass it now. The dumbing down of America by the NEA maintains it’s course and speed. All ahead full.
I saw a “man in the street” type interview conducted on a college campus last week. The interviewer asked students what “from the river to the sea” meant as related to the Israel Gaza conflict.
Some said the Nile to the Red Sea, some said the Atlantic, one said she couldn’t remember the river but it was the Black Sea. They only aired 7 or 8 but none knew what river or what sea.
So you’re correct NAVY. All those college students were HS Grads. I think our country has been and is being sabotaged. Our enemies are laughing and the credit goes to Obama/Biden.
I’m laughing at this article. Can’t wait till they drop it to only requiring an eighth grade education. Then all the illegal aliens can enlist. All those illegal aliens will have the ability to launch a nuclear-tip missile abroad a U.S. naval ship. Outstanding . Why, one or more could become an Admiral with an eighth grade education. This could happen during Biden second term as President.
Even worse is when the generals are Dummies.
Ive got no issue with enlisting high school drop outs. That is what Basic Training is for (get rid of the really dangerously stupid, problematic recruits)
Young people make stupid mistakes, like quitting school, the military can be a tool to get them away from a bad environment and on a good path. Ive seen this work, it is a fair trade for the military and the recruit.
That may be so, especially considering the mis-education kids are getting in high school these days, but the more serious issue is the whole idea of lowering standards (even if some of those standards are unneeded) rather than addressing the real problem the Armed Forces is facing with recruiting: they have driven away the pool they need most – young white males – with DEI. It’s hard to convince white males they should enlist when you’re going to openly discriminate against them in future opportunities (e.g. promotion) and meanwhile subject them to the Marxist indoctrination of DEI.