The Biden era is doing a fine job of wrecking military preparedness at every level.
Army National Guard soldiers are reportedly leaving at a faster rate than they are enlisting.
According to officials, there is a total annual loss of about 7,500 service members.
Maj. Gen. Rich Baldwin, chief of staff of the Army National Guard, told The Associated Press that current staffing challenges are the worst he’s seen in the last 20 years.
Between vaccine mandates and the general infusion of wokeness, recruitment is turning bad across the board.
And it risks causing serious harm.
Staffing challenges are at a 20-year-low and if left unchecked might result in readiness issues within the next year or two, Army National Guard chief of staff Maj. Gen. Rich Baldwin told the AP.
By the numbers: In the last year, the National Guard has lost 7,500 service members.
The service branch numbers came in late last month and they were bad.
The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist.
According to officials, the Marine Corps, which usually goes into each fiscal year with as much as 50% of its recruiting goal already locked in, has only a bit more than 30%. And the Air Force and the Navy will only have about 10% of their goals as they start the new fiscal year. The Air Force usually has about 25%. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details on the recruiting totals that have not yet been released.
The leadership could rethink vaccine mandates and wokeness, instead it’s doubling down on bonuses and considering referrals.
They’ve done it before. It was controversial, and people went to prison, but it worked. And now it might return.
The National Guard Bureau’s top general, Gen. Dan Hokanson, told reporters Sept. 20 that “we could really help make every single Guardsman a recruiter by paying them a bonus for anybody that they bring into the organization that’s able to complete their military training.”
Army Times contacted NGB officials and requested an interview with Hokanson or another official to discuss the details of their proposal, but a spokesperson declined the request, citing schedule conflicts
The wartime program that Hokanson alluded to, the Guard-Recruiting Assistance Program, ran from 2005 to 2012 and offered enlistment referral bonuses of $2,000 to off-duty Guard troops working as civilian independent contractors for a private company, Docupak.
Around 130,000 soldiers joined during that period via G-RAP referrals, and the Guard quickly exceeded its end strength goals.
But the Army’s audit agency said in 2012 that the program could have experienced $92 million in fraud, garnering attention from lawmakers and sparking a massive Army Criminal Investigation Division investigation named Task Force Raptor. The bonuses were abruptly halted.
$92 million in fraud? In the era of PPP, green energy subsidies, and assorted government ‘checks to your home’ programs, that’s nothing. Wokeness is leading us to broke-ness, but the leadership won’t stop.
Power never takes a back step
“the Army’s audit agency said in 2012 that the program could have experienced $92 million in fraud”
Question: This fraud was “eventually” exposed, but was anyone caught and prosecuted for this crime and any funds recovered? I’m thinking probably not.
Oh sure, occasionally some are caught and prosecuted but I suspect that is an integral part of the plan, let a few get caught taking millions out the front door while billions are making their way out the back door. Who are the culprits? Why can’t we catch them?
There is a day of accounting coming, not one penny will go unaccounted for. Consequence will follow, no one will be left out.
USofA.
United as suckers by high-jacked elections.
And we sit still for it.
I am a vet, same as my father and grandfather, may of those i was stationed with could have said the same. Point is most of the military comes from a family with a military background. There is no way in the world that today with the unproven covid vaccine, all the woke crap, etc. would i ever encourage my child to join the Army.
And that is one of the problems that the military is facing right now, loosing the support of those families who consist of veterans. And that is where they get the vast majority of recruits.
Thank you for your Service.
My father was at Okinawa. My grandfather was a daddy in June 1917, and exempt. His father, my great grandfather marched off to Northern Virginia in 1862 a slick sleeve private. He didn’t do it for the money.
I celebrated three birthdays in service, two on the other side of the pacific..
I shook Richard Nixon’s hand at a Republican campaign event in Ridgewood New Jersey in 1960, and voted absentee for him in 1968. In 1964, I was a Goldwater guy.
I am a “stakeholder” I think, and I am magnificently pissed.
I want the Republic’s political enemies prosecuted. Everyone, including specifically Majorka, implicated in the violation of our immigration statutes, DHS employees, NGOs with religious names and tax exemptions, individual coyotes, all of them to spend a decade and a fraction incarcerated.
We are a nation of citizens and laws. We better be, or we won’t exist at all.
You see it as a problem. They see it as clearing out the dead wood.
I read that they are “accidentally” giving the vax when they go in to get their flu shots. And who knows what is in the flu shots these days, now that they changed the definitions.
Yea, apparently they’re modernizing the old flu shots that didn’t work for beans with the latest garbage that only works for genes. I can’t believe this crap but that’s what it is with this Trumpoid opposition.
Thanks Una, I thought it was something like that. I’m too old to really understand the new “vaccines” but not too old to understand that there is a lot of risk.
No brain no pain
As Gutfeld recently mentions the only person more pro-vax than Trump is Howard Stern who has been living in self imposed isolation for over 2 years because he hasn’t had enough debauchery in his already long life. Whether Stern is actually that debauched or just made millions being a proponent of it is one of those X-files mysteries that can remain unsolved for all I care.
Anyways, you still gots your freedoms as misdirected as they might be. Just not in the National Guard suckers.
You can take that elsewhere