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post 1618775901 10-08-2020, 08:31 AM
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The absolute state of the US Army in 2020

"#Diversity is the different attributes, experiences and backgrounds of people that further enhance our global capabilities and contribute to an adaptive, culturally astute Army."




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The amount of time we waste in the Army on EO and diversity type training is nuts. 23 years in and i'm 119 days from retirement, can not wait to get the hell out of this organization.
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Look man, very few peoplereallywant to join the army. And to the few people that do, power to you.

We all know the army does everything they can to enlist new recruits and anybody who has been down on their luck and talked to a recruit knows exactly how persistent the army can be.

The army's target demographic is the young person at a cross roads in life, and so they often need to do things that align with the interests of the current youth.

So it makes perfect sense that they are trying to pull from the widest selection of candidates, because they are ALWAYS recruiting. No matter what. And given that less, and less people DESIRE to enlist, it certainly makes even more sense that they're going to encourage themselves to "diversify their portfolio" so to speak.
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Ive said it many times here but I'll say it again, the reason leftist do not attack the military anymore is because they have embraced cultural marxism.

If you look at the targets this year, municipal police departments and NASCAR, youre looking at the few remaining organizations or institutions in america that havent begged the knee. Now that they got NASCAR doing gay little parades at their whim for "hate crimes" that never even happened, they know they have complete control. If you dont bend the knee, they will endlessly attack until you give in.

The flag officers at the top care a hell of a lot more about getting a cushy VP job at some defense contractor after they retire that pays 500k a year than they do about maintaining american culture and tradition in the armed forces so they bent the knee like 10+ years ago.
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It's all word salad with no real evidence showing that "diversity is our greatest strength".
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The army has been woke since the Obama admin. Nothing new.
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Originally Posted By TypeNirvash⏩
Look man, very few peoplereallywant to join the army. And to the few people that do, power to you.

We all know the army does everything they can to enlist new recruits and anybody who has been down on their luck and talked to a recruit knows exactly how persistent the army can be.

The army's target demographic is the young person at a cross roads in life, and so they often need to do things that align with the interests of the current youth.

So it makes perfect sense that they are trying to pull from the widest selection of candidates, because they are ALWAYS recruiting. No matter what. And given that less, and less people DESIRE to enlist, it certainly makes even more sense that they're going to encourage themselves to "diversify their portfolio" so to speak.
I get what youre saying but you could look at their numbers 20 years ago and Im sure they had plenty of "diversity" back then in their recruitment even without mandated annual dont rape people training and workplace celebrations of every LBGTQ, female, hispanic, black, asian ect month. Every month is some official endorsement of non straight white male celebration, IDK how they even managed to fill all 12 months but it seems like they have.

It goes past just recruitment efforts at this point into cultural marxist indoctrination.
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Originally Posted By slat11⏩
The amount of time we waste in the Army on EO and diversity type training is nuts. 23 years in and i'm 119 days from retirement, can not wait to get the hell out of this organization.
I feel ya brah. That way in academia and most every other organization out there. "We want you to feel uncomfortable about this discussion"...no, you want us to quit/retire because most people I know now want to GTFO.
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post 1618777731 10-08-2020, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted By ExPatriot⏩
TYFYS

Going to be cashing those joocy retirement checks and availing yourself of that Tricare for Life...

Good luck in your next career!
Yup. I just retired last week.


So glad I don't have to deal with this new generation stuff anymore.
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post 1618778821 10-08-2020, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted By slat11⏩
The amount of time we waste in the Army on EO and diversity type training is nuts. 23 years in and i'm 119 days from retirement, can not wait to get the hell out of this organization.
Don't forget you have transgender sensitivity training today at 1300.
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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
I get what youre saying but you could look at their numbers 20 years ago and Im sure they had plenty of "diversity" back then in their recruitment even without mandated annual dont rape people training and workplace celebrations of every LBGTQ, female, hispanic, black, asian ect month. Every month is some official endorsement of non straight white male celebration, IDK how they even managed to fill all 12 months but it seems like they have.

It goes past just recruitment efforts at this point into cultural marxist indoctrination.
There will always be a need for the red shirts unfortunately, and that's part of the reason why the army recruits so hard.

IMO, letting women into the army is theoretically a good thing. Peterson has often made allusions to Scandinavian countries that are "more equal" and how that almost always seems to encourage more women into femininity and men into masculinity.

Problem is I think we are forcing the square peg into the round hole in our attempts to do it and we should look more toward those Scandinavian models.
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Originally Posted By slat11⏩
The amount of time we waste in the Army on EO and diversity type training is nuts. 23 years in and i'm 119 days from retirement, can not wait to get the hell out of this organization.
Do not re-enlist.

Do not do it.

Don't let them get you.
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Originally Posted By TypeNirvash⏩
There will always be a need for the red shirts unfortunately, and that's part of the reason why the army recruits so hard.

IMO, letting women into the army is theoretically a good thing. Peterson has often made allusions to Scandinavian countries that are "more equal" and how that almost always seems to encourage more women into femininity and men into masculinity.

Problem is I think we are forcing the square peg into the round hole in our attempts to do it and we should look more toward those Scandinavian models.
You aren't wrong but the issue is that 95% of women don't sign up for red shirt roles and the out of the 5% that do only .1% of them can pass the physical tests unless you lower the standards
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All this Diversity stuff is just a way to make it easier to recruit kids from chitty areas. Same thing why NFL players are getting involved with the BLM. It's because recruitment is on the decline and they need to make sure there's another group of kids coming up to take over in 10 years.
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Originally Posted By TXBuddy⏩
Yup. I just retired last week. So glad I don't have to deal with this new generation stuff anymore.
Excellent...enjoy your new life as a civvie.

I'm so glad my USMC years were done long ago. (1965-69)

The USMC is suffering the same PC bvll shvt on steroids....I'm totally disgusted by it all.
I could provide the latest crap that the USMC military leaders are succumbing to but it would embarrass me to post it and it only makes my blood boil.

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Originally Posted By TBO1313⏩
You aren't wrong but the issue is that 95% of women don't sign up for red shirt roles and the out of the 5% that do only .1% of them can pass the physical tests unless you lower the standards
This is always how it's been. Men have always filled the physical roles and the dangerous ones.
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The Army has also moved away from having the "Shark Attack" on the first day of actual Basic Training. Its a shame as it is a good character building event for younger people that need that kick in the butt to come to grips with what they signed up for. I say this as a guy that has been through Basic twice (1987 Benning and 1999 Jackson).
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Marxists want the army diverse so once balkinization is complete, there will be little pushback from soldiers to cull whole populations.
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Funny because the military by nature is anti diversity.

Its all about unity and uniformity.
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Originally Posted By Mercworx⏩
Funny because the military by nature is anti diversity.

Its all about unity and uniformity.
And that's where the fabric of a "uniformed" organization is unraveling. We are starting to focus on the individuals (and our differences) instead of the collective.
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Originally Posted By ExPatriot⏩
Nice!

What's next for you?

I sometimes thought about staying in longer but getting out earlier worked out for me...
I started a job with a DoD contractor. Can work from home with some travel. Double dipped paychecks for the month.
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Originally Posted By TXBuddy⏩
I started a job with a DoD contractor. Can work from home with some travel. Double dipped paychecks for the month.
Good for you. On spread from 2 mins ago.
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Good for you. On spread from 2 mins ago.
Yeah. A good transition, but not sure about the work from home thing yet lol. Travelling to Sweden tomorrow.
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Originally Posted By slat11⏩
The amount of time we waste in the Army on EO and diversity type training is nuts. 23 years in and i'm 119 days from retirement, can not wait to get the hell out of this organization.
Originally Posted By TXBuddy⏩
Yup. I just retired last week.


So glad I don't have to deal with this new generation stuff anymore.
Originally Posted By Wayne
Excellent...enjoy your new life as a civvie.

I'm so glad my USMC years were done long ago. (1965-69)

The USMC is suffering the same PC bvll shvt on steroids....I'm totally disgusted by it all.
I could provide the latest crap that the USMC military leaders are succumbing to but it would embarrass me to post it and it only makes my blood boil.

Carry on....
Thank you for your service, gents! Really appreciate it.


Also, "diversity is our strength" is the dumbest sht I've ever heard
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Originally Posted By DesiredUser****⏩
Thank you for your service, gents! Really appreciate it. Also, "diversity is our strength" is the dumbest sht I've ever heard
Thanks for the kind comment.

Oh....I'm sure they'll come up with even more 'dumb shvt' in this context before I croak.


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Chinese military commercial feels more alpha

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there are no minorities and not enough females

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Originally Posted By slat11⏩
The amount of time we waste in the Army on EO and diversity type training is nuts. 23 years in and i'm 119 days from retirement, can not wait to get the hell out of this organization.
Obama absolutely fuked our military with the "diversity" push soooo damn hard.
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Surprised how many miscers seem to have been in the army
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