Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits

[AlexBailey]

Conservatives discourage young people from joining the armed forces to defend America because they think it’s too ‘gay’.

They’d rather let democracy die so someone like Putin can come in and MAGA!

 

[Rightguide]

l.

WOW.
I know how wedded you are to the whole "Democrats are the real racists" thing, but even for you, this is pushing it.
The date was July 26, 1948, Reichguide. Not "in the early 50s", and we all know why you made that mistake: it enables you to give credit to a Republican.

Clueless dipshit, it was Harry Truman and it took a couple of years to get the program going. He served until 1953. In case you're wondering was the early 50s.

 

[HisArpy]

Conservatives discourage young people from joining the armed forces to defend America because they think it’s too ‘gay’.

They’d rather let democracy die so someone like Putin can come in and MAGA!

Ummm, if you say so. On the other hand, just like where nearly everything else you "say" is BS, you're wrong this time too.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits​

Military.com | By Steve Beynon
Published January 10, 2024 at 4:25pm ET

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html

Gee, now why do you suppose that is?

How many of your white grandbabies have enlisted, Jack?

 

[YDB95]

Clueless dipshit, it was Harry Truman and it took a couple of years to get the program going. He served until 1953. In case you're wondering was the early 50s.

Lest we forget (as I'm sure you're hoping we have), here is what you actually said:

This is why the military was successfully desegregated in the early 50s and racial harmony in our military was a model for the world

If what you really meant was what you said above, then that's what you should have said. But you didn't, you said "the military was successfully desegregated in the early 50s", and anyone who has seen your horseshit as many times as I have knew exactly what you were implying.

 

[AlexBailey]

Ummm, if you say so. On the other hand, just like where nearly everything else you "say" is BS, you're wrong this time too.

Once again @HisArpy failed to do his homework and came in as a blazing asshole.

Did you even read the article?

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html

Partisan Attacks​

Another Army official pointed to partisan attacks from conservative lawmakers and media, which has an overwhelmingly white audience. Those groups have used the military as a partisan cudgel against the Biden administration, lambasting the services for being "woke," or so preoccupied with liberal values that they have abandoned their warfighting priorities. In most cases, those attacks have zeroed in on the services being more inclusive for women, service members from racial minority groups and LGBTQ+ troops.

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@HisArpy in the words of the person you most admire :

GO FUCK YOURSELF

 

[DeluxAuto]

Once again @HisArpy failed to do his homework and came in as a blazing asshole.

He's far too condescending for being so dumb.

 

[HisArpy]

Once again @HisArpy failed to do his homework and came in as a blazing asshole.

Did you even read the article?

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html

Partisan Attacks​

Another Army official pointed to partisan attacks from conservative lawmakers and media, which has an overwhelmingly white audience. Those groups have used the military as a partisan cudgel against the Biden administration, lambasting the services for being "woke," or so preoccupied with liberal values that they have abandoned their warfighting priorities. In most cases, those attacks have zeroed in on the services being more inclusive for women, service members from racial minority groups and LGBTQ+ troops.

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@HisArpy in the words of the person you most admire :

Oh lookie, more of your bullshit.

"Another Army official." Is that a pseudonym for "anonymous source"?

Here's some FACTS for you. America's heartland provides volunteers for military service at a rate which outstrips the recruitment from more urban areas. Farmboys and the sons of ranchers serve our country in greater numbers than you fucking chicken shit "moving to Canada" progressives ever have or ever will. They do it with pride and honor. And they put their lives on the line while you complain that they're the reason you don't have enough cream in your latte.

And now you have the gall of a ball-less bastard to insult them for their sacrifices because their skin color doesn't match your fucked up and mentally insane anti-life ideology.

You are the worst of the worst. You're a fucking coward with a big mouth and a case of envy so large it has it's own orbit around the sun. You are someone who spews hatred against those whom you aren't fit to lick the soles of their boots merely because you cannot accept that you are and always will be a shitstain with nothing to offer anyone or anything in the entire universe.

 

[Rightguide]

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DEI Destroys Excellence, Military Cohesion at Service Academies​

By Bruce Fleming
January 18, 2024
AP
This is an excerpt from Bruce Fleming's new book, Saving Our Service Academies (Post Hill Press).

Applicants who self-identified as a member of a race the Academy wished to privilege—at the time I was on the Admissions Board it was African American, Hispanic, and Native American—were briefed separately to the committee not by a white member but by a minority Navy lieutenant. Briefings (a minute and forty seconds per applicant, no more) ran through a number of factors quite quickly and offered a recommendation that we had been told was appropriate: “qualified” for USNA if grades A/B for white applicants (but not minorities, who needed only C grades), 600 score in each part of the SAT for white applicants (but about 550 for minorities who come to USNA without remediation), and Whole Person Multiple (points given for grades/tests, school leadership positions, and sports) of at least 55,000 for whites, no bottom for minorities.

This is aside from the fact that 20 percent of the class could be sent to the remedial, taxpayer-supported prep school for a year, also with no minimum for scores. Other possible recommendations included a year at a civilian prep school that the Naval Academy Foundation pays for, where they also do a thirteenth year (the profile for this was white lacrosse players, not black football players), and USNA “pool,” a sort of wait list for nonrecruited whites, who typically weren’t tracked to NAPS or Foundation schools. The athletic department offered its list of recruits that were invariably deemed “qualified” no matter how low in scores, because many if not most to go to NAPS and only a few to USNA directly.

Race in America is a complex question that we have no silver bullet for. We’d like to see everybody playing happily in the academic sandbox together, as well as elsewhere in society at large. However, in academic institutions with limited places, we have a problem—especially at an institution touted for academic rigor and that taxpayers fund for one specific job. Blacks, on average, consistently score lower than whites (who score lower than Asians) on standardized tests. The choices are simple. If you want students who look a certain way but tend to score lower than others, you accept the lower scores and stop talking about your standards. Or you go with the class that can meet these standards and stop talking about the way they look. The Naval Academy tries to square the circle by both bragging about its standards and letting in half the class to lower standards. No wonder they were furious that I pointed this out. All educational institutions have this problem to some degree; the academies are just worse than others. And in 2023, the Supreme Court said we’re legal in doing so, whereas all others are not.

I’ve had some brilliant black students over three decades, and quite a few really nice ones. I’ve taught classes at both ends of our ability spectrum—our honors classes and our remedial precollege English classes, which are almost all filled with black and Hispanic students, most of whom have just come from the remedial, taxpayer-funded thirteenth grade at the prep school. I usually love them as people, and the warmth I show them usually melts the ice when they heard they got Professor Fleming, the one who “hates the football team.” I don’t hate the football team. I just don’t think we should be recruiting them to play Division I, which takes up slots better all-around qualified candidates (like your kids?) could have filled. But they got the offer, and here they are, so I’m going to give it my all, and hope to inspire them to do the same.

More here on Biden's efforts to destroy the American military:

https://www.realcleardefense.com/ar...ry_cohesion_at_service_academies_1005678.html

Pray that Trump is elected and stops this suicidal military policy.

 

[AlexBailey]

Oh lookie, more of your bullshit.

"Another Army official." Is that a pseudonym for "anonymous source"?

Here's some FACTS for you. America's heartland provides volunteers for military service at a rate which outstrips the recruitment from more urban areas. Farmboys and the sons of ranchers serve our country in greater numbers than you fucking chicken shit "moving to Canada" progressives ever have or ever will. They do it with pride and honor. And they put their lives on the line while you complain that they're the reason you don't have enough cream in your latte.

And now you have the gall of a ball-less bastard to insult them for their sacrifices because their skin color doesn't match your fucked up and mentally insane anti-life ideology.

You are the worst of the worst. You're a fucking coward with a big mouth and a case of envy so large it has it's own orbit around the sun. You are someone who spews hatred against those whom you aren't fit to lick the soles of their boots merely because you cannot accept that you are and always will be a shitstain with nothing to offer anyone or anything in the entire universe.

Your dumbfuckery is your greatest strength. I’ve listened to some of the right wing pundits say exactly what I posted here, the fact that you can’t read what’s in front of you is funny.

I’m struggling to keep up with the demands for my services right now, so the closest thing I may have for jealousy of you is that it could be nice to be able to sit on my ass and get “portly” instead of helping out all the people you think I should be silent about so I don’t overshadow your selfishness with my “virtue signaling.”

What do you ‘produce’ that contributes to other people’s lives? You probably consider your enormous tax burden to be your biggest contribution while bitching about it to no end.

The world would be a better place with one less attorney while I’m an employer and a contractor in high demand.


Again, in the words of your own personal sage:

GO FUCK YOURSELF

 

[ll74]

​

DEI Destroys Excellence, Military Cohesion at Service Academies​

By Bruce Fleming
January 18, 2024
AP
This is an excerpt from Bruce Fleming's new book, Saving Our Service Academies (Post Hill Press).

Applicants who self-identified as a member of a race the Academy wished to privilege—at the time I was on the Admissions Board it was African American, Hispanic, and Native American—were briefed separately to the committee not by a white member but by a minority Navy lieutenant. Briefings (a minute and forty seconds per applicant, no more) ran through a number of factors quite quickly and offered a recommendation that we had been told was appropriate: “qualified” for USNA if grades A/B for white applicants (but not minorities, who needed only C grades), 600 score in each part of the SAT for white applicants (but about 550 for minorities who come to USNA without remediation), and Whole Person Multiple (points given for grades/tests, school leadership positions, and sports) of at least 55,000 for whites, no bottom for minorities.

This is aside from the fact that 20 percent of the class could be sent to the remedial, taxpayer-supported prep school for a year, also with no minimum for scores. Other possible recommendations included a year at a civilian prep school that the Naval Academy Foundation pays for, where they also do a thirteenth year (the profile for this was white lacrosse players, not black football players), and USNA “pool,” a sort of wait list for nonrecruited whites, who typically weren’t tracked to NAPS or Foundation schools. The athletic department offered its list of recruits that were invariably deemed “qualified” no matter how low in scores, because many if not most to go to NAPS and only a few to USNA directly.

Race in America is a complex question that we have no silver bullet for. We’d like to see everybody playing happily in the academic sandbox together, as well as elsewhere in society at large. However, in academic institutions with limited places, we have a problem—especially at an institution touted for academic rigor and that taxpayers fund for one specific job. Blacks, on average, consistently score lower than whites (who score lower than Asians) on standardized tests. The choices are simple. If you want students who look a certain way but tend to score lower than others, you accept the lower scores and stop talking about your standards. Or you go with the class that can meet these standards and stop talking about the way they look. The Naval Academy tries to square the circle by both bragging about its standards and letting in half the class to lower standards. No wonder they were furious that I pointed this out. All educational institutions have this problem to some degree; the academies are just worse than others. And in 2023, the Supreme Court said we’re legal in doing so, whereas all others are not.

I’ve had some brilliant black students over three decades, and quite a few really nice ones. I’ve taught classes at both ends of our ability spectrum—our honors classes and our remedial precollege English classes, which are almost all filled with black and Hispanic students, most of whom have just come from the remedial, taxpayer-funded thirteenth grade at the prep school. I usually love them as people, and the warmth I show them usually melts the ice when they heard they got Professor Fleming, the one who “hates the football team.” I don’t hate the football team. I just don’t think we should be recruiting them to play Division I, which takes up slots better all-around qualified candidates (like your kids?) could have filled. But they got the offer, and here they are, so I’m going to give it my all, and hope to inspire them to do the same.

More here on Biden's efforts to destroy the American military:

https://www.realcleardefense.com/ar...ry_cohesion_at_service_academies_1005678.html

Pray that Trump is elected and stops this suicidal military policy.

You really need to quote better (hint: there's an actual quote feature) and no more than three paragraphs.

 

[HisArpy]

Your dumbfuckery is your greatest strength. I’ve listened to some of the right wing pundits say exactly what I posted here, the fact that you can’t read what’s in front of you is funny.

I’m struggling to keep up with the demands for my services right now, so the closest thing I may have for jealousy of you is that it could be nice to be able to sit on my ass and get “portly” instead oh helping out all the people you think I should be silent about so I don’t overshadow your selfishness with virtue signaling.

What do you ‘produce’ that contributes to other people’s lives? You probably consider your enormous tax burden to be your biggest contribution while bitching about it to no end.

The world would be a better place with one less attorney while I’m an employer and a contractor in high demand.


Again, in the words of your own personal sage:

Denial is the watchword for asshats like you.

You began with denying what you are and moved outward from there until now you deny the reality which unfolds in front of your eyes and have begun to demand that others deny that reality as well.

That you don't like it when this is pointed out to you only proves that your denials are self imposed and that you're aware of it.

The closing words you used are intelligent and above reproach in clarity and depth when directed at the proper recipient. As the speaker, I am never such. However as that might be, you should listen carefully to such sage words when uttered for your benefit and take heed that others before you have been given the same advice. Others who no longer participate here because they eventually had no other option except to do as so wisely instructed.

 

[AlexBailey]

Denial is the watchword for asshats like you.

You began with denying what you are and moved outward from there until now you deny the reality which unfolds in front of your eyes and have begun to demand that others deny that reality as well.

That you don't like it when this is pointed out to you only proves that your denials are self imposed and that you're aware of it.

The closing words you used are intelligent and above reproach in clarity and depth when directed at the proper recipient. As the speaker, I am never such. However as that might be, you should listen carefully to such sage words when uttered for your benefit and take heed that others before you have been given the same advice. Others who no longer participate here because they eventually had no other option except to do as so wisely instructed.

I’ll bite. What am I denying about “what I am”? How well do you pay attention or care.

Little and none would be my guess. Your value to society and this forum is nil. I challenge you to prove otherwise.

 

[HisArpy]

I’ll bite. What am I denying about “what I am”? How well do you pay attention or care.

Little and none would be my guess. Your value to society and this forum is nil.

You know what I'm referring to as well as the rest of us do.

 

[AlexBailey]

You know what I'm referring to as well as the rest of us do.

Please illuminate me, oh dim bulb.

 

[Rightguide]

You really need to quote better (hint: there's an actual quote feature) and no more than three paragraphs.

"Fair use laws allow some very limited posting of copyrighted material, such as short excerpts from articles (please limit to under four paragraphs) and screen captures from movies, under certain circumstances."

If what you say is true the Forum "terms and rules" need to be amended to say simply "three paragraphs."

 

[HisArpy]

Your best option

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Mus%C3%A9e_Rodin_1.jpg/220px-Mus%C3%A9e_Rodin_1.jpg

 

[ll74]

"Fair use laws allow some very limited posting of copyrighted material, such as short excerpts from articles (please limit to under four paragraphs) and screen captures from movies, under certain circumstances."

If what you say is true the Forum "terms and rules" need to be amended.

Aah, I was always told it was three. My apologies.

Either way, the quote feature is good for.quoting. makes it easier to delineate your comments. Also makes it easier to reply for others. (Not having to scroll through someone else's commentary and actually reply to the commentary)

But you do you

 

[AlexBailey]

Your best option

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Mus%C3%A9e_Rodin_1.jpg/220px-Mus%C3%A9e_Rodin_1.jpg

Thanks! A statue is far more valuable than you.

 

[Rightguide]

Lest we forget (as I'm sure you're hoping we have), here is what you actually said:



If what you really meant was what you said above, then that's what you should have said. But you didn't, you said "the military was successfully desegregated in the early 50s", and anyone who has seen your horseshit as many times as I have knew exactly what you were implying.

Nothing untrue in that statement.

 

[HisArpy]

A statue is far more valuable than you.

So you say. Like a lot of others things you say, that doesn't mean it's true. It only means that you deny reality.

 

[Rightguide]

Aah, I was always told it was three. My apologies.

Either way, the quote feature is good for.quoting. makes it easier to delineate your comments. Also makes it easier to reply for others. (Not having to scroll through someone else's commentary and actually reply to the commentary)

But you do you

I wasn't quoting anyone in particular. I was simply adding a new article to my thread tangential to the subject.

 

[AlexBailey]

So you say. Like a lot of others things you say, that doesn't mean it's true. It only means that you deny reality.

Oh, is Doctor Harpy cherry picking which version of the DSM he wants to recognize again? How was med school?

Also if you think that’s relevant to me you are making incorrect assumptions about how I identify myself.

You are willfully ignorant and obdurate. What a gem.

 

[ll74]

I wasn't quoting anyone in particular. I was simply adding a new article to my thread tangential to the subject.

You quoted an entire article.
That is.what the quote feature is for.

 

[HisArpy]

Oh, is Doctor Harpy cherry picking which version of the DSM he wants to recognize again? How was med school?

Also if you think that’s relevant to me you are making incorrect assumptions about how I identify myself.

You are willfully ignorant and obdurate. What a gem.

Your poor attempt to converse, being limited by your lack of intellect, is without interest or value.