Re: Hamas is recruiting well on college campuses.***

I'm willing to bet the lower levels of Recruiting Command have been sounding off for more than six months with: "hey boss - we are losing recruiters left and right at our station with no replacements programmed to come in - we need some help down here".

To get to a situation where 800 NCOs are told to report to school within 6 days speaks to senior leaders not acting on the voices bubbling up from below AND not paying attention to their own personnel stats. Whether that was happening inside Army Recruiting Command or at DA itself (or possibly both) I don't know...

It should never have gotten to this point of an "oh shiit - we gotta get 800 recruiters in the pipeline as of yesterday". There should have been a ramping glide path in assignments for the past 5 months giving these NCOs ample notice that their time in recruiting purgatory is coming.

True to their calling, I imagine these 800 NCOs are going to salute the flag and do their damndest to get through recruiting school, move their families and hit the recruiting trail running. It just irritates me to no end that no one in leadership will be held accountable for jerking these NCOs and their families around like this.

The lack of accountability at the senior ranks is one of the biggest problems we have in the military and has been for some time now. It has gotten progressively worse since Rumsfeld took it upon himself to rid the services of any Flag Officer who dared espouse a professional opinion contrary to his own. From there Rummy made sure the Flag Officer success path was one of "Corporate/DC yes men Flag Officers" which is what we largely have today.

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Is declining interest in the Academies a reflection of Leadership?

Nov 2, 2023, 8:54 PM [ in reply to The less than a week immediacy is pretty much the whole issue ]

This is only anecdote, but here goes.

My second cousin is a super student, is a good athlete, is very popular, has a fascination with military history, and is in JROTC. He is also a nature and wildlife aficionado. He is unusually mature for his age and is OK with not getting a smart phone until college.

His family is very comfortable financially; he doesn’t need the military as a platform through which to finance his education.

My first cousin (the boy’s dad) had thought the boy was of a caliber to maybe get accepted into West Point or Annapolis. We’ll never know. Despite having an affection for environmental matters, he has lost interest in being in the military. His dad, who is also ‘environmentally conscious,’ says that the boy doesn’t understand why our top military leaders cite climate change as America’s most critical national security issue. Like most kids these days, he is aware of homosexuals in society and is not concerned about them. Transexuals, though, do not seem normal to him. He doesn’t understand why the military places so much public emphasis on transsexuality and not as much emphasis on soldierly bearing. The boy also perceives that those in the military are not respected by most in the general public, although he recognizes that many Americans are still respectful of their military men.

Putting it all together, the boy has decided that a career in the military is not what he wants.

(?). Do you perceive any negative trends of talented youngsters eschewing a career as an officer in the military? Is so, then what factor(s) might be prominent in discouraging young people from pursuing a career in the military?

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Army recruiting is a total disaster right now so what did the Army just do?

Re: Army recruiting is a total disaster right now so what did the Army just do?

Hamas is recruiting well on college campuses.***