However, finding quality recruits is a growing concern. In June, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23 percent of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29 percent in recent years.
The difficulty in recruiting increased with the Biden administration’s demands of mandatory Covid vaccinations. As we reported earlier, the military vaccine mandate is currently being challenged as unlawful by ranking military officers. The requirement certainly is cause for concern for potential recruits, especially those who want to remain unvaccinated. Plus, the loss of active-duty military men and women to early retirement and not reenlisting due to the mandate is compounding the problem of maintaining military personnel numbers.
Then you have the controversial Marxist woke policies being rapidly instituted by the Department of Defense with their mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training. These policies clearly go against the Army’s planned focus on “quality over quantity.”
As we also reported earlier:
The Army recently ran anime lesbian wedding ads, which is pushing away the recruits it needs, young patriotic men and women from traditional backgrounds. Then you have the mandatory transgender pronoun training presentation “Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria,” which is part of a larger push by the Biden administration to make the military more welcoming to transgender people. “The Army allows transgender soldiers to serve openly,” states the presentation, which is tailored for Army commanders and leaders. “An otherwise qualified soldier shall not be involuntarily separated, discharged, or denied reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity.”
While Gen. Brunson remains optimistic about the Army’s recruitment practices, it is obvious that the problem with enlistment numbers emanates from poor leadership by the commander in chief.
Even with the numerous obstacles in recruitment being addressed, the major obstacle and true enemy to our military is, sadly, our own government led by Biden and his woke allies.