The Trans Movement Just Hit Home.......

[SunsetBengal]

(05-12-2023, 09:23 PM)Nately120 Wrote: There is a lot to unpack here.  So we are in free-fall into destruction but young people are too comfortable and young people are too wrapped up social issues to care about protecting the freedom of the world?  Anyways, the issues leading to the falling recruitment numbers have many causes, not the least of which is our inability to provide the army with a population of qualified young people.

We raised a crop of kids who are too uneducated and too out of shape to meet our prior standards for military service.  We're the adults here, so this is on us, not them.  Unfortunately, I see our country continuing to defund education and continuing to subsidize food industries that are making us all fat and unhealthy to the point where anyone with a pulse will be admitted to the army.  Lower the bar, we're not preparing our youth to uphold prior standards.  If someone who is 18 isn't fit to join the army it seems a bit unfair to say "Hey, you've been an adult for 15 seconds, this is on you, not us!"



Interesting.  I figured if I compared the USA to the fall of Rome most people would say that I was overreacting to Trump's first term and the impending shadow of us crawling back to him.

To first bolded.  When I first met my (at that time) to be son in law, he was about to graduate HS and join the Marines.  We were on family vacation and our daughter thought that it would be nice if he helped me split wood for the evening campfires.  At that time he was a very doughy 215, and tired after a few swings on the splitting maul.  Me, near 50 at the time just kept swinging and swinging.  He says, "how do you do that?", I say "I don't know, I just want the wood to be cut for the fire".  Long story short, he made it through basic, graduated at 168, and is now an Aviation electronics specialist.  When his enlistment is completed, he'll likely start out at 1.5x what I currently make.  I'm proud of him, but he is the anomaly, compared to most in his generation.

Second bolded, I don't see Trump getting re-elected, or Biden getting a second term.  America is indeed at a crossroads.