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The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse.
That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.
Between 2018 and 2023, white Army recruits, once the mainstay, fell from a bare majority of 56% to a minority at 44%.
This was not an unintended effect, but policy.
“We are an Army that wants to look like America,” Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, the first black head of Army Recruiting Command, had proclaimed.
Gen. Gary Brito, the first black head of Army Training and Doctrine Command under whose purview recruiting falls, and the former deputy Army chief of staff for personnel, had boasted of Army “listening sessions” on racism, diversity and inclusion in order to maximize diversity.
Military brass had been tasked with creating a military that “looked more like America” and as a result the number of white Army recruits declined year by year and fell 43% from 44,042 in 2018 to 25,070 in 2023.
Black, Hispanic and other minority recruits became a majority, but there weren’t any more of them than there had been before. Minorities were joining the Army at the same rate as they had before, but with fewer white recruits they had become a majority by default.
Pushing white men away with DEI struggle sessions, affirmative action quotas and mandatory pronoun training was supposed to open the door for minorities who were being ‘blocked’ by the ‘whiteness’ of the military from joining up and serving, but the minorities aren’t showing up.
Equity had created a recruitment crisis with a majority-minority enlistment population that looked good on paper, but without the white recruits, the Army experienced a shortfall of 10,000 recruits. Rather than growing the Army, the emphasis on DEI had shrunk it instead.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth urged “strategically deploying recruiters to communities across the country based on demographics, ethnicity, race, and gender.”
40% of military recruits come out of the South, 44% come from rural areas and the Army instead began recruiting in “underrepresented cities” like Baltimore, Minneapolis, and New York City.
Wormuth, who got her start as a Clinton intern, complained that, “today more than 80% of recruits come from military families. There is a risk of developing a warrior caste when only 1% of the population serves in the military.” But without the “warrior caste”, no one serves.
Woke military leaders turned their backs on the white rural men from military families who represented their recruitment base and instead began chasing minority recruits in NYC.
A Quinnipiac poll from 2022 found that if America were invaded, 70% of men, 40% of women, 57% of white men, 61% of Hispanics and 38% of black people would stay and fight. Military recruitment has been retooled to focus on those least likely to want to fight for America.
West Point was turning away even very well qualified white candidates while its Director of Admissions admitted that “every qualified African-American applicant were offered admission into West Point, yet the class composition goal was still lacking.” The goal was the United States Military Academy’s intensive quota system meant to cut 20% of white officers from the mix.
The Academy has been sued by qualified white candidates, including a high school student with a 4.2 GPA, three family members currently serving in the military and a grandfather who fought in the Army on D-Day, who were kept out because their skin color was not diverse enough.
Beyond the Army, this was a problem that was taking place across the entire military.
The Senate recently voted to confirm Charles Q. Brown Jr. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. While serving as Air Force Chief of Staff, Brown had endorsed a 43% quota for white male officers at a time when 86% of pilots are white men. That’s how you get recruitment shortages.
As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Brown is in a position to deepen the military’s systemic racism.
The recruitment crisis was a case of the woke military leadership getting almost exactly what they wanted. White men, locked out of career tracks, forced into implicit bias and pronoun training, have opted out. Military families are telling their kids not to serve and ending the “warrior caste” that Army Secretary Christine Wormuth was worried about. And with Army recruiters focusing on Baltimore and New York City, instead of the rural South, potential recruits are left behind. But the woke military is struggling and failing to find the woke recruits it wanted.
It was always the rural white men who were going to be the likeliest to fight and die for America.
“We’ve never offered $50,000 to join the Army,” Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, head of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, had said. You can’t pay anyone enough to hold the line on the battlefield.
The Army turned away those who would serve for love of their country and can’t seem to find enough of those diverse Gen Z’ers with multiple pronouns who will serve for money.
The leaders who have made these decisions have blamed the crisis on everything except their policies. They claim that obesity, the job market, opioids and even an “underfunded public school system” are the reasons that recruits aren’t showing up. The real reason is racism.
Their racism.
The recruitment crisis consists of the missing white men who aren’t showing up for duty.
The military doesn’t have a recruitment crisis: it has a systemic racism crisis. Reversing the recruitment crisis requires getting rid of DEI. Woke military leaders have claimed that they need DEI to prepare for the diverse recruits of tomorrow, but the diverse recruits aren’t coming.
The U.S. Army signed a $4 billion marketing contract with Omnicom, one of whose subsidiaries worked on the Biden campaign, to market the military. It could tear up that contract, save the money and restore the traditions of honor, colorblind service and integrity that made it strong.
Ending woke systemic racism in the military will also end the recruitment crisis.
They accomplished their main two goals in one fell swoop.
Weaken America and make whites truly powerless.
Big celebration. Lots of liberals rubbing their hooves together.
DEI is a social cancer, killing any that are afflicted with the disease. Mediocrity is the goal and destruction of America the ultimate end of DEI.
It is DIE, Diversity Inclusion Equity.
Why is every so blind.
John Lennon’s son just called them Dumb Evil Idiots. Seems to sum it up pretty well.
What was once the greatest military force in the world has become a joke since it has gone “woke”.
It is hard not to believe today that America is kaput.
The best thing for people to do is to focus on taking care of oneself, family, and like-minded friends.
The devil take the hindmost.
We have lost every war since 1950 Korean war, Afghanistan was an utter failure,we were run out and immediately the Taliban took control. Twenty years for nothing. Likewise V.Nam was a flop. We can’t seem to do anything right in the middle east either, that’s why we are still there since desert storm in ’91.
After our resounding victory in WW II we fell into the lazy habit of assuming that our armed forces were, and would always be, the best and most powerful in the world, and invincible in battle against any foreign enemy–which, at the time, they had proven they were.
That comfortable assumption lasted for about 5 years–until the Korean War, the first time we went hat-in-hand to the U.N. for “permission” to fight, and even then only with “one hand tied behind our back.”
Since then we’ve never won a war where we felt the need to “ask” some corrupt, hostile globalist organization, or the editorial board of the NYT, for “permission”–the meek, timid attitude that prevails to this day.
If, G*d forbid, we have to fight another war (short of the brief, insignificant invasion of Grenada against a handful of weak, badly outgunned enemy “troops” and construction contractors) we’ll lose, and lose badly.
Not a good place to be in as Communist China tees-up their plans to invade and conquer the Republic of China (Taiwan) with their own military, which is now much larger and more powerful than ours, thanks to the Communists’ theft (or as often as not, outright purchase from corrupt American defense contractors and bribed politicians) of our best state-of-the-art technology and weapons.
How many LGBTQ, or Transexual officers and men(?) does the PLA recruit for the sake of “Diversity” and “Inclusion”?
And, of course, our own huge domestic Fifth Column, which now controls all of our most influential institutions, works energetically 24/7/365 to undermine even our will to defend ourselves and our allies, and deters us from having the means to do so. They question whether we, and they, are still even worth defending.
Former(?) JCS Chairman Mark Milley’s announced intention to give his Communist Chinese counterpart a “heads-up” if Trump ordered any move against Communist China’s interests can only be characterized–and should have been, but wasn’t–as the capital crimes of Treason and Mutiny.
Milley’s attitude now seems to be ubiquitous among our highest-ranking military commanders. We no longer have any Pattons, or Nimitzes, or MacArthurs, or Halseys in charge.
May G*d help us…but my fear is that He will give us (or let us do) what we deserve, and have willingly and voluntarily brought down on our own heads.
WhiteHunter – Thank you very much for your concise comment(s).
As one that acknowledged the words of JFK in 1963 – “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country…”. I enlisted in the USN after HS graduation in 1964 … served 4 yrs. 4 mos.
As old as I am I can substantiate the validity of all that you expressed. You covered a “lot of ground” and I especially appreciate your concluding statement.
Sadly … there are so very many that don’t understand … this land is not our home (intended).
The prideful great deceiver, while he knows he loses in the end, must be wringing/rolling his hands, and gleefully snarling at the chaos caused by the ones he has influenced.
A special thanks to the treasonous Mark Milley and the incompetent Lloyd Austin for falsely accusing Whites of racism and even terrorism. Two more incompetent and treasonous employees of the US military have never lived.
They should be Court-martialed for treason and receive the appropriate punishment
I served 4 years in the U S Air Force (1961-1965). During my last 3 years at Ramstein Air Base I enrolled in University of Maryland courses and received approximately one year of college credit. This prepared me for the opportunity to complete college and graduate school upon being Honorably Discharged. I achieved the rank of Senior Airman (E4) in about 3 1/2 years which was difficult but achievable if you put your mind to it.
Many airmen did not achieve rank simply because they had such a callous attitude. Most of the black airmen wanted to shoot pool, play cards, drink, etc. White airmen, on the other hand, put in the effort and received the promotions. Blacks looked at the small picture while whites looked at the big picture. To me, the rank had its privileges along with a larger paycheck. You should be rewarded for what you put into your life and enjoy what you can take out of it. Color and quotas should not be a determining factor.
the military now is like a banana republic military. Not set up for fighting wars but set up to prevent a loss of internal power and provide jobs to the ‘right” people.
As they retire at a relatively young age they will populate boards , govenment agencies and the like to truely establish a nomenklaturea
Lol. What if the NBA wanted their hiring policies to “reflect America”?
That would work – if the basket were lowered ten feet.
It would work if it were lowered 2 feet.
They will, but only insofar as it involves hiring incompetent transgender or Muslim players.
Thanks Daniel! The public seems to be waking up.
The right to serve in a nation’s armed forces is a mark of citizenship, Those not trusted who are instead scapegoated are second class citizens at best. Then service is the mark of class privilege.
It sounds as if they have tried their experiment of seeing whether reducing the proportion of white recruits would increase the number of entrants who were people of colour, and have proved conclusively that whatever was limiting the interest of the latter, it wasn’t the former. So now they can return to earlier recruitment practices, surely? Or maybe they could just ask people in their final year at school or university whether they have considered the military as a career, and if not, why not.
Recruiting isn’t the root of the problem. It’s what the potential applicants see after joining that’s the problem. Feckless leadership (Afghanistan), woke culture, having to constantly walk on eggshells around the easily offended, promotions based on diversity and not merit etc…
If West Point wants to attract more applicants and recruits “of color,” they should be looking for those in the mold of Col. Allen West.
But men like him would be instantly rejected as applicants, and certainly for promotion, as “extremists” and “the black face of white supremacy” as soon as their columns here on FB, and their posts on “social media,” were noticed.
Remember, Col. West was cashiered for firing his pistol harmlessly into the ground, successfully frightening a captured terrorist into confessing his (the terrorist’s) group’s plans to ambush and kill West’s men the next day, which saved West’s troops’ lives.
Imagine that “outrage”–frightening an enemy terrorist into revealing his plans, instead of keeping him comfortable and smugly uncooperative!
I remember, when I learned of Col. West’s actions, thinking the men under him would adore and trust him. If the first did not work, the second could be a knee cap – and on and on until the desired effect was achieved.
Thanks for acknowledging Col. West … not mentioning Colin Powell. Check their voting record.
One great, truly patriotic American soldier……..Lt. Colonel Allen West! If only the whole military were made up of men’s men like him……no matter the color!!!!
Wormuth got her start as a Clinton intern? That just tells me her number one job skill is the art of performing fellatio, a Clinton intern requirement. It seems that skill has served her well., and let her rise through the ranks to a cabinet position. I guess this is how we do things now. Is anyone really wondering why it’s all a mess?
The fact that they care about diversity means they don’t care about quality, they don’t want good soldiers. The NBA wants good basketball players. How diverse is it? Also, they shouldn’t care about recruits from military families, about a warrior caste. How many actors, actresses, and singers come from entertainment families? How many politicians come from political families?
You have summed it up well, Miranda Rose. It makes me think that if thE NBA – or even any long-term top sports team, men or women’s was to be given the contract for recruitment we would have a sharp, focussed, and prideful military.
Thank you🙂! I’m glad you agree.
And the word, “meritocracy” is like showing a cross to devil.
This administration and its leaders in the military are striving for Idiocracy. Much like the movie.
Looks like replacement theory will have its negative effect on America and the World.
Removing Whites who invented just about everything that makes living on this ungrateful World so enjoyable.
Let’s take back Electricity, space travel, airplanes, automobiles, computers and so much more.
Than let’s see how these fools survive.
Don’t forget penicillin, vaccinations against disease, and antiseptic surgery.
End Dual Citizenship! This problem will solve itself!
”money and restore the traditions of honor, colorblind service and integrity that made it strong.”
Cant restore something that was never there. The US military has been a skate party for minorities (blacks and dumb women) since the 70’s
Very much so, and then they get promoted to fill the quotas.
The next “Pearl Harbor” will FORCE reality upon the legion of service academy grads who were force-fed this DEI crap, and the enlisted ranks will overthrow the officers’ cake-eating parties.
Haven’t heard anyone demanding to know the race/color of the two SEALs missing at sea.
“… The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation…”
George Washington
From the minute you walk in the gate at a Recruit Training Center, the recruit becomes a punching bag. It’s part of the process of building strong soldiers and sailors from weaker raw material but, more importantly, it teaches the kind of team building you won’t find at any seminar. The recruit is forced to rely on his teammates at first until bonds are established and soon, in short order, the recruit no longer exists. Only the unit remains, which is stronger than the sum of it’s parts. This is a time-honored tradition and method of building Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines that has stood the test of time.
…until now.
Thanks to DEI and woke positions by higher up’s, there can no longer be a functioning team with white males in them because the white male NEVER stops getting punched, while other than white males are being taught that whites deserve those punches. There can be no unit, because UNITY was never established. My only surprise is that white recruitment didn’t drop more than 43%.
When Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen said he wanted an Army that “looks like America”, I wonder if he realized how on the mark he was…because the military is now just as dysfunctional as most of woke America.
The first concept I learned at NTC Orlando Navy bootcamp was, the Navy’s goal was to strip the recruit of their “individuality” and force the 80 yammering, snot-nosed, hormone-poisoned, “Burger Kings” to work as one big team.
Our 1987 graduating class won every unit flag possible for excellence , and (sorry, but this Sailor’s gotta brag) I was awarded the Academic High Performer award, 1st of 80. (it helped that I was 26 years old at the time,)
It was 32 years ago this very day that Operation Desert Storm kicked off… and I witnessed our Navy S-3 Viking squadron flying off the USS Ranger (CV-61) for 42 consecutive nights into a piece real estate on this Earth that blistered with over 17,000 anti-aircraft batteries,
That “teamwork” that was drilled into those 5000 MEN (only) onboard that carrier was insane to witness. Deemed “The Night Carrier”, Ranger launched over 100 sorties every night for 6 weeks straight with no shipboard fatalities. (2 A-6 Intruder Aircrew were lost the next night by anti-aircraft fire during a mining operation)
Thanks ET1 for your comments and your service
Navy callsign “Hardball”
Former Naval Aircrewman AW2
S-3 Viking Sensor Operator (SENSO)
VS-38 Fighting Red Griffins
Air Wing 2, USS Ranger (CV-61)
Hooyah! Ahoy, mate! Couldn’t agree more, Hardball. Witnessing a ship’s crew during combat operations is one thing, but functioning as a cohesive member of that crew is another thing entirely and something I wish everyone could experience to truly understand the meaning of teamwork. America as a whole would benefit from the experience. Thank YOU for your service, brother.
I was 5th grade spelling bee champion at Cordello Ave School in 1967. Admittedly, I still don’t know who Cordello was… 🙂
From a Vet to a Vet, you may want to read the other article on FPM today about “Warrior / Scholars”
… and read the new book the author is refers to.
There would be a huge difference if the message were, “We don’t care what your race is, if you want to defend this great country, come on in.” That’s inclusive. Much different from, “we need to punish people and discourage them from joining because of historic injustice.”
You TV/Armchair SEAL Team Operators, question: What color is the Operator next you while you have “night vision” on?
The heart of the warrior is formed by love of what is behind him – his place, his people, his family, legacy and heritage. This is almost now completely destroyed. For whom and for what do we now fight?
Ostensibly, this recruitment ad was rescinded after the black star actor was involved in a domestic violence issue. But I wonder if this ad was removed because it is too white, with too much emphasis upon our history? It is an excellent ad:
EXCELLENT video… only one thing I’d point out.
The “one obstacle” he doesn’t mention is that the vast majority of this planet is water, i.e., vast oceans…
Go Navy!
I don’t know about you, but if I had to join the Navy today, I probably wouldn’t. Belay that, I wouldn’t. In 1977 I was a poor high school dropout with a GED, and college wasn’t an option. My Navy training and experience led me down the road to a successful life. Maybe the best decision of my young life. It would be a huge loss if that oppurtunity slips away.
Great video to recruit for WWI or WWII. Today what are you fighting for? More DEI opportunities, leftist ideals and corrupt politicians perpetuation. The fall of America is from within!
If the aim is an army full of George Floyd’s, free fentanyl ought to do the truck.
They want a military screwed up like America.
Somebody ought to inform this administration of Newton’s Third Law of Motion. You can’t endlessly crap on a group of people and not expect them to react. Well, the Left has destroyed all of our other institutions, why not the military, too?
Liberal ideas, and certainly what libs can control ruin EVERYTHING they touch.
When the pilot takes the stick, I do not care of the color of their skin or ethnicity.
I only care if they are the best qualified for the task.
Who wants an AA dentist, anesthesiologist, or plumber or electrician?
I am tired of this equality Bullhockey.
DEI is way beyond racism. It’s designed to destroy any institution from within.
The people who created the DEI, should be tried for treason. Ina trial their real intentions will be revealed.
I’m waiting for the first all transgender Special Forces team! They will be non-existent after their first real combat mission.
Sarge: “Everyone move to your positions and prepare to engage”
Team member: Uh, can we wait one, Sarge, I haven’t put on my hormones yet…”
The Red/Green Axis must be rubbing their hands with glee!
When we have Lloyd Austin running the military, yet can’t be bothered to do his Constitutional duty of being accessible as the 7th person in succession to the President, what messages are the recruits getting?
Once I would have told my son the military was a noble career path. Today, I’d tell him to steer clear of it.
Lib genius idea #1: “Let’s give blacks separate dorms and classes and graduation ceremonies.”
Lib genius idea #2 “That worked, so let’s try some blacks only companies and divisions throughout all the branches of the U.S. military.”
Conservative MAGA genius idea: Stop the communist government before it kills us.
I have a very bright nephew who went through an ROTC program, was going to make career in the Army like his father. He got out of the Army during the Obama years….he could see where all of this was going then.
Folks send your white children to the military and here’s what will happen;
1. The blacks will subjugate them and intimidate them when they first step off the bus at basic training.
2. Get raped
3. Get violently hazed.
4. Be denied promotions of rank or job because they are white.
5. Get the worse military jobs.
6. Get sent to fight wars for our enemies.
7. Get arms and legs blown off.
8. Receive inadequate treatment at the VA.
ALL BECUASE THEY ARE WHITE.
End Dual Citizenship, the source of this problem!
The last census peg the white population at around 60%, so why would the U.S. Army think being 56% white made them “not look like America?”
So, in essence, what the woke military leadership pushing DEI has proven beyond a doubt is that there never was “systemic racism” against minorities in the first place…
They were just pushing left-wing Dem Party propaganda all this time…
Staying out of the US military when the US government is run by the corrupt woke leftist DEI CRT dem lunatics is the
right thing to do for young people.
“The wild beasts have their dens to retire to, but the brave men who spilled their blood in our defense have nothing left but air and light.”
I was a member of the warrior caste. We started our service to America before the rest of the country existed. We refused to surrender our cannons at Concord Massachusetts on 19 April 1775 and have been in service every generation since.
I only served a bit over 9 years, oldest brother 6 and midlle brother 17. My eldest went to Iraq and my niece and her husband serve now.
They are the LAST generation. No more, we have done our share and more. We didn’t leave the Army, if left us.
It is hard not to believe today that America is kaput.
The best thing for people to do is to focus on taking care on oneself, family, and like-minded friends.
The devil take the hindmost.
Lloyd Austin, upon becoming SECDEF, immediately commissioned an investigation into White supremacist and extremist organizations. The study concluded neither existed in any type of systemic form or otherwise. Have any of you seen the results reported on in the Main Stream Media? I guess it doesn’t fit the democrat narrative.
Southern white boys have been the core of our army since the 19th century. The big question in the Spanish-American War was would the South unite with the country and send its young men. Southern recruits poured in at an incredible rate. I guess they are more ‘warlike’ down there.
Leftists are baffled that the people they’ve been teaching all their lives to hate their country, aren’t enlisting to defend it. Their excuses are comic.
It’s amazing how clueless leftists are when it comes to what motivates most people to enlist, even leftists in the military They’ve bought their own bs regarding the military for so long, they’re incapable of thinking any other way. It was an interservice joke that we were America’s cheap labor force. We obviously didn’t enlist for the money.
I am retired Air Force and ashamed at what they have done to it. I will not recommend anyone in my family or close friends join now. They blew it. Also, if they wanted a force to look like America you can do that only one way – the Draft. And make the rich serve as well. No college exceptions. But they aren’t really serious.
If there’s one way to get a feminist to put on an apron, get back in the kitchen, wash dishes and cook, it will be to institute a draft (of which I’m against) where women are chosen.
The Air Force Academy told white, straight males NOT to apply for a fellowship that was being offered.
Where is the Math???? The Army reported white recruits account for 44%, which is a 12% drop.
According to the recruitment data obtained by Military.com, 56.4% of new Army recruits were designated as white in 2018. By 2023, the number of new white Army recruits decreased to just 44%.
Demonizing white people causes them not to want to join the organization doing the demonizing? This critical thinking business sure is tough…
From the looks of things, we’ll probably need those willing warriors/soldiers here at home rather than in a military that doesn’t respect them because of the color of their skin.
Here’s an even bigger problem:
Even More Young Americans Are Unfit to Serve, a New Study Finds. Here’s Why.
A new study from the Pentagon shows that 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/28/new-pentagon-study-shows-77-of-young-americans-are-ineligible-military-service.html
i guess its ok until the blacks and hispanics realize they the color of the frontline. like the three recently in jordan. all black, all from geogia.. coincidience? not so much. whitey realizes the days of “call of duty” are over. closest thing you can find is the video game and speech is heavily regulated. banning players for wrong speak. i suppose when the blacks and hispanics relaize their exploitation the dei people make the frontline.
This doesn’t appear to be a problem because the Communist Chinese will fill our military requirements along with other immigrants of foreign nations so when the time comes they won’t think twice about taking over the population or confiscate our guns.
It doesn’t help recruiting that soldiers are now required to shower with transies:
“Understand anyone may encounter individuals in barracks, bathrooms, or shower facilities with physical characteristics of the opposite sex despite having the same gender marker in DEERS.”