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November 6, 2009
Social Decay Rots Recruitment Prospects
Posted by Van Helsing at November 6, 2009 10:42 AM
The degenerative disease known as moonbattery is taking its toll, reducing Americans to shameful shadows of what we've been in the past. A nation of brainwashed, bellyaching liberals who spend most of their time in front of the idiot box is making life hard for military recruiters:
About 75 percent of the country's 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service, largely because they are poorly educated, overweight and have physical ailments that make them unfit for the armed forces, according to a report issued Thursday. …
"We are very concerned," said retired Army Maj. Gen. James Kelley, a member of Mission: Readiness, the Washington-based nonprofit organization that issued the report. "We do have the greatest military in the world [—] we have the greatest planes, the greatest tanks, the greatest ships [—] but the key goal is having great people. Right now, we're attracting very highly qualified folks but that could change over time."
Education is such a problem that recruiters have been trying to fill the void left by our union-suffocated government schools, tutoring potential recruits and helping them with their homework.
There are also physical factors, caused by a general wussification of our culture:
[A]bout a third of all potential recruits can't join … because they're too fat and out of shape.
"When you get kids who can't do push-ups, pull-ups or run, this is a fundamental problem not just for the military but for the country," said Curtis Gilroy, the Pentagon's director of accessions policy.
If cultural trends aren't reversed, we'll soon need to import soldiers, like other dying civilizations have done. But we'll still lead the world in producing fashionably liberal metrosexual movie stars.

On a tip from Anonymous Countermoonbat.
Comments
We'll replace them with robots. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Gaius Baltar at November 6, 2009 10:47 AM
"But we'll still lead the world in producing fashionably liberal metrosexual movie stars."
Are you trying to say that Tom Crusie DID NOT fly the plane in Top Gun?? I'll bet you are one of those "racist" people that voted for the real war hero instead of that sharp dressed, liberal guy that reads the teleprompter so well.
Posted by: bjd at November 6, 2009 10:55 AM
Matt 12:29 - How can someone break into a strong man's house and make off with his posessions unless he first ties up the strong man? After that he can ransack his house.
Posted by: Tess at November 6, 2009 11:09 AM
You see this all over the DU (not that any of them would ever join the military): Either grossly fat, or else wispy, girlish physiques on the males and just plain fat on the females. Education: A lot over there think that Obama can fire Pelosi/Reid, and that Pelosi/Reid can fire congresscreeps. Shamfeful.
Posted by: Karin at November 6, 2009 11:16 AM
mmmmm - fashionably liberal metrosexual movie stars -drooooool
Posted by: gay Homer at November 6, 2009 11:17 AM
You think this is bad, wait until you see what ObamaCare does to the medical profession. What intelligent person would spend 10 years in college and rack up hundreds of thousands in debts just to enter a profession where your salary is capped by a Medical Pay Czar, your decisions are second-guessed by government bureaucrats, and you are surrounded by John-Edwards-type ambulance chasers waiting to pounce at any moment.
Posted by: V the K at November 6, 2009 12:17 PM
I just got back from lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant and I was seated next to a table of eight 'educators' of the administrative type. I couldn't help but hear their conversation. To summarize the problem, ignorance in, ignorance out.
Dollars cannot educate but educated educators can. Unfortunately they believe dollars can.
I am just thankful I finished high school before 1975.
Posted by: IOpian at November 6, 2009 12:23 PM
USA isn't worth fighting for anyway.
It's now an anti-white third world shit hole.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 6, 2009 12:56 PM
Don't they PT these kids anymore, or are they expecting them to be battle ready out of the box now?
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at November 6, 2009 3:05 PM
New Zealand is looking better and better. Or maybe Texas can go it alone again. I'm in.
Posted by: jimbob at November 6, 2009 3:06 PM
Don't knock the movie industry too hard; it's one of the few industries in this country that we can export.
Posted by: hey you guys at November 6, 2009 3:37 PM
Don't knock the movie industry too hard; it's one of the few industries in this country that we can export.
That's only because of their pursuit of evil profits.
Posted by: J at November 6, 2009 4:08 PM
Hey Evilwrench
Yes we do PT the new kids who come into the Air Force, but the problem is alot of the new kids are to fat and when their unwilling to do what it takes theres only so much that can be done
Posted by: browncoat at November 6, 2009 4:43 PM
It doesn't take much to get in decent shape and lose a few pounds. Just do 60 situps and pushups a night, run 2 miles at least once a week, and lay of the fatty foods a little. You'll be a new man in a month. Worked for me.
Posted by: conservativeteen at November 6, 2009 5:56 PM
@jimbob
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/economics-of-secession.html
Listen I want all those little trolls to be overweight and unable to move more than a few feet without falling down and wheezing. Like clubbing baby seals!
I do regret that it won't challenge my marksmanship much but I guess I could start at the ankles and work my way up. But watching "weebles" drop isn't that exciting. But I guess I could make it a game.... right shoulder, left shoulder, left crux of the knee.... you get the idea. I shouldn't waist ammunition like that though.
Posted by: FreeWillie at November 6, 2009 5:58 PM
hey conservativeteen
Your right that would work, but the biggest difference between you and them is you were willing to do what it takes
Posted by: browncoat at November 6, 2009 6:11 PM
Instead of real men we end up with a bunch of sissypants puppietards
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at November 6, 2009 9:45 PM
It doesn't take much to get in decent shape and lose a few pounds. Just do 60 situps and pushups a night, run 2 miles at least once a week, and lay of the fatty foods a little. You'll be a new man in a month. Worked for me.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try. I didn't think getting rid of my gut was possible without giving up everything I love and killing myself at the gym. My perception is probably common.
I've been doing 100 crunches and 20 pushups (60, uh, no...) but I haven't run in years. I walk about a mile a day, but it seems like running is so hard on my shins these days. I'm reduced my consumption of mayo by 90%, am down to 1 or 2 sodas a week, drink about 8 glasses of water a day and have almost wiped out my use of artificial sweetener as well.
It's progress but I've got a long way to go. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Cylar at November 7, 2009 1:59 AM
It's video games and the internet (for adults, as well).
It's caving to federally mandated special ed arm twisting with no accompanying funds, which forces state school districts to spend their inadequate allotments disproportionately on things like setting up a classroom containing three profoundly brain damaged kids, and paying three or four teachers and aides to sit with them all day in a specially designed self contained classroom, so that the school can announce that the children are "mainstreamed." I don't believe or condone that those unfortunate kids should not be in the public eye, but the money spent has to come from somewhere, and parents whose tax dollars are purportedly being used to educate their children should at least be able to vote on how that money is spent, rather than having it federally mandated away from their own kids.
In Florida, it's also the evil known as FCAT. FCAT started as one of several assessment instruments, but has metastasized into a ravening beast that sucks all available school dollars to "teach to the test", at the expense of every activity that used to make school enjoyable. Teachers hate it, parents hate it, kids hate it, yet it lives and grows stronger, to the detriment of student minds and bodies.
Posted by: avalon at November 7, 2009 5:51 AM
RE: Posted by: bjd at November 6, 2009 10:55 AM
bjd is sarcastically incredulous with, "Are you trying to say that Tom Crusie DID NOT fly the plane in Top Gun?? I'll bet you are one of those "racist" people that voted for the real war hero instead of that sharp dressed, liberal guy that reads the teleprompter so well."
My late father (TonyD15A?) said of the Tom Cruise character, "When I was an instructor (in military flight training) I saw guys like that......it was my job to help weed 'em out".
He was, of course referring to the reckless, irresponsible egotistical blowhard behavior exhibited by the Cruise "Maverick" character, and the many others like him in that film. They perpetuate the myth that military aviators are a bunch of juvenile delinquents.
If he had been here to do it, I'm sure he would have voted for the Navy Fighter Pilot / Moose Shootin' Mama in the last election.
The shame of it is, ACORN probably saw to it that he "voted" for that Teleprompter reading empty suit that is currently shown on the org chart as CIC.
Posted by: TonyD95B at November 7, 2009 9:42 AM
I walk about a mile a day, but it seems like running is so hard on my shins these days.
You need more exercise, not less. Walking a mile a day ain't doodly. I'm convinced that 99% of all physical problems result from too little use, not too much. Stretch out thoroughly every day, come hell or high water. Run/walk your mile (i.e., run what you can, walk a bit, then run some more), and then when you get bored with that routine, gradually increase it by just a little until you can run the whole mile. Then run/walk two, etc. Push - gently, but insistently (hmmm - that reminds me of something ...right ... back to topic). Chip away.
I qualify for AARP membership, and, doing this, my time home to first is on the slow end of MLB players, i.e., I wouldn't the slowest guy in the major leagues.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 7, 2009 6:07 PM
who spend most of their time in front of the idiot box?
There aren't any Republicans aren't overweight and watch too much TV?
Don't.
Talk.
Shit.
Posted by: Aquatarkus at November 8, 2009 6:53 PM
Jay Guevara:
You're doing that typical insular American conservative thing of assuming that someone else is exactly the same as you.
Maybe the other person just has shitty joints and muscles and can't do anything about it.
Now that I know you have a PhD and are probably retired makes the fact that you always bitch at me infinitely funnier.
Posted by: Aquatarkus at November 8, 2009 7:27 PM
It's caving to federally mandated special ed arm twisting with no accompanying funds, which forces state school districts to spend their inadequate allotments disproportionately on things like setting up a classroom containing three profoundly brain damaged kids, and paying three or four teachers and aides to sit with them all day in a specially designed self contained classroom, so that the school can announce that the children are "mainstreamed."
Posted by: avalon
So we should just give up trying to help special needs kids?
Do you have any idea how difficult life is for those kids and their parents?
Being ridiculed by many and patronised by the rest?
Fuck you.
Posted by: Aquatarkus at November 8, 2009 7:36 PM
Actually,little miss know it all, I happen to be a special ed teacher, and have been for years. I've helped more special needs kids than you will ever see. As such, I've seen first hand over the years the massive amounts of money required to keep a few children in a situation that may or may not be the best place for them, at the very definite expense of the vast majority of students who don't require special assistance. The money is finite and is pulled from the school's, not the federal government, resources.
I was simply saying that the federal government should put its money where its sanctimonious mouth is, much like you.
Posted by: avalon at November 10, 2009 7:44 PM
What happened to RESPONSIBLE parenting people?
Who are you blaming for all this, honestly.
Our kids sit on their behinds and eat junk food and play video games.
I'm confident that all those responsible "conservative" and good ol' Christian family values parents certainly don't have fat kids and have perfect kids.
So I suppose we'll be seeing them serving our country right? Cheney, Limbaugh, both are "fit" to serve our country, why don't they?
Posted by: Michael Scott at November 10, 2009 8:13 PM


