Admiral PISSED Service Members HATE The military?!
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Veteran here. Young men, DO NOT volunteer for this country! The political elites are out of control!
Retired veteran here. I agree. The Pentagon top dogs and the country wants to blame everything on white men, why would any of them want to serve to give up to their lives for a country that hates them? Also, many are learning how their kids are being sent to protect foreign lands because of bureaucracy best interests that they profit from instead of protecting our own land at the southern border. Naw, it’s not worth it. Let them send their own damn kids.
Agree, but how would an outside attack resolve itself? once our enemies find out that were vulnerable, we are going to become open season and if we have these demoncrats keep running the country, it's going to be racist to take arms against the enemy 🤡 we are screwed.
The VA treated thousands of illegals while making thousands of us vets continue waiting.
I love the idea of America. The concept and the constitution. I don't love this country anymore though and I'll never pick up a rifle again to defend it. This isn't America. I'll defend my friends and family. I'll defend countrymen who prove themselves to me. Everyone else can find themselves on the business end until I decide if they're actually Americans or a simp for either political party.
@@ericalbers4867 my thoughts exactly
I did four years in the Navy, 1976 to 1980, but I wouldn’t join today, too much gay Wolk shit going on! Also, I thought our government was pretty bad back then, 10 times worse now!
One of the longest running, biggest, free ,and effective recruiting programs ever has been veteran family members. Now that we are seeing what's happening to the armed forces we are no longer even suggesting to our sons, nephews, and brothers to join.
💯. Many of us who served are the daughters and sons of former and retired service members. Retention is really bad at the moment, and past and present service members are telling their children and relatives to not sign up. The publicity is not good, public or private, for any of the branches
@@Lady_Aradia It's a shame too because when my son was a little one I was definitely guiding him to serve because it did so much for me but nowadays, no way.
Yep, and when those Families look around and see what’s going on in the country, see traditional patriotic families getting crapped on daily, they tell their kids no way.
grandfather father me. not my son.
Straight facts. I would advise any young person to be very careful before signing up. It’s a shame because it was the best decision for me (21 years active and guard AF), but right now? I’d recommend they explore other options.
Tell the Admiral to look in the mirror. He’s one of the leaders that created that environment. Tell him to blame himself and his other buddies with stars. They are the leaders.
The worst people among us rose to the top while losing the 20 year terror war. Results matter, remember? The first step to getting any better is admitting what the problem truly is.
Seeing that they made thousands get out from 2000-2015 and then cry about a shortage. Along with who wants to be a disabled veteran and be on the poor list. Come lose your legs for 3600 dollars a month. Sounds like a great job
Yep, if the Admiral wants to find out why, he should put on his big boy pants, be strong and brave and go to a couple of high-schools and speak with senior classes and listen to what they say.
What cracks me up is I always heard leaders talking about ownership and accountability. None to be found in their ranks though. They are politicians in uniform
i think the person who has the most responsibility for the military's current recruiting situation is bush jr. with how much of s show iraq and then Afghanistan was. The majority of the population think our politicians are lying scum bags. these are the same people who decide when we go to war. bush definitely lied and misrepresented the situation in Iraq. No one wants to serve to make rich theives richer. if a avg iq person wants to make the world a better place they know the us military isnt really a good investment for them
With leadership like this, who needs enemies?
Just like how the Roman empire fall was within the Roman empire they typically destroyed themselves.
You should have seen the "leadership" we had in Vietnam. Compared to them, I would follow these clowns to Hell.
Navy to RUclips: "Can you help us?" Service Members: "Fuck the Navy."
"I loved the fucking Navy, and the Navy loved fucking me"!
@@harrykrumpacker871 Well put!
Never again volunteer yourself.
Navy vet here.
I have fucked in the East and I have fucked in the West.
I have fucked the worst and I have fucked the best.
But I'll never be happy and I'll never be free until I fuck the Navy like the Navy fucked me.
Army here: Fuck the Army, too.
I was once a dude in the military. Did airborne infantry things. I was so motivated to move onto bigger and better things in the army and was taking all the right steps and actions to make it happen...I got out after 5 years. Straight up said no to going to the E-6 board. I saw the organization as rotten through and through. What saddens me is that I saw so many hard working motivated dudes to my left and right get d*cked down until they wanted nothing to do with army as an organization. And good dudes, I don't mean the brown nosers, a** kissers, or dudes that thought a sub 13 min 2 mile run time made them great soldiers and leaders.
Unfortunately, I know exactly what you are saying, personally. P.S. from a fellow soldier.
I agree that is exactly why I left as well.
I know exactly how you feel. I was the same way. Your story is so common in Ft. Bragg. When I left active duty I tried the guard for a few years and that was pretty awful with a good olde boy system too. The leadership across the army is populated with truly bad officers and senior NCOs. So many good people fed up don’t make rank and just leave and the worthless garbage stay and run things. It’s not a surprise no one wants to join with so many people sharing their stories online the secret is out. The army and military is not what it used to be to be .
Same thing happened in the Air Force. Did 9 years, and 7 of them I was with some folks who just sucked. They weren’t motivated, they shit on motivated people. They made life hard.
Last two were good, but the wokeness of the military really just put a bad taste in my mouth.
The primary reason I made 21 years was having a different career path from most 11Bs. I did under seven years in FORSCOM, about the same in MDW, five years in TRADOC, and a couple of years in Acquisitions. Earned the CIB, EIB, and Air Assault, along with the Drill Sergeant and Recruiter Badges.
I watched others take their own paths and get rewarded. Meanwhile, I spent years filling necessary but unwanted jobs like Brigade S3 Schools, because, well they were necessary. Made SSG in a little over five years, pinned SFC 11 years later, and now I'm glad to be out.
There's a disconnect between senior leaders and the ones that do the job. Junior leaders tend to either kiss up to their seniors and get promoted quickly, or take care of their subordinates and get overlooked. There's little in between.
Get rid of incompetent leaders and the abuse of rank/position and we'll talk...I recent had hip surgery and my leadership is pissed at me because I can't walk right now...
My buddy just had his third. It took him years to get off the ship
There's a lot more we could add to that list. They need to strip so much red tape and regulations to actually make it efficient. SPEND-EXes and signing out vehicles come to mind. Maybe redo the pay structure. Honestly they could also cut some VA/benefit stuff that a lot of Soldiers don't use or know about. Perhaps give them a pay bump from that and add better benefits or incentives for staying in at least 6 years. Or use that money to have a physical trainer in each platoon for help with meal plans, platoon exercises, and recovery from injury. As it is now, all the benefits basically encourage Soldiers to leave after their first contract and the medical side basically keeps Soldiers perpetually injured or to lie about injury so they don't get the crap duties like extra CQ. Hell, stop 24hr duties and other extraneous tasks when not in "deployment mode". Redo the way officers and NCOs are selected would be good too. Have officers be mustangs with at least a few years of enlisted service while NCOs are selected based on peer-review. Hell, they could redo the pay structure based on a combo of years of service and position. So you can kick bad squad leaders without regard for rank and rotate in fresh blood. Just spit-balling. But bad times mean drastic measures and they're not even trying to find solutions.
Yup. You can expect malingering charges.
The abuse of rank/position is a huge one
😂 improve Dfac, if the lower enlisted are gonna be mandated to have it at least make it decent. Some of the foods are straight ass.
Vids like this make me hug my DD-214 at night 😂😂
I got out of the Marine Corps in 2014 and I keep hearing about guys I served with killing themselves
@@airheadusmc3821that’s awful, no one should go through that
😂😂😂😂
I cried tonight. What did my friends die for? Their families got a death certificate and I got a DD214. Survivors Guilt is real, friends. Live your life like they can''t.
As a retired sailor, Navy can kiss my arse if they want me to help them recruit. 👎
What didn't you like about the Navy could you specify in details?
Everything.
@@rodolfomorenoiii135 I am a Navy father both step daughter and Son long working hrs , deployments going over by months and just the quality of life issues.
@@ronaldbobeck9636
How are the quality of life issues are people hurting themselves? Is there any abuse by the higher superiors?
@@rodolfomorenoiii135 an unhealthy work l
Environment and with the constant harassment by leadership that is against federal law. dealing with my stepdaughter's case. I lost all faith in the US. Military. So yes, l would not council anyone to volunteer for the military.
As a current serving soldier in the Army, even though they won't openly admit it , in your chain of command or in public the fact of the matter is, the real reason mainly for the low recruiting numbers is not just "not enough signing up, or not enough pass the requirements, " it is because a lot in fact a good majority of the kids not signing up because they see the state of our country and regardless of their own personal views or beliefs they just don't like the state of our country, and in all honesty I don't blame them, if I didn't have 6 yrs in already I wouldn't be in the military either.
Did my time in the Army. But if I was 18 right now, I'd flat out tell the recruiter that my voting patterns and my belief in The Constitution makes me an "extremist" in the eyes of the current administration.
Ashley casually mentioning she’s a January 6’er on RUclips goes crazy.
@@TXlowlifeTX Do you suppose I'd have Lloyd from "The Shining" as my avatar if I was female?
I was Field Artillery. Back when the idea of women being in the Field Artillery was not a thing anyone took seriously.
@@ashcarrier6606I thank you for your service! However, it is my opinion that Flynn and/or you, retired police, and/or other public officials receiving pensions where government money was used, and participated in Jan 6, 2021 in anyway as a former member of the US military do not deserve your VA benefits!
@@cyclone4life_isu142 You think I was in D.C.?
Spent 9 years in the Air National Guard (2014-2023). Came in as a young, highly motivated, but naïve troop. Asked specifically for the AFSC I wanted, qualified for it. Got it. Showed up to my shop, and the disappointment was palpable. Bunch of old, grizzled, jaded NCO’s.. just everything about them, turned me off. They’d shit on me for taking pictures of airplanes. They shit on me for volunteering for stuff around the base. I did a pretty successful airshow display from 2015-2019 that was highlighted in a couple of local newspapers. Acknowledged by base leadership.. they shit on me for that.
I went to a bunch of schools that were required for my job. I really wanted to go to Army parachute rigger school, which was an optional school for my career field. Those same negative NCO‘s wouldn’t let me go. It really to this day still bothers me. All I wanted was my parachute rigger wings.
Got into recruiting in 2019, my motivation and efforts were really appreciated. Went to the Chaplain corps in late 2021. Another good section.
But yeah, there are people that just don’t appreciate motivated troops, and they can suck the life out of them quicker than anything .
Same thing happened to my nephew,they jerked him around when he wanted to go into ALNAV after his 4 years on a carrier.He got out and then 911 happened.They recalled him,and sent him to Little Creek,VA. Right where he wanted to be .THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE for the way they jerked him around.
Crabs in a bucket.
Name drop em
Which section or base?
@@Xilladan093 AFE at Stewart air base
I met so many young sailors who faked suicide just to get kicked out of the navy because their commands wouldn't help them with certain problems
I know several sailors who did that too, it’s honestly way too common. That just tells you a lot on how they treat us
I’ve seen that and I’ve seen people purposely smoke weed to get kicked out
We had two people on one of the ships I was on commit suicide.
Yes, this happens a lot and now with social media there's nowhere to hide for the Navy. Service members are easily accessible and have platforms to talk about their negative experiences and quality of life. What they need to do is raise pay to keep up with inflation. That alone would not only help with retention but also recruiting and help the military's reputation
The lack of incoming sailors will mean that those who currently serve will be cycled even harder. That will lead to less retention and make the problem even worse. It’s a downward spiral. Even 30 years ago we never had my division fully staffed so I can’t imagine what’s it like now. It was miserable enough already.
When I was in the Marine Corps in 2013 the wounded platoon was as big as the platoon going to the field. The tempo of the field op stays the same even with less ppl
@@airheadusmc3821When I was in the Army from 92 to 95, I was stationed at Fort Bragg as part of the rapid deployment force, and we weren't allowed to have anyone marked as non-deployable for medical reasons, so even guys with casts on their arms and legs had to go to the field.
@slappy8941 Damn your Sgt Major hated the crippled as well. I never even knew about going to mental health until coming back from Afghanistan. One day in mental health I saw a brand new Marine to the fleet you could tell. He told me this wasn't for him he went to bootcamp, Mct, Mos schooling to graduate get to the fleet only to go to Mental health and tell them it ain't for him anymore. He was saying his chain of command would back off him but he said he was Done 🤔 I never even knew you could do that
I was an Army Recruiter for seven years in three cities during the war in Afghanistan and a surge in Iraq. 0530-2000 Monday - Saturday. Divorce and suicide everywhere. Nobody was joining.
I never thought those numbers could get worse. Well done woke…
As a white male christian with generations of family in the military, I feel as though I would be taking from the BIPOC LGBTQIA communities by joining. I have decided to give up my seat for one of them to go prove themselves against Russian and Chinese soldiers. I wish them good fortune in all their future wars.
During 9/11 they were turning people away, then Iraq, and numbers went down, way down.
Served in the 1980s. I used to tell kids, join the air national guard to learn a skill on the Air Force and some leadership skills, and also go to college while in the guard after basic training and tech school. You can get an associate degree through the Air University as well as your local community college or move onto a four year college.
Now, I just tell them to pay for their own trade school. Being indoctrinate and woke between the military and college is not worth it. Our current commander in chief is also very scary with the lack of support of the military.
Yeah, killing people for oil and treating innocent people across the globe like little toys we can murder for fun was okay, but once gay people started having rights. THAT turned you off, that’s wild shit buddy.
Pal, the current commander in chief has a dead son. Dead because he served in the military. Beau Biden, that's his name.
Meanwhile, the last CiC figures a few years as a teen at a military academy made him more knowledgeable than everybody else.
When at Arlington National, genuinely couldn't figure out why anybody would serve, 'what's in it for them.'
Didn't attend a WW2 memorial service because of a light rain.
Calls people in the military 'losers' and 'suckers.'
Nothing and nobody says you have to like Biden, but figuring he's scary, he doesn't support the military, that's completely against all the facts.
lets say you fix all that, it doesn't change the betrayal of those that served over seas in Afghanistan nor those that were betrayed during covid by piss poor policies, and it will take more then tactics, better recruiting incentives, or "awsome" experiences to get the public trust let alone veterans or retired to advocate for those they encounter to join.
To be fair, nobody was really betrayed during Covid. Here’s what I mean by that. Maybe you had a small percentage that were legitimately pushing back but I guarantee you at least 80% they just saw a way to get out early and took advantage of that which a lot of us would’ve done even back in our day, so it’s not as bad as it’s being made out to be not to mention they got out under honorable conditions so they still get most of their benefits and they got to leave early so it’s a win-win it’s not as if they were really kicked out the way the media makes it look like that I’m justifying it but I’m saying they took advantage of the situation as well
@@tigernotwoods914I know several that were kicked out due to the covid situation and the fact that they got benefits was a surprise to most of them. In any case it was obviously a purge to remove the people who would stand for their rights. While under the guise of safety. 1984.
The people who are angry about the covid policies are really hard to hard to take seriously. This was a world wide pandemic that no living person had experienced at the time. If these covid polices have anything to do with retention and recruiting issues, that lays squarely on the individuals. "Betrayed" lol!!
@@cycologist7069 Yeah because the Navy absolving itself of any responsibility with any side effects really screams they have our backs. Just like Anthrax right?
In business, if you fire someone, it wasn't your employee's fault, it was the employer for not putting them in a position to succeed.
Now translate that to the military, leaders are the ones who failed their men and women, not the other way around. I served 4 years in the marines, my last chain of command left a sour taste in my mouth and I decided to switch my decision about re-enlisting. And I'm glad I didn't sign another contract. Leaders have the responsibility to inspire, yet all they do is find ways to make people's life slightly more stressful every damn year
You're first paragraph is as accurate as a bent barrel. If someone gets fired it can be due to the actions of the one being fired more so than the one firing. Shit bags can be employers or employees.
Trying to equate your inaccurate statement to the flaws of the government is counter-productive to what you want to point out.
Two points, the Afghanistan withdrawal and a illegal order to force a mandatory experimental shot. Both reasons enough to not join.
Are you sure you've written that right? Second part is okay, but the first sentence doesn't make much sense.
10 years in and getting out....they can keep "THEIR" Navy.
What's making you get out? Toxic leadership?????
Yep. So glad when I left.
As rough and tumble as the old Navy was you at least could have some pride in it. This new Navy is just straight up crow crap.
Right there with ya, even in the amount of time I've been in( same as you) it has changed a lot and I just don't believe that "Their" navy and myself share the same beliefs and values
Yep..freshly seperated
What don't like getting passed up for advancement because wrong skin color or alphabet, dude in a dress yelling we going to War Lol
Got out in August and from my experience so far at a state-university, the target population (18-24 year olds) don’t look at the military like a viable career. When I get asked by my classmates if I recommend they join or who should join I respond with “it depends what you want from it and how much bs are you willing to tolerate.”
I don’t regret serving at one, but I feel great sadness to see the fleet in the state it’s in because at the end of the day, it’s the deck plate sailors that will feel this massive gap in numbers. I hope that they don’t get overworked but let’s be real
My 23 y/o Son reenlisted last year. Ship to ship going to Japan soon. 😢 My family is all military but I was hoping he changed his mind about doing 20-30. This military is nothing like she used to be. I tell everyone to stay away. The only way there will be change is if we stop volunteering? Nothing else seems to get through the brass skulls 😢
I use to recommend service, but it depended on what they wanted to get out of service and the bs factor.
Now I can't recommend service because the bs and "woke" factor is through the roof.
Some of the kids I did get in came home and told me how the fleet has changed and I could not believe it. It is a sad state of affairs. I'm a 3rd generation veteran, 2nd generation Navy.
(MM2) I can safely say the poor deck hands and engineers are getting over worked like hell. Already doing that while I was in which was why 60% of my engineers were prisoners on a work release program.
I did four years active duty enlisted, and went to the desert twice and Africa. I went to college after I got out and stacked four degrees topping off w/a masters. I did all that on the MGIB. I have to say sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side. I love my civilian life! When people ask me about enlisting now I tell them to go to school first at get a bachelor's degree. Then after that get a commission in the Guard or Reserves. Those guys only due 1/3 of the work of the active duty enlisted military, and they make 3-5 times the pay.
@@lookingintothevoid8790problem is that will cause a draft again that is much worse
Which ship?@@lookingintothevoid8790
The admirals are one of the biggest reasons I got out. I got sick of being punished for other people's decisions. Because that is the only way Navy leadership knows how to lead.
Social justice has no home in the military.
Facts!
You could have saved yourself three words worth of typing and left it at no home.
The hell it doesn't
I doubt many go in expecting social justice.
However, there is such a thing as a square deal, and that should have a good home in the military.
Instead, it's 'Teamwork- you work for the team, the team never reciprocates.'
Or in America
I'm an ex submarine sailor and I would never advise anyone to join the navy. there are men in dresses running the show and the navy is woke now.
It’s wild how social policy has made right-wingers hate the military now. When like 10 years ago they were shitting on Left wingers for mentioning how we killed innocent people for a natural resource that is killing our planet when it’s burned.
Right wing dudes really know how to pick their shitty battles. Guess innocent lives of Muslims didn’t make you mad. It was the fact gay people can date now.
Exactly. We have weak men in charge of the country.
When I see anyone blame wokeness I just disregard the criticism. It’s such an overused.
Overused or not, you have to have been living in the most isolated part of Alaska for twenty years with no phone, TV, internet, or newspaper to not be able to observe the undeniably woke elements in the modern military and their negative effects on said organization.
Hiding your head in the sand doesn’t change reality.
The problem in all branches for recruiting and retention is leadership. When current members and potential enlistees see how leadership treats people and avoid accountability for their own actions they walk away. Look at LTC Scheller. All he asked for was accountability for the AFG disaster. Nobody in charge was fired or reprimanded. He was simply demanding leadership step up like they expect everyone below them to do. Everyone sees what's happening. Everyone except the people in charge at the top.
Marines just BARELY squeaked by their recruiting goals for fiscal year 2023. I bet they set them low on purpose in anticipation for a bad year so they could be the only branch to look good.
I am a retired Navy Commander (pilot). After Millions of dollars spent on my training and with my experience at its highest, I was pretty much forced out because I was a white male. That was in 2015. I got lucky to make O-5 and now I am kind of like “meh”. I started out as an E-1 in 1987. No way in hell I’d let my kids join the military with the current woke agenda. I started to see who the Navy was advancing over me and I saw the writing on the wall. If I had been a woman or black, I’d be an Admiral.
***SAGE ADVICE***
Our politicians and senior leadership in each service have created this recruiting mess over the past four years! They all need to look in the mirror and conduct a gut check and take the blame! When you put social justice and DEI over the mission, then, well, you end up where we are now. How can I as a 21 year Army veteran (retired) "sell" the Army's story when I am having a hard time having faith in our career minded senior leaders and elected officals. Our son, who is now at Fort Liberty talked about how easy and unmotivating INFANTRY BASIC and AIT was. He said it was a joke because it seemed like Drill Sergeants seemed to scared to yell or correct Soldiers. The entire atmosphere that has been created over the past four years can be blamed on the leadership!
Preach it. Don’t forget the benefits are not exactly what they use to be. The old 20 year retirement is gone. Now you have the blend system which essentially just a modified TSP.
Tuition assistance now on active duty has more restrictions. And if you complete a degree using those benefits they demand more time in service. The cost of college being so high more vets hit the maximum payable allotment of 27k per year under their GI bill and still are forced to take out student loans to fill in a gap if it exist. Graduates school the money doesn’t go that far.
The military overall including the VA need massive reforms and there probably won’t be any in the near horizon.
Well as anyone else ever said they made to take a hard looking mirror for senior leadership there is zero accountability I mean you look at it if any enlisted junior officer feel great officer had the failures that the senior leaders have had they would have been relieved for cause instantaneously I mean how does a person looking to join to the military have faith in their leadership when Afghanistan was completely botched nobody was held accountable The Secretary of defense disappears for days nobody has held accountable who would want to say yes I trust these people to make sure I come home alive
The benefits for retiring were already pretty much cut. Once Biden got in the office all of the base billetings went up 50% or higher. While contracting cheaper hotels outside of bases through the DTS system for official business only. Army privatized all their lodgings.
Gone are the days of $60.00 on base lodging. Now it's more expensive then staying of base if you want to travel.
Name it back to Fort Bragg, and bring back Shark Attacks.
I spent 8.5 years out to sea consecutively and when I finally got shore duties I made it 8 months before getting deployed. So they really dont care about sailors and they wonder why everyone is getting out.
Bro, 8 years at sea CAN'T be healthy. It's a wonder you remembered how to walk on land after that long! That could be considered kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment!
I did almost 6 on carrier.
I'm a 20 year Navy retiree (10 years since 2013) now working as a government contractor doing the same thing I used to do on active duty minus the responsibility, the collateral duties, the watches, and the COMRELs. One thing I have noticed over the last 6 years (been on the current contract for 8 years and its changed hands 3 times) is that more and more things are being contracted out to contract companies that can bring in prior military to do those jobs in order to free up Sailors to focus on deployability. It's a trend I can see increasing in the future. For me I see it as job security but a part of me just looks at the Sailors being overworked, overstressed, and over deployed and cannot see the sustainability going into the next 10 years without some type of change. I hope this admiral actually implements changes that can endure. If there one thing that any active duty, reserve or prior service Sailor can say is that changes come and go based on the guy in the chair. They just aren't that enduring.
A nation that relies on PMC’s and mercenaries is eventually taken over by the same. Ask the Turks.
The military went woke...now going broke 💔
Calling it woke doesn't really do it justice
just assume the military identifies as the military..pssh..racist
@@joebiggs135 yeah it's far worse tone deaf and woke
Slaughtering people for oil and treating innocent people across the globe like little toys we can murder for fun was okay, but once gay people started having rights. THAT turned you off, that’s wild shit buddy
Sadly there will be good kids that die from some guy that they have never met, by orders that two men who have met could have had a conversation and stopped hostilities through a phone call. Disgraceful.
If you want to boost recruitment, stop working people like sled dogs. Eventually word makes it back to the civilian sector. Officers understand numbers, they do not understand the enlisted Sailors mindset.
During the 26 years I served, most of it was spent working all the time, with very little liberty. Had a family to feed/I was poor. Sailors are human beings and they need a work-life balance. Optempo is the reason for most retention problems. What the hell good is a rank promotion when all you do is work???
Enlisted Sailors think much differently than officers and respond to very different types of motivation and leadership. Improve quality of life & stop working people into zombies only then will recruiting numbers improve.
AMEN!!!
I was MM2 when I left in 2005, and they worked the crap out of us. 18/6 standard work days underway. 24/12 liberty calls. And average 12+hour work days Monday - Saturday while in home port. And 5/2 sea/shore rotations.
And they wonder why engineers have a high turnover rate.
I had a Captain who was a Viet Nam fighter pilot, he put his ship on 4 day work week in port 10 hour days, he was a mustang e-1 to Capt, he could not make admiral.
Spent 2 years in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. To have more people to work, C.O. refused barracks. We got a barge to live on in the dry dock with the ship. Constant problems with heat, hot water etc., but we did have a smaller need for fire watches etc. so they got their more work but the living conditions were sh!t !!!
@@WACATX767882
Yep, did that too in San Diego.
That sucked being on that barracks barge.
Commanding Officer went on to become a Vice Admiral and National Security Advisor to President Reagan until ending his career in the Iran-Contra Affair
My experience is from 27 years in the Army both officer and enlisted, Active Duty and National Guard. Despite a mediocre career and some very hard times, I generally view my service in a positive light. I traveled in much of Europe, saw/did a lot of exciting and historical stuff, and managed to pay off my college debt, save a lot of money, invest enough to become a millionaire, and retire at 48 in relative comfort.
But I cannot in good conscience recommend joining at this time. Three reasons starting with the worst to the least worst.
1. American elites - that is to say career bureaucrats, career politicians, media elites, and corporate oligarchs, a.k.a. "The Uniparty" - have interests alien if not counter to the interests of the average citizen. To fight for these malevolent turds is to get deployed to endless wars and a Russian roulette game afterwards where you might end up like me or broke, homeless, depressed, and suicidal. If you survive, of course.
2. Thanks to the Afghanistan collapse the Army is lapsing into a state of moral and material decay reminiscent of the 1970s after the fall of Saigon. I joined in the 80s Army (some of the hard times I mentioned) plagued by a drug fueled crime wave, decaying equipment, poor training, low quality recruits, careerist officers, racism, ROAD senior NCOs and general incompetence. It was a horrible time to serve unless you served in an elite unit. Does that sound familiar to current serving members? I'm sure it does, minus the drug fueled crime wave. It took the better part of two decades for the Army to climb out of that hole. At the current rate we need only a couple more Uniparty regimes to make the entire Army non-deployable..
3. Wokeness. Most young servicemen and women are normalized to this or even believe the propaganda around it. But Wokeness is fundamentally anti-meritocracy, divisive, Marxist, and anti-American. It's poison that will guarantee further toxic leadership because the idiots in the Biden regime favor ideology over performance. Long term it will warp the Army into an institution more like the Soviet Red Army, with top down control and stifled initiative.
You started off great man, really made sense until you mentioned that vague ass term boomers found to degrade gay people. There isn’t any of this boogie man “woke” you talk about in the military bro. Gay and trans people aren’t some mysterious insider threat. It’s rich old people using us as puppets that are the issue. It’s wild how people, specifically right-wing white dudes were fine with boot licking the military war machine until they started allowing people in that represented why we are the good guys.
One other thing the UCMJ does not protect you. It was designed to manitain the good order and discipline of the force. Having a step daughter a US. Navy Hospital Corpsman and the MSA. I would never have either granddaughter join the US. military.
11 years on the O side. Your family suffers over bullshit. Your mental health is disregarded; and don't forget your spouse and children, they are not immune. It's easier to celebrate the man in uniform than to take care of him. There is also a reason the Army ads online and on TV are all of a sudden featuring young white males. Weird coincidence.
"The floggings will continue until morale improves!" 😅
As someone who spent a total of 22 years in the service (eight years Marine Corps and 14 years Army Reserve) prior to the mandate, I would recommend staying as far away from the recruiting office as possible. My command “lost” my religious accommodation request and shelved my retirement packet due to a pending GOMOR for refusing the jab. They were going to kick me out with an Other Than Honorable until I sued my command and won. Even after the mandate was rescinded, I sat in limbo until my retirement was finalized. My unit didn’t call me back to drill.
Thanks for your service to Israel
dude that sucks. what a pain in the ass that must of been.
The problem with enlistment is the leadership which is now populated by a bunch of yes men and butt kissers who do not care about the sailors only their own promotions. On recent deployment I saw active duty sailors try to dissuade other sailors from picking up command collaterals for their eval only to find out few weeks later that they themselves put in for it. There goes the honor, courage and commitment part
To get promoted you need to get 'your ticket punched'. It is all about the punch - not the people working for you.
And wonder why the military today can't preform to any standards!
Young man, I think you’re doing an excellent job on this channel. I knew very little about what a hospital corpsman was until my son enlisted. Very helpful
In other words, no one is motivated to die for oil or a politicians bs.
No .. they don't want to be fired if they don't consent to speculative jabs.. and DEI training.. and Admirals with kickstands wearing dresses. And finding out they are racist if they ever had any success in their life... None of that is motivating.
I’m an Air Force recruiter and I love your content btw. I’ve tried getting some sponsorships since I stream fitness on twitch and I got turned down. But then I saw the ANG sponsor a big streamer on twitch and felt like back stabbed. I don’t understand why the military won’t use their own talent but then cry about missing goaling.
USAF vet. Idiscouraged my son from enlisting. Too much DEI, Drag queen shows and gay pride. I would never recommend the military
@@travisadams4470 personally the only time I’ve seen DEI in recruiting is when they were trying to hire more women and minorities into the USSF. Since the demographic that’s mostly interested in space and cyber operations is generally white and male. Now they don’t care anymore. Also never seen drag shows or gay pride events on base.
Then Lujan does help the Army so they let the rules slide for her.
YOU HAVE TO PUT ON A DRESS IF YOU WANT THE NAVY TO RECOGNIZE YOU!
I got out because I didn't like the 12+ hour days and the workload in general, also didn't like getting called in on my off days & training Tuesday. Never felt like I was truly off work.
1985 to 1988 us Marine recruiters worked 6 &1/2 days a week. Sunday was take recruit to hotel to ship Monday. Saturday was work with your Poolee. Monday through Saturday was work till 8pm. Call in numbers 8pm to 9pm. 9 pm go home. Holidays like Thanksgiving was a work day. Why? Because the prospects were considered to be home so you could call them. I only remember Christmas as a day off. We hated it. And I believed we hated it so bad, the prospects could tell. Hence, recruiting numbers sucked. Recruiters NJPd for falsely enlisting kids soared.
Recruiting is going to go up and down with how life is good or bad in the civilian world.
I was a Coast Guardsman four years 1966-70 QM3. Enlisted leadership consisted of intimidation, threats of brutality, which occasionally happened. If you weren't a screamer, a big intimidating person, you were not qualified to be a senior petty officer.
Four winters North Atlantic in a small ship with abusive people who never left you alone was more than enough. I slept with a folding knife in my bunk. The war in Vietnam was a great CG recruiter.
I completely understand, I spent time in right after Reagan took over there was still some of this. I returned to the military in 99. It was a different place by then.
What killed it for me was being Wounded then dropped for years no matter how bad things were for me.
I lost everything I ever held dear in my life before they realized that I needed help. Now I m taken care of but it took several years and Trump to change that system.
Army here, the Coast Guard are the firefighters of the military. You all have our respect but I'd rather get shot at than jump in the sea.
Thank you for your service. I remember the abusive ones well, destroying every incentive possible in the CG. "Fair winds and following seas".
I retired as an E6 from the Yacht Club in 2012. We could all see the changes happening and very few of us were happy with it. They were just letting anybody with a pulse slide through boot camp. Seems like most newbies were just there for the signing bonus and the free medical. I was so sick of the Navy by the time I left, I didn't even do a ceremony. I just wanted my DD214 and the closest exit.
Yep got out in 88. Felt the same way. Even then all I wanted was the final discharge papers and to be a Freeman haven’t looked back since.
Yeah, man! Of course you hated it. I'm not going to sugarcoat the fact that being a First Class is not easy at all. You get blamed for EVERYTHING! First classes are the "whipping boys" of the Navy. You talk about underappreciated! Once you pass that 10-year mark, they know you're locked in for the long haul, and they can do whatever they want with you. I can't tell you how many senior petty officers who just could not wait until retirement. That's an age old issue. Managing personnel is never easy anywhere. And certainly not in the Navy. With all of your programs, your collateral duties, and the "First Class Mess," it's like having a corporate job without the corporate pay. I can't tell you how many times I got pulled off a job to go watch people piss for a urinalysis. It's dirty work that has to get done, and somebody has to do it. And trying to get paperwork done during working hours...Sheeeiiiitt! And then, you gotta write evals which you know the chief is going to kick back at least three times. The only way to get everything done is to come in on Saturdays. First class is a very demanding life, and if you get lucky enough to put the anchors on, guess what: You're going back to sea. No wonder the divorce rate is so high. There just went half of your retirement! With all that said, thanks for your service. It ain't easy and never was.
@@hennagaijin7856 man you nailed it but I was in the 80s and well early 80s and in the nuclear Navy and interestingly enough we really didn’t have that much paperwork. This was before women were on board so from talking to people that made things a lot easier but yeah what a ride. Glad it’s over.
Similar reasons, no ceremony, and retired in 2016.
I retired from the Navy in ‘17 and would argue that this could be reliably traced back before 2016 to the ‘10-‘12 window when the Navy was using PTS and ERB to gut the service.
They got so trigger happy that by summer 2012, a NAVADMIN dropped recalling people back to sea who were less than a year into a shore tour. Add to that the oppressive way the SeaBees were down-sized and you have a whole lotta Sailors who talk to younger family and friends, advising them against service. At least Naval service. I’m guilty of it too; after twenty years in the Navy, when my son said he wanted to join, I pointed him to the Coast Guard. They have far better advancement times because their manning isn’t structured like the USS Dumsterfire.
The USAF is probably the most liberal branch of the military. My base has a picture of male officers in short shorts and sailor hats and rolled up plaid shirts doing a “skit.” These are Majors and Captains. My old female Wing Commander used to tell extremely personal stories and cry during them. She never deployed once despite a 30 year career. She brought them up to get everyone to feel bad for her. Her and her predecessor had hour long slide shows at their retirement ceremonies on how us lowly enlisted folk should be like them. Her predecessor actually had a picture of Stalin in hers and quoted him. I would never advise anyone to join. If I didn’t have almost 20 years in I’d have been gone a long time ago.
I almost joined the AF not too long ago. During my recruitment my recruiter went from E6 to E5 and had to move to the office with the E8 in it. I felt something screwed up was happening and walked away. I have no regrets not joining and I wasn't going to be forced into taking the C-19 heart attack shot.
Stalin? No wonder we are so fucked. Commie bastards.
Oh and thanks for your service. Too bad it’s where it’s at.
Having a 30 year military career with zero deployments is crazy
Which base? I was stationed at Davis-Monthan from 01-05.
We enlisted just to find out we we're second class citezens. Why would we encourage service. _This is the mildest version of my thoughts_
We're looking for the spice, sir.
@@erikanthes954 wouldn't want my dog to get shot
He should be mad that its the leadership that are making the decision easy for us to get out
I am one of those sailors who by watching one of your videos, joined the Navy, picked a rate that i got information about from one of your videos and proudly finished A-school loving my current rate and i am now on my transfer leave waiting to set off to my first command, thank you.
We'll see how long that lasts
@@red_menace1829nah don’t do that. I’ve had some shit experiences but I’ve also had some good ones.
@ethangarcia1398 Form your own opinions, learn from your shit leaders just as much as you do from the ones you respect, and do what you need to do for yourself. It’s your experience.
- Chief.
people will say form your own experience and learn from bad leadership every day all day.....realistically we shouldn't have to learn from the bad and continue to stay in to make a "change". how about we get good leaders from the start and continue their legacy...but they won't tell you that...instead they will threaten you with NJP and BS because of online training and not selling cookies. regardless stay motivated and learn enough to set yourself apart for the future when you do decide to become a civilian again.
Hit your first command, then talk! 😂 "a" school is nothing like the fleet.
Why are you serving this garbage ass corrupt government and this tyrant of a “president” and I use that term loosely as he doesn’t belong there
Why would anyone fight for a country that treats them like garbage
I can think of only two reasons - to get GI bill for college and get some work experience to put on resume
i was discharged in '05 for pre-existing, treatable medical condition, discovered from donating blood shortly after completing basic training. had a 6 year contract for stg, meritorious promotion to e-3, 99 afqt on asvab. requested captain's mast to try to stay in but couldn't make it work. captain said he dealt with people all the time that can't act right or see the opportunity being given to them, and was a bummer to have to see somebody like me getting railroaded and shit-canned and not being able to help.
I am retired Navy, and anyone who asks me about joining the Navy I tell them to don't do it. I tell them to look at the Coast Guard or Air Force first.
I was USAF and in today's DEI, Trans show, pride month, military, I wouldn't advise any straight conservative male to enlist
Same. The USAF is probably the most liberal branch of the military. My base has a picture of male officers in short shorts and sailor hats and rolled up plaid shirts doing a “skit.” These are Majors and Captains. My old female Wing Commander used to tell extremely personal stories and cry during them. She never deployed once despite a 30 year career. She brought them up to get everyone to feel bad for her. Her and her predecessor had hour long slide shows at their retirement ceremonies on how us lowly enlisted folk should be like them. Her predecessor actually had a picture of Stalin in hers and quoted him. I would never advise anyone to join. If I didn’t have almost 20 years in I’d have been gone a long time ago.
@@earljohnson50 I retired in 2010. The military had been bad as far as treatment goes since 2000. I couldn't imagine how it is now when it sucked back then.
Officers "NEVER" cared about Enlisted, except for a few Ship Capt's.
Not true
@@andrewbranley8154 I was @ "Sea Duty" for 3.5 years.
Speak for yourself. Because you’re wrong.
Yes it is - from a former enlisted, Academy Grad and Officer.@@andrewbranley8154
Hell Doc. I'll be sitting at 12 years TIS at the end of this contract. I have 0 intentions of reenlisting. My family needs me more than the damn Navy. The Navy can replace me eventually, my family can't.
That and accountability at the big Navy level is non-existent, when all it takes is one mess up at the bottom for your career to go up in flames.
Go woke, No Blokes
Petty officer. On my ship, I saw 7th fleet kick out White men over non violent ARI's . They want # to change. Chill out on this whole affirmative action.
What is an ARI?
Its not even affirmative action stop making it about race. Its nepotism and sexism
Alcohol related incident. It could be a DUI or even going to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.@@dmacarthur5356
That’s not affirmative action. Navy and Marine personnel have caused a lot of problems in Japan, not a surprising that alcohol being involved.
@@RationalMind01 I never said ARI and affirmative action were related. But now that we're in the subject. Most blacks with ARIs have a lot more leniency. They be rude , have bad attitude, be late, not perform as good as others, be so bad at there jobs that they almost get people killed And still beat me at rank because or collaterals. Don't come at me with That's not affirmative action.
No lies were told in this video. Also if the Navy would pay off student loan debt they would attract more people. For instance if you had $60,000 of student loan debt and the Navy said "Hey for 5 Years active and one reserve year we will fully pay off your debt" people would flock
Pay off at the end of a successful enlistment contract.
@@Crustymarine exactly. Something. Money itself in the form of a bonus isn’t enough
Yes! Because your actually getting something out of it! Pro quo! If you put up with the military bs, than we will pay off all your debts, sounds good!
Back in the 70’s an enlisted sailor who had artistic talent painted a similar looking logo on his locker. In an attempt to at making a joke he lettered USN NEVER AGAIN. The officers did not see the humor and he was called in. Shortly after that he repainted his locker appropriately. He re-enlisted took his retention bonus on a VW bug. Hoot was a very smart and very cool guy..
No matter what is says on your contract or what type of training you go to after basic training, you will almost definitely being doing manual labor like cleaning dishes, washing airplanes, cutting grass, janitorial services, and any other undesirable tasks at ungodly hours.
Yup, in the Navy 4 years a good 2 of those years in school from boot camp, A school, couple of really good C schools. I was in a great rate which was in short supply for the Navy at the time. Finely to the fleet, PMC decided when I got there I needed to go to the MA force, then mess cooking, then to SP. Brilliant. Spent 13 months actually in my work field, and even then, the shop sent me to another C school! I appreciate that, but at re-up time, I said, “NO!”
Yup, in the Navy 4 years a good 2 of those years in school from boot camp, A school, couple of really good C schools. I was in a great rate which was in short supply for the Navy at the time. Finely to the fleet, PMC decided when I got there I needed to go to the MA force, then mess cooking, then to SP. Brilliant. Spent 13 months actually in my work field, and even then, the shop sent me to another C school! I appreciate that, but at re-up time, I said, “NO!”
Yup, in the Navy 4 years a good 2 of those years in school from boot camp, A school, couple of really good C schools. I was in a great rate which was in short supply for the Navy at the time. Finely to the fleet, PMC decided when I got there I needed to go to the MA force, then mess cooking, then to SP. Brilliant. Spent 13 months actually in my work field, and even then, the shop sent me to another C school! I appreciate that, but at re-up time, I said, “NO!”
Yup, in the Navy 4 years a good 2 of those years in school from boot camp, A school, couple of really good C schools. I was in a great rate which was in short supply for the Navy at the time. Finely to the fleet, PMC decided when I got there I needed to go to the MA force, then mess cooking, then to SP. Brilliant. Spent 13 months actually in my work field, and even then, the shop sent me to another C school! I appreciate that, but at re-up time, I said, “NO!”
Yup, in the Navy 4 years a good 2 of those years in school from boot camp, A school, couple of really good C schools. I was in a great rate which was in short supply for the Navy at the time. Finely to the fleet, PMC decided when I got there I needed to go to the MA force, then mess cooking, then to SP. Brilliant. Spent 13 months actually in my work field, and even then, the shop sent me to another C school! I appreciate that, but at re-up time, I said, “NO!”
As nonmilitary guy, I don't understand why the services don't let personnel stay in rank (wrong term I know). So, if you're happy as a first sergeant in logistics, why can't you just stay there if you are performing well. Still valuable. When I hear from Navy guys, you have to keep progressing or you're out. I had a colleague who made Lt. Commander and they told him that's as far you're going. I don't get it.
Why fight for a country that intentionally puts you in harms way for big corporations
Or illegal migrants?
I was a recruiter for 4 years and was good at the job. I recently applied for another recruiter tour and was denied. When I asked why, I got no response.
Are you a white, straight male?
Frontline s Buddy. You white?
Probably because the navy is terrible at keeping talent and they want you back on a sea rotation.
Missing those non sharpy sticky in arm dudes/dudettes you kicked out yet?
Go woke go broke !! Also apply's to the military!
Before I joined the navy I was watching your said videos to gain knowledge of navy life I totally agree with you on that
Sorry Admiral, the Navy got to woke.
Yeah, killing people for oil and treating innocent people across the globe like little toys we can murder for fun was okay, but once gay people started having rights. THAT turned you off, that’s wild shit buddy
The Cheese just offered $75k in cheddar... with a fucking 10 ASVAB. LOL
We should park a Navy recruitment ship off the coast of Somalia and Yemen. This can't be real life.
Alot of us were young at one point in our careers and motivated but now we see how bad it is. We were so full of life back then lol 2014-2016, kick out and a RIF made good people go
I tried to enlist in the Navy in 2021 but due to some previous health issues when I was a kid, my recruiters made virtually no effort to help me despite at first telling me that I could get waivers or cleared - they just sort of dropped me and left me hanging. I wonder what it would be like if I tried now.
One look at a previous failed enlistment and they will tell you to not let the door hit you on the way out.
Basically the same…
You dodged a bullet.
@@sullathehutt7720 I still would if they called me back. That’s the crazy thing
Same I had to go to another recruiter just to be advised on how to get a waiver for asthma
yeah I wanted to join the navy but was permanently disqualified cause of my anxiety which btw a civilian psychologist said I didn't have it anymore and cleared my to join the military but oc MEPS doesn't care...I guess they don't need people. L branch anyways.
MEPS is trash. I got permanently disqualified too for no good reason. I'm actually extremely overqualified as far as academics and athletic ability.
Between the cutbacks to Career incentives and retirement programs, I am not surprised that the Navy is not getting the numbers they need.
I was in the U. S. Navy from 1983 and 2004, 21 years. I had a 80% at-sea-rate average for my 21 years in. I don't know why new recruits are not beating down the doors to join.
QMC(SS)
USN (Ret.)
you know what it is? officers who only accept the smallest amount of risks because they’re afraid of the potential ramifications to their career *should* someone like yourself or Austin do something contrary to what they, the service deems is acceptable for recruiting or spreading a message that slightly deviates from what’s approved in a signed memo. basically anything that could put their own career at risk. cant take chances on someone with an established platform should that someone mess up in any way or else they could jeopardize that flag officers next rank, star, or opportunity to be a fellow/executive/chair/board member at pick your defense contractor or think tank
Everyone is told to hate their country. Why would you defend something with your life nonetheless, that you are taught to hate.
As a veteran and retired military, there is no way I would advise any young man especially white to join any service at this time with the current political and leadership problems at the highest levels.
Just think of how black /brown enlistees have been feeling the last 100 years BUT some reason they still joined. Yeah you good ole’ white dudes shitted all over them for decades. Court Marital, Dishonorable Discharge. Long prison sentences. Cannot access the veterans benefits. Hangings.
Almost makes you wonder who are the soft snowflakes 🤷🏿♂️??
They would have to pay me at least 1 million dollars to join.
It’s so frustrating that you did all these content to help out people in order to join in and what to expect in the Navy. Now there facing a snowball effect that was building up for these last few years that they really need you when back then they were trying to knock you down. Full respect for the real OGs of Military RUclipsrs when they started this community to bring the right people in to the service while they were going through hell with leadership with there old school way of thinking
Very interesting video. I was active duty at a recruiting district headquarters when the Navy started to make sailors retire after a certain number of years of service at a certain pay grade back in the late 90’s. I was an E-6 so I forced to retire at 20 years of service. I may have stayed on active duty if I was given the option to go back to sea duty. I was Storekeeper so my next duty station would have been on a ship anyway. When I was stationed in Navy Recruiting the Navy only reached their recruiting goal one year.
There was a time when recruiting goals were easy. That was during the days of the peace time draft. Most 18-year-olds upon graduating from high school went ahead and got it out of the way. Unfortunately, those who graduated after me were drafted and sent as imperial cannon fodder to Vietnam. We all know how that ended. Oh, and BTW, if you weren't 21 and considered an adult, you couldn't vote, sign contracts, own property, drink and smoke [lol], and a whole host of other things but you were adult enough to die for your country.
I did 24 years in Navy. Retired E7 with $1200 monthly retired take home pay. Worked 15 years at CA school district. Retired with $3241 retired pay. Can you see the retention problem?
Could it be the crossdressing yeoman as the new face of the Navy? Could it be the demonizing of the straight white man. I’m thinking BOTH!
Never heard a person not enlisting because of ‘wokeness’, I have however; heard plenty of young ppl state the disasters in Iraq/Afghanistan and their parents returning fkd up as reasons for not joining.
What are we fighting for anyways?
Nicky MGTV was a big reason why I joined. I’ve been overseas FDNF now for 3 years
Damn, I wish there would have been someone like you to help me research my problems when trying to enlist in the Army way back in 79.
We grew up watching people leave the military with serious mental and physical issues. We encourage people to join but they leave with no intention of returning. Its propaganda pumped into young vulnerable kids to keep the ranks filled.
I didn't know how important memorials would be until I knew a guy on one that we helped finance.
As an 11b that has seen theater, received a CIB, been everywhere from ft.wainwright to Kandahar.... 2010-2013.. The reason 90% of the people who i know got out was bc shotty leadershp. They were always told ,, ,this place is not the same of the rest of the army, switch duty stations and it's exactly the same
Coming up from the junior O side, I agree with you. And sadly, some of the best leaders had their hand forced into really fucking retarded decisions. There were some of us who had balls, but the woke shit started in 2009 and if the field grades wanted to make full bird or stars- it got bad, man. I tried to protect my soldiers at all cost. Glad you're still alive. Had a survivor's guilt moment today. It's normal and ok.
My grandpa and his brother served. I had an Uncle and Cousin that both served in Vietnam. I was well on my way to serving. 9/11 happened when I was 19 years old and my grandfather refused to let me enlist. He said he would use every bit of strength he had left to stop me. Now at 41 and married I truly understand where he was coming from at that time: My wife and me would NEVER let our child join the military with the United States government acting the way that it is right now. No way no how!!
I tried to join the Navy about a year after I got out the Marines this was in 16-18 was told can’t help you with the correct codes for reentry. Incredible.
Should be working on retention. Then you wouldn't need this many new recruits
The biggest ponzi scheme is retention. It actually encourages toxic fucking leaders because most of the retention options are to PCS. Why would you stay with shit leaders when you have the gamble to get to a better unit? My worthless $.02
in layman terms (unfamiliar with all the military vernacular) does that mean the navy is ambitious to hire even more seaman recruits in 2024? and do you think the sign on bonus will rise from 25K or drop? Love your content, thanks for all your hard work.
Totally agree. I would add that I think more program’s coordinated with schools to support, educate and prepare for a military career or launch pad for secondary careers
Maybe Mayor McCheesehead needs to grab a shovel (whatever the tool of choice is for the NAVY) and pitch in to assist all of those E1-E4's since he can't figure out how to get new recruits?
This is the most rational comment I've read...
Let the woke in... and everyone bails out...
"The pink hair and the pink berets should tell you everything you need to know about today's "woke" military." -- Col. M. Radcliff
Army veteran, my son just completed Navy A-School (A.I.T. for Army). You have to be an almost perfect person growing up just to get into the Navy or Air Force (background checks, etc.). Our young people are so mentally, emotionally, and physically weak that about 20% don't even make it through the training! And almost every week, the navy's treatment of my son proves to me why I told him to not join - after a life-time of telling him that all Americans had a responsibility to serve. From Biden on down, the leadership is 'woke' and incompetent.
Former Navy here. Given the treatment I received, including being passed over for assignments because of my skin color (i'm white), Female sailors given preferential treatment over me due to quotas and the intense politicking at the expense of readiness i would say avoid service. do not enlist.
Feminism caused this. You're Welcome.
you have to sweeten the benefits, pay and stop putting barriers up for people to get there degrees. oh ya fix the barracks
get rid of higher tenure and let people retire at 2nd class again
What? They don't want to spend 95% of three years confined to an environment with 0 privacy, enforced celibacy and pay that struggles to compete with a fast food worker? But you can gain so much experience that the civilian job market has no interest in whatsoever! I for one am shocked, after all this country hasn't done for these young people....ungrateful.
Sounds like the DEI policies are impacting the Navy recruiting numbers just as much if not more than the Army recruiting numbers. Nicky upset because he did not get awarded the BF recruiting ribbon for his fruit salad.😂🤣
I'm pretty sure Nicky isn't upset about a ribbon. I think his issue is more with doing videos for years that could have very well been used by recruiting command, Videos, he repeatedly, faced intense scrutiny over by leadership. Now leadership is asking people to make these same kind of Social Media content.
Being in the military is like being in a psychologically abusive relationship. Has nothing to do with ribbons, it has to do with dignity & overall treatment. Some leaders seem to enjoy keeping their subordinates in a mentally uncomfortable place.
@@cabledad65 😂🤣
After serving seven years, it was time to leave of re-enlist in the navy. The navy said if I re-enlisted they would send me to submarine duty. I said give me something else. I definitely don’t want to be stationed on a sub. The navy said that was all they could offer me so I got out went to college and got on with my life. Now sixty some years later I see where that decision to leave the navy was one of the best decisions I ever made and I am 84 years old.
Thank Goodness you got the stach back. It stands for freedom and the 70.s. Carry on be safe and keep the stach alive. NAVY you got a great asset here. Promote to O-4 with backpay. You are all going to look foolish if you dont. Just sayin
Clearly - the military needs more men in high heels and diversity training to correct this.
I can't understand why young men don't want to go fight in the middle east for the benefit of other countries - led by a President who calls them insurrectionists and radicals.
I also don't understand why people won't serve when the President and many in Congress say the US is a racist country with an evil history.
I guess we need more trans recruiters and lower standards.
If the navy can't find the recruits they need, there are only two choices, a draft or a reduced mission profile.
Great work