Hegseth doing PT
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Hegseth doing PT:
Just wait until the Canadian and Greenland invasions start. Most of these lads probably haven't even seen snow before.
Nah, we'll do it only July 4th. Should take about a week.
@Jolly said in Hegseth doing PT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hegseth doing PT:
Just wait until the Canadian and Greenland invasions start. Most of these lads probably haven't even seen snow before.
Nah, we'll do it only July 4th. Should take about a week.
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Data? Ok, Biden was President in December, and was President for most of January. Good job Biden!
@89th said in Hegseth doing PT:
Data? Ok, Biden was President in December, and was President for most of January. Good job Biden!
For total fiscal year 2024, they were above their target.
50% of recruits come from the following states:
Texas (13.3%)
California (10.5%)
Florida (9.7%)
Georgia (5.1%)
North Carolina (4.6%)
New York (4.3%)
Virginia (2.9%)
Ohio (2.8%)
Illinois (2.6%)
Pennsylvania (2.4%)https://recruiting.army.mil/pao/facts_figures/
Recruits have been dropping for a long time. Every year under President Clinton was higher than any year under President Trump, Same for George Bush, and same for the first four years of President Obama.
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@89th said in Hegseth doing PT:
Data? Ok, Biden was President in December, and was President for most of January. Good job Biden!
For total fiscal year 2024, they were above their target.
50% of recruits come from the following states:
Texas (13.3%)
California (10.5%)
Florida (9.7%)
Georgia (5.1%)
North Carolina (4.6%)
New York (4.3%)
Virginia (2.9%)
Ohio (2.8%)
Illinois (2.6%)
Pennsylvania (2.4%)https://recruiting.army.mil/pao/facts_figures/
Recruits have been dropping for a long time. Every year under President Clinton was higher than any year under President Trump, Same for George Bush, and same for the first four years of President Obama.
@taiwan_girl said in Hegseth doing PT:
For total fiscal year 2024, they were above their target.
There are needs.
Then there are goals.
Recruitment goals are based more on expectation than need.
Just because the recruitment goal is met, doesn't mean that the recruitment need is met.
If you can't meet the goal, lower the goal. (It's like the E in DEI).
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We worked with some MDs at the pentagon on a concept of testing new active duty soldiers for my (and other) respiratory conditions in order to prevent assignments with high exposure to lung damaging substances, fires, etc
They thought it was a great idea and agreed it would save lives and save the VA money. But they said it’s hard to get any new thing approved at that branch of the DoD that doesn’t explicitly have a goal of increasing recruiting.
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I don't suppose that Iraq and Afghanistan really served as a fantastic advertisement to people thinking about joining up.
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Speaking of recruiting, did everybody see the Secret Service recruiting ad during the Super Bowl?
https://www.kbtx.com/video/2025/02/09/secret-service-recruiting-ad-directed-by-michael-bay-air-during-super-bowl/I thought it was weird that they highlighted Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, and Trump. I mean, Lincoln’s assasination predated the Service, but each of them was actually shot due to a failure of their respective protective details… that’s kind of like showing the Afghanistan withdrawal in a military recruitment campaign…
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I missed seeing that ad. There are some jobs, IMO, that almost require you to be a bachelor (i.e., not have a wife/kids/responsibilities) such as the secret service.
My buddy is on the protective detail for SCOTUS (e.g., drives the justices to dinner, sits next to them at football games, etc) and I know directly the strain it puts on his marriage (no kids) since his schedule changes constantly and he's often not home for 2 or 3 weeks per month.
