Hegseth doing PT
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wrote on 11 Feb 2025, 23:16 last edited by
He was asked by a reporter why he did PT with the guys, even though he had an early flight, good leadership so far.
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He was asked by a reporter why he did PT with the guys, even though he had an early flight, good leadership so far.
Link to videowrote on 11 Feb 2025, 23:27 last edited by@89th said in Hegseth doing PT:
He was asked by a reporter why he did PT with the guys, even though he had an early flight
Did he say ‘for the photo op?’
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 05:11 last edited by
Did you say "leadership"?
Looked at the enlistment numbers of late?
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:03 last edited by
No are they up?
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:09 last edited by
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:10 last edited by
How about some data?
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:34 last edited by
Data? Ok, Biden was President in December, and was President for most of January. Good job Biden!
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:40 last edited by
BTW the only data I could find is they averaged 350 recruits per day in December, and that their 2025 goal is 81,000 (222 per day). Can't find the actual data for the last 12 months though.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:51 last edited by
Just wait until the Canadian and Greenland invasions start. Most of these lads probably haven't even seen snow before.
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Data? Ok, Biden was President in December, and was President for most of January. Good job Biden!
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:53 last edited by@89th said in Hegseth doing PT:
Data? Ok, Biden was President in December, and was President for most of January. Good job Biden!
Biden didn't even know he was on the planet in December, let alone President.
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Just wait until the Canadian and Greenland invasions start. Most of these lads probably haven't even seen snow before.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:54 last edited by@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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@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.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 13:00 last edited by@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!
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 18:28 last edited by@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.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 19:27 last edited by Copper 2 Dec 2025, 19:36@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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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 19:31 last edited by
It's publicly known that they lowered their goals to meet their results.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 19:37 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Dec 2025, 19:37
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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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 20:03 last edited by
I don't suppose that Iraq and Afghanistan really served as a fantastic advertisement to people thinking about joining up.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 20:28 last edited by
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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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 21:17 last edited by
Maybe touting opportunities to be present when history is made?
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wrote on 13 Feb 2025, 02:54 last edited by
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.
