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Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service

Author: hubraumhugo

Score: 20

Comments: 16

Date: 2021-12-03 05:57:48

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thuccess129 wrote at 2021-12-03 09:31:40:

The current soldier of the year speaks Mandarin.

baybal2 wrote at 2021-12-03 09:47:36:

This made me chuckle

disabled wrote at 2021-12-03 06:34:06:

The above article was written in 2014, just FYI.

spoonjim wrote at 2021-12-03 09:17:58:

“ The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly”

Huh, I wonder why high quality youth aren’t more eager to fly across the world and kill 8-year-olds for the honor of the uniform…

baybal2 wrote at 2021-12-03 09:29:31:

Because there is no draft in the USA

voakbasda wrote at 2021-12-03 14:49:24:

I have some bad news: a draft would not magically make people eager to become soldiers or willing to go to war. In the US, I expect it would have quite the opposite effect.

bitwize wrote at 2021-12-03 06:58:46:

Kids are playing video games instead of doing sports.

morjom wrote at 2021-12-03 07:11:56:

Quick gratification and its ease of access, depression epidemic, news 24/7. I can see why many like to escape into a video game.

bastawhiz wrote at 2021-12-03 12:33:15:

It seems that this is not a problem or the US military wouldn't spend so much sponsoring the creation of games and sponsoring eSports.

hulitu wrote at 2021-12-03 07:37:35:

I heard the US has a base in Ramstein where they play video games. I don't see why these people would not qualify.

baybal2 wrote at 2021-12-03 09:31:19:

Seeing waistlines of most US servicemen, I think they don't play much anything other than computer games

https://www.military.com/military-fitness/weight-loss/troops...

bitwize wrote at 2021-12-03 18:44:01:

There was a spec-ops guy on Joe Rogan who said that it's nearly impossible to find good spec-ops candidates, because kids don't play enough sports and they're out of shape.

cable2600 wrote at 2021-12-03 06:06:32:

Being overweight or mentally ill is cause for disqualification. All the kiddies with autism can't go.

wyrm wrote at 2021-12-03 06:56:07:

The US military is currently accepting recruits with autism, as long as it doesn't interfere with duty or training. Or something like that.

Frankly, mild autism is an _asset_ in the military. It's an environment where the rules don't have to make any sense; they just have to be followed.

hulitu wrote at 2021-12-03 07:38:47:

There are a lotvof mentally ill people in the military.

krageon wrote at 2021-12-03 10:55:26:

Seeing autism as a mental illness I suppose is a perspective that is more widely shared and debatable, but what does being overweight have to do with anything?

jchallis wrote at 2021-12-03 14:56:29:

Developmental disability != mental illness