Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service (2014)

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20 points·hubraumhugo··17 comments

“ 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…

Because there is no draft in the USA

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.

The above article was written in 2014, just FYI.

The current soldier of the year speaks Mandarin.

This made me chuckle

Kids are playing video games instead of doing sports.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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