A surprising number of potential military recruits don’t want to risk their lives for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. From J.M. Phelps at theburningplatform.com:
‘If you’re a white male, you’re not really a welcome person in the Army right now’
Nearly two million dollars spent by one of the nation’s Army recruiting brigades could not overcome the alienation of potential service members caused by the military’s embrace of radical “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies under the Biden-Harris administration.
After more than two decades of service, Col. Nicholas Braun (a pseudonym) recently retired from the U.S. Army. He spoke to WorldNetDaily on the condition of anonymity, concerned over likely reprisals he would face from the U.S. government for the information he shared with WND.
In 2023, said Braun, as recruiting numbers continued to dwindle through the Biden administration, every corps in the Army was tasked to support Recruiting Command. For example, operations and maintenance funds were diverted to recruiting, he told WND, revealing that over $1 million was so redirected in just the first quarter of last year.
“Do you know how many contracts we got signed?” he asked. “One. After four months, we spent a million dollars to get one kid in the Army.”
In the following quarter, Braun said, six individuals signed contracts after $800,000 of the operations and maintenance budget was redirected toward recruiting. “We used nearly $1.8 million to get seven people in the Army,” he told WND.
Yet, throwing money at recruiting did not solve the problem. Plans to “shrink excess” and reduce its number of personnel from 494,000 to 470,000 by 2029 followed. “In the Pentagon’s infinite wisdom to fix the recruiting problem,” Braun said, in February 2024, “they began another round of restructuring to make the on-hand quantity [of Army personnel] the authorized quantity to be able to say t
There’s a JD (Thiel) Vance for that?
To get those rubes in flyover land back on the we’re all patriots plantation?
See, the faculty lounge isn’t all that smart.
Those with Airborne Ranger and WWII USMC fathers and grandfathers were warned years ago not to sign up for AINO/FUSA voluntarily.
Replacements will laugh at conquest take on Eurasia schemes and some are all in for Palestine.
Others are poseurs hijacking the momentum for the Long March as ordered by Karl.
External enemies don’t have time for Sofa King We Todd Did bong load delusions and will wipe the floor with Derelicts Ever Incompetent?
Good, good.
Breaking from Jerry Reed:
We’ve Called It Everything Else