Shortfalls in some of the military services' recruiting goals for fiscal year 2023 demonstrate the challenges that lie ahead for the all-volunteer force, the Defense Department's acting undersecretary
This isn't ideology, I think, so much as Zoomers just being practical. Like, they've seen what happened to the millennials who signed up to fight in Iraq. Every last one of them was extremely fucked up by the experience, and then they came home to a VA that is completely fucking worthless. Very high rates of suicide and domestic problems. Then there's all the problems with black mold and cockroaches you see at the barracks and stuff, shit like National Guard soldiers activated during the January 6 incident getting food poisoning while guarding the people who make the laws.
Like, who the fuck would look at that and think "sign me up"?
I think the number is likely a result of unsustainable military bloat also capitalist contradiction of not having enough people who are educated and healthy to fund your war machine
This isn't ideology, I think, so much as Zoomers just being practical. Like, they've seen what happened to the millennials who signed up to fight in Iraq. Every last one of them was extremely fucked up by the experience, and then they came home to a VA that is completely fucking worthless. Very high rates of suicide and domestic problems. Then there's all the problems with black mold and cockroaches you see at the barracks and stuff, shit like National Guard soldiers activated during the January 6 incident getting food poisoning while guarding the people who make the laws.
Like, who the fuck would look at that and think "sign me up"?
I think the number is likely a result of unsustainable military bloat also capitalist contradiction of not having enough people who are educated and healthy to fund your war machine
Black mold futures.