An amazing 71% of possible U.S. Army Reserve candidates would be rejected today due to obesity, prescription drug addictions or for other reasons, such as excess tattoos.
Captain Eric Connor, a U.S. Army Reserve Command spokesman recently stated that the majority of applications now fail to meet the recruiting standards due to “mental, moral and physical reasons.” Some on the Left, who are generally not big fans of the military, have seen military service as a social experiment program that offers employment to the least prepared and qualified.
They have forced acceptance of openly gay troops on the military, demanded combat roles and lower physical requirements for women, and are now pushing for integration of transsexual members into the service.
They have forgotten, however, that the purpose of the military is not a jobs program for the least capable, but to protect this nation and to be prepared to enter combat at a moment’s notice. That means that those who join the service must meet standards and requirements that today’s youth are not used to and have not experienced in the lax environment of today’s schools and social scene.
The liberal agenda has been to remove all standards and expectations from America, and while a fast food restaurant or a retail establishment must accept virtually anyone because diversity and acceptance are the highest values of progressives, the military insists that standards must be met, and the coddled youth of today are not measuring up.
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They don’t want to lose their food stamps and disability checks. Then they could not afford to get their drugs and tatoos!
Terrible.
do not forget about the drugs some of them take from pot to coke.
They don’t have to they’ll get a trophy anyway!!!!
Don’t they have some sort of programs to whip these maggots into shape.
You had me until the ‘drug testing’ part.
There is no excuse for the intrusion of the government in the personal lives of the public. What substances one chooses to consume in the privacy of their own home is no business of the government.
I’m part of that 71% and that’s just because I lost the medical lottery and got Type 1 Diabetes, then anxiety and depression. It was my dream to join the military when I was a boy, though. Now I can’t and probably never will.
I went in the Marine Corps in late sixties they have a thing back then called the fat body platoon. And they did lose weight
Just push the button and let what happens happens
Question to all the anti pot people why? I bet you DRINK ALCOHOL or take some form of PAIN MEDICATION… out of the 3 only one has a ZERO rate for dying from using it…. do you know what one? Hint it’s ILLEGAL. While the other two kill thousands yearly.