I have been around for a while now: long enough to know that ever generation of service people says the same thing: the military has been ruined, back in my day…
Meanwhile, enlistment from probably the most tattooed generation ever was being complicated by those same tattoos.
Well now you are just trying to change the subject.
I am not offering any opinion on whether or not they were a good idea, merely noting that recruiting from the most tattooed generation ever is obviously going to be hard if you are excluding for tattoos
Not around soldiers. “Service people” 
For a reason.
I’m with you a 100%. I would not even consider serving today if I were graduating high school and that goes for my son.
Okay, sure
Which goes on to help explain problems with recruiting.
Believe what you want.
With unemployment below 4%, sustained decades long conflicts, and labor shortages nationwide… of course recruitment is down.
This is a trend that has been going on for the past decade, it didn’t just happen now. Furthermore, did you not read either link I posted?
But qualified to serve doesn’t equal desire to serve, and desire—or “propensity,” as the military calls it—is also declining. The latest DOD polling data for youth ages 16-21 reflects that when they are asked, “How likely is it you will serve in the military?”, an average of only 11% respond “definitely or probably” and that trend is declining.
The key sentence is the very last one, “and that trend is declining.”
But of course, all of that has nothing to do with it, which we’d understand if we served.
No, the real villian here is simply an extension of social grievance; wokeism, trangenders, and of course the gays. 
If this thread goes much longer, you just know gripes about women serving will make their debut
Yes… as I stated, a couple of decades of sustained foreign conflict will affect the desire to join the military.
There are a lot of people of recruitment age who have known nothing but the US blowing the ■■■■ out of Iraq and Afghanistan. When one grows up with that and has seen the results that it has had of draining this country… you get less people signing up in support of that.
The recruitment advertising has moved from " Be all that you can be" to " Hey… it’s a job"
And people are mad.
If you had served, you would know that conflicts increase recruiting of good soldier material.
Honesty in advertising.
Sure. But for some reason, you seem determined to ignore or downplay other reasons for recruitment being down.
Historically you are right but the possibility of going to war under the command of Joe Biden is enough to make anyone think twice. It is entirely possible for American Soldiers to be killed with American weapons that Biden left for the Taliban.
Not at all. Good soldier material doesn’t care for wokeism and the lies.
The US military has lost its focus in the noise of equity social engineering.
Hopefully, it will never have to fight again. With the exception of a few units of course.
Winning a war.
This same video comparing recruitment methods is out there that also includes the Chinese Military. It is even more scarry.
While our enemies are learning to fight, we are teaching our soldiers about the proper use of pronouns.
Let’s just make this simple and all of us admit, fewer Americans are “serving” anything except themselves. We the people has evolved into me the people and what’s happening in the military is one spotlighted example.
Ignoring reasons is bread and butter here.
