namedpipes
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According to headline/story in this week's Epoch Times. The story is behind a paywall but here's a similar story from Military Times. We're f***ed as a country.
"A new study from the Pentagon shows that 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems."
A slide detailing the findings from the Pentagon's 2020 Qualified Military Available Study shared with Military.com shows a 6% increase from the latest 2017 Department of Defense research that showed 71% of Americans would be ineligible for service.
"When considering youth disqualified for one reason alone, the most prevalent disqualification rates are overweight (11%), drug and alcohol abuse (8%), and medical/physical health (7%)," the study, which examined Americans between the ages of 17 and 24, read. The study was conducted by the Pentagon's office of personnel and readiness.
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Mental health accounted for 4% of disqualifications, while aptitude, conduct or being a dependent accounted for 1% each. Most youth, 44%, were disqualified for multiple reasons.
Even More Young Americans Are Unfit to Serve, a New Study Finds. Here's Why.
The updated figures paint a picture of what is currently plaguing military recruiters in many of the service branches, with a shrinking pool of potential service members available to them.www.military.com
This is SO easy to solve.
Mandatory Military Service. Boot camp would be a series of camps and the more impaired would spend more time in camps oriented for fitness, for mental health as needed, of course a camp for those in transition, and the final session is "regular" boot camp.
Whatever your personal challenges are, you're routed through the appropriate resources until you ARE fit to serve!
Then 2 - 4 years service beyond that point and you're on your own.
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We'll wipe up the floor with them democrats!