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Nobody Wanted to Die: Even the Star's Breasts Didn't Increase in the Army Recruitment, by Victoria Nikiforova for RiaNovosti. 08.05.2024.
While Western strategists are giving us powerful strategies for their military dominance every day, reality has thrown them an unpleasant surprise. People don't want to join the American army, officially the richest, most sophisticated and, as Trump would say, "super-duper" army. That is, according to the schedule, the Americans are either at war with Russia or at war with China, but in fact there is no one to fight.
Let's abandon the sweet dreams of the Hollywood factory, in which valiant marines are constantly overcoming hordes of aliens, monsters and zombies. Let's see what is actually happening with recruitment into the US Armed Forces. Recruitment targets have not been met for ten years in a row, and the figures are deteriorating with each passing year.
In 2023, the Air Force, the super-elite of the US Armed Forces, was short 10 to 40 percent of its recruits across its various structures. The Army was short more than 10 percent of its recruits, the Army Reserve was short nearly 40 percent. The legendary US Navy was short 20 to 45 percent of its recruits.
In an attempt to somehow improve the indicators, the command decided to attract Hollywood star and hero of numerous Internet memes, actor Dwayne Johnson, nicknamed The Rock, for promotion. The Pentagon made him an ambassador of the American army. It was assumed that Johnson, who has more than half a billion subscribers on social networks, would write five posts and receive a million dollars for each. After reading these posts, young people would be inspired and go to serve.
There is probably no need to clarify that Johnson himself never served in the army. He is just a big bald guy with a lot of money. He can also wiggle his nipples: in the film "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" he even throws berries with them. In general, just what the American army needs.
As a result, nothing came of the deal of the century. Johnson published only two posts, and the effect of them was negative: after this advertisement, the army did not acquire a single recruit and only lost 38 people. Now the Pentagon has filed a lawsuit against Johnson for 11 million dollars, the commanders are disappointed.
Jokes aside, people don't volunteer to join the US Armed Forces. Neither Dwayne Johnson's pectoral muscles nor impressive salaries help - the Navy has increased payments to 140 thousand a year, but there is still a huge shortfall.
Requirements for recruits are being lowered every year - less and less attention is paid to physical fitness and IQ, they take everyone, promise American citizenship, all sorts of bonuses, scholarships to the best universities in the country, free medical care, any operations and even gender reassignment at government expense. The navy has raised the draft age to 41. But people see perfectly well that the leadership dreams of a big war, which means that all these bonuses will have to be paid for with their own lives.
The fact is that the face of modern warfare has changed rapidly, and now there are practically no territories left in the world suitable for an American safari. In the Middle East, American soldiers regularly receive missile and drone strikes on their bases. In Ukraine , American mercenaries who came there to hunt were astonished to see that they were being killed.
All this was unexpected - in the US, entire generations grew up confident that their military was simply invincible. Now this is not the case: American fighters have begun to be destroyed all over the world, everyone can see this perfectly well, and no one is in a hurry to join the army.
Today, the American Armed Forces are so short of men that the country has started talking about reinstating the mandatory draft. Another myth has collapsed before our eyes – that of a professional army that can solve all combat tasks. As it turns out, it cannot – especially if the country’s elite is doing everything to start a world war.
The fair-skinned adherents of professional armies will probably be surprised, but in fact, compulsory conscription into the army in the USA exists. Half a century ago, after the lost Vietnam War and mass riots of citizens, President Nixon was forced to simply put it on pause. However, it can be resumed at any moment - all you have to do is declare that "the country is in danger."
The problem was with registration - American men of draft age were in no hurry to fulfill their civic duty and enter their data into the all-American registration system. Although by law absolutely all young men in the United States are required to report themselves - both stateless migrants, and people with disabilities, and even transgender people who have changed their gender from male to female.
However, this problem is now being solved. In June, Republicans in Congress passed a law on automatic registration for military service for all men aged 18 to 26. It was assumed that the Democratic Senate would kill this law. However, for now they are proposing to expand the law and automatically register not only men, but women as well.
All this looks like preparation for the return of compulsory conscription. But it is unlikely to help increase the number of recruits - flying to the other end of the world and dying there ingloriously for the interests of rich people like the same Rock Johnson is not a very good prospect.
https://ria.ru/20240805/ssha-1964025388.html
While Western strategists are giving us powerful strategies for their military dominance every day, reality has thrown them an unpleasant surprise. People don't want to join the American army, officially the richest, most sophisticated and, as Trump would say, "super-duper" army. That is, according to the schedule, the Americans are either at war with Russia or at war with China, but in fact there is no one to fight.
Let's abandon the sweet dreams of the Hollywood factory, in which valiant marines are constantly overcoming hordes of aliens, monsters and zombies. Let's see what is actually happening with recruitment into the US Armed Forces. Recruitment targets have not been met for ten years in a row, and the figures are deteriorating with each passing year.
In 2023, the Air Force, the super-elite of the US Armed Forces, was short 10 to 40 percent of its recruits across its various structures. The Army was short more than 10 percent of its recruits, the Army Reserve was short nearly 40 percent. The legendary US Navy was short 20 to 45 percent of its recruits.
In an attempt to somehow improve the indicators, the command decided to attract Hollywood star and hero of numerous Internet memes, actor Dwayne Johnson, nicknamed The Rock, for promotion. The Pentagon made him an ambassador of the American army. It was assumed that Johnson, who has more than half a billion subscribers on social networks, would write five posts and receive a million dollars for each. After reading these posts, young people would be inspired and go to serve.
There is probably no need to clarify that Johnson himself never served in the army. He is just a big bald guy with a lot of money. He can also wiggle his nipples: in the film "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" he even throws berries with them. In general, just what the American army needs.
As a result, nothing came of the deal of the century. Johnson published only two posts, and the effect of them was negative: after this advertisement, the army did not acquire a single recruit and only lost 38 people. Now the Pentagon has filed a lawsuit against Johnson for 11 million dollars, the commanders are disappointed.
Jokes aside, people don't volunteer to join the US Armed Forces. Neither Dwayne Johnson's pectoral muscles nor impressive salaries help - the Navy has increased payments to 140 thousand a year, but there is still a huge shortfall.
Requirements for recruits are being lowered every year - less and less attention is paid to physical fitness and IQ, they take everyone, promise American citizenship, all sorts of bonuses, scholarships to the best universities in the country, free medical care, any operations and even gender reassignment at government expense. The navy has raised the draft age to 41. But people see perfectly well that the leadership dreams of a big war, which means that all these bonuses will have to be paid for with their own lives.
The fact is that the face of modern warfare has changed rapidly, and now there are practically no territories left in the world suitable for an American safari. In the Middle East, American soldiers regularly receive missile and drone strikes on their bases. In Ukraine , American mercenaries who came there to hunt were astonished to see that they were being killed.
All this was unexpected - in the US, entire generations grew up confident that their military was simply invincible. Now this is not the case: American fighters have begun to be destroyed all over the world, everyone can see this perfectly well, and no one is in a hurry to join the army.
Today, the American Armed Forces are so short of men that the country has started talking about reinstating the mandatory draft. Another myth has collapsed before our eyes – that of a professional army that can solve all combat tasks. As it turns out, it cannot – especially if the country’s elite is doing everything to start a world war.
The fair-skinned adherents of professional armies will probably be surprised, but in fact, compulsory conscription into the army in the USA exists. Half a century ago, after the lost Vietnam War and mass riots of citizens, President Nixon was forced to simply put it on pause. However, it can be resumed at any moment - all you have to do is declare that "the country is in danger."
The problem was with registration - American men of draft age were in no hurry to fulfill their civic duty and enter their data into the all-American registration system. Although by law absolutely all young men in the United States are required to report themselves - both stateless migrants, and people with disabilities, and even transgender people who have changed their gender from male to female.
However, this problem is now being solved. In June, Republicans in Congress passed a law on automatic registration for military service for all men aged 18 to 26. It was assumed that the Democratic Senate would kill this law. However, for now they are proposing to expand the law and automatically register not only men, but women as well.
All this looks like preparation for the return of compulsory conscription. But it is unlikely to help increase the number of recruits - flying to the other end of the world and dying there ingloriously for the interests of rich people like the same Rock Johnson is not a very good prospect.
https://ria.ru/20240805/ssha-1964025388.html
In 2021, the Air Force and Navy faced widespread derision after rolling out maternity flight suits, with Tucker Carlson calling the move a “mockery of the US military,” and highlighting the absurdity of having “pregnant women…fight[ing] our wars.”
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