November 13, 2017
Army Strong or Batshit Crazy?
Timothy Birdnow
The Army plans on meeting their recruitment quotas by mining mental institutions.
From the Independent Sentinel:
"People with a history of "self-mutilation,†bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse can now seek waivers to join the Army under a new policy. We’re going to give people with a history of mental illnesses guns and grenades, machetes but we keep hearing we shouldn’t allow people with mental problems have guns.
The Army needs 80,000 new soldiers by September 2018. Last year, they took in 69,000, loosening up the restrictions on poor scores on aptitude tests, gave waivers for pot smokers, and offered hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses."
End excerpt.
The author mentions meny of teh problems with this, such as suicide risks and rapes of foreign women, but misses one of the key points; these people will cost the U.S. taxpayers huge sums of money in medical care. It's a free mental health plan should they get in.
The author also blames a good economy for a lack of recruits, but is this so? Is it not, perhaps, equally the fault of the political correctness that has infected the military, from the abolition of "don't ask don't tell" making gay sex an oopen and protected thing to the transgenderising (well, Trump at least ended THAT). Feminism plays a large part, too, where women are given lesser standards than men. Oh, and if you go to war the rules of engagement mean you often lose your life frivolously because you aren't allowed to fight back. Fighting in the military was a way of channeling a restless and combative spirit. Now it is worse than useless for this as the person so encumbered is put into battle and not allowed to fight.
It's a wonder we can get anyone to join.
So we are going to remedy that by recruiting the insane. Gee, that's a winning strategy!
The Army plans on meeting their recruitment quotas by mining mental institutions.
From the Independent Sentinel:
"People with a history of "self-mutilation,†bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse can now seek waivers to join the Army under a new policy. We’re going to give people with a history of mental illnesses guns and grenades, machetes but we keep hearing we shouldn’t allow people with mental problems have guns.
The Army needs 80,000 new soldiers by September 2018. Last year, they took in 69,000, loosening up the restrictions on poor scores on aptitude tests, gave waivers for pot smokers, and offered hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses."
End excerpt.
The author mentions meny of teh problems with this, such as suicide risks and rapes of foreign women, but misses one of the key points; these people will cost the U.S. taxpayers huge sums of money in medical care. It's a free mental health plan should they get in.
The author also blames a good economy for a lack of recruits, but is this so? Is it not, perhaps, equally the fault of the political correctness that has infected the military, from the abolition of "don't ask don't tell" making gay sex an oopen and protected thing to the transgenderising (well, Trump at least ended THAT). Feminism plays a large part, too, where women are given lesser standards than men. Oh, and if you go to war the rules of engagement mean you often lose your life frivolously because you aren't allowed to fight back. Fighting in the military was a way of channeling a restless and combative spirit. Now it is worse than useless for this as the person so encumbered is put into battle and not allowed to fight.
It's a wonder we can get anyone to join.
So we are going to remedy that by recruiting the insane. Gee, that's a winning strategy!
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