U.S. enters 2024 with its smallest military in over 80 years as active-duty troop numbers sink to le

COURAGE AND DRIVE!!! (Class of) '75!!!

 

I guess you keep forgetting that not only are a hell of a lot of us veterans, we are retired veterans.

I just recently retired myself after decades in the military. And I could go back in... for about 10 months. Then I hit 60 which is the mandatory retirement age.

I myself was planning to remain in until forced out. But the last several years was more than enough for me. We are at close to a decade and a half of troop cuts, forced drawdowns, and sitting with our thumbs up our arses due to lack of funding, lack of direction, and more nonsense being foisted upon us every year. And driving over 6 hours each way just to sit on my butt attending endless lectures for 2 days each month was simply more than I could take.

 

When they started pee test I got the hell out, went into industrial work when they started I became self employed until they stopped. Now we be kewl.

 

So are a druggie?

 

Obviously, and thinks more about his drugs than anything else. Including safety, obviously.

 

Really? M-1s cannot load their own cannons

 

You honestly think we don't have the tech to put together a self-loading, remotely driven tank?


Really?

 

It, it could be possible to do so, but why? You can only remotely fire one for a single round.

You seem to be confusing US tanks with those made in the USSR-Russia. The US has never adopted the autoloader, other than as far as I am aware a single self-propelled howitzer that was never adopted. The US simply does not use autoloaders, and requires an actual human to load in the next shell.

So a remotely operated M1 tank is absolutely worthless. They could fire a single shot, then that would be it.

 

That is not what you said. You can not do that with an M1 Abrams.

And no, the US has no interest in doing such, for many reasons.

 

The Navy is handling the recruiting shortage by the usual methods...

No Diploma? No problem! Navy Again Lowers Requirements as it Struggles to Meet Recruitment Goals

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn't graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.

The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards.

Under the new plan, Navy recruits without an education credential will be able to join as long as they score 50 or above on the qualification test, which is out of 99. The last time the service took individuals without education credentials was in 2000.

 

This guy has really good videos. In this one he talks about how the Marines are reforming their units to be more effective.