The U.S. military in the middle of a massive recruiting drought. Retired Col. Jack Jacobs, a Medal of Honor recipient and an NBC News military analyst, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss.
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They need to figure something out because our shops/mos manning is so bad right now.
Can foreigners join? We want to become US army.
They should let immigrants join and give them citizenship
It would be their duty to die for their new country whilst enjoying the freedom to live here
That gap would decrease drastically
Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam, all political wars, WW2 was the last time we faught a necessary war. That’s why people don’t want to join the military
Lol the way they treat veterans is enough of a ‘no’ for me
Some of the worst years or my life in the military.
Tried to join, was turned down over their tattoo policy for hands. No gang affiliation or profanity on them at all. I guess they don’t like us expressing ourselves.
Ridiculous.
Increase the age. I’m just barely beyond the cutoff, and if they raised the age limit and the elderly person I care for didn’t need me, I’d ship off to Bragg right now.
It is because of our modern culture were everyone wants be rich and famous. A deployed man deserves as much respect as a doctor. They are in essence doing the same. Making sure you can continue the life you know.
Try forgiving their student loan? U will get more soldiers.
You people are letting make take estrogen and call themselves women, obviously your going to have trouble recruiting
Get rid of this woke N wokecrap N watch
Part of the reason I chose to leave was because I grew tired of the good ol boys. I went to 3 different commands and it was more of the same
This country is literally fake why would anybody fight for a pos government like the US. They literally hate us all and have been failing us since Lincoln left 😢
Didn’t it begin in California with Emma’s two moms.???
“War is a racket” – Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler.
Politicians use you to fight the wars they create, make the politicians go risk their lives
It’s simple.. Instead of focusing on accumulating more, focus on the already accumulated. We all see the vets that are suicidal, being treated like crap from the government they served for. Our generation doesn’t feel like sacraficing 20 years of their life to a military that doesn’t look out for their own worth it. No amount of free education or retirement pension can buy mental health and happiness. The problem isn’t stronger leadership, the problem is the government doesn’t want to spend money where it’s needed only where it benefits them. Have you seen the suicidal rate for a us vet? It’s ridiculously high. You can name another career with a suicide rate as high. We Live in 2023 where theirs a million ways to make a million dollars on something as simple as a smartphone where we live how we want without half the risks/sacrifices of joining the military. I do agree that we as citizens should fight to keep this country as free as it is but it’s the people that give that service to this country that get the short end of the stick and I’m simply not going to volunteer for the short end of the stick just to feel like I threw my life away and live With regrets of joining
ofcourse. gays, trans, tik tokers, etc are getting bigger now
This guy didnt once mention anything about improving the quality of life of active enlistees and improving the benefits gained by serving. Young people are conscious of the traumas veterans have endured during their years in the service and it accompanied by the time commitment are reasons people do not join.
There needs to be more significant incentives to join.
Look at how they treat veterans and people who serve and return with no respect. I don’t blame them.
You want me to die for this country? You’re kidding me right? The political leaders and the average citizens don’t even support their troops. Older people look down on me based on what they think of my generation and assume that I have no work ethic. As a gen z. Why on earth would I want to serve this dying country you older adults ran into the ground?
Edit: Also if I get injured I get to get shafted by our healthcare system so that’s a huge plus too 🙂
This was the worst guy too have speak about this.. funny his he didn’t speak about how badly veterans are treated here.
Bro…I just said the same thing. That guy is horrible. He thinks it’s 1943.
Maybe it’s time to add more civilian support role positions that accommodate post high school graduates. A program like this could help them get job experience and, if they want, a pathway for military service.
Nobody wants to join a soft pronoun sissy force to go die for billionaire liars.
So the son of No 1 money printing Superpower don’t want to die to defense Woke corperate, BLM, Trans Values, Feminists interest, anti toxic masculinity, Genderless children, Zelensky, LGBT issue ?
How dare you not to die for those WESTERN VALUES.
I join to re enlist the next year. That code 3….
😂🤣😂😂🤣
We’re raising woke unless generations. Ever heard of a woke army. Me neither.
Their standards are also ridiculous
No it takes the government keeping there promises and if not then oh well I’d rather fight em on our grounds then theirs
We still need our military.What’s the solution?
I’m not sure if this is still a viable option anymore. The military has changed alot over time
Maybe instead of giving 50k bonuses to high schoolers to enlist that’ll still get out in 5 years, make incentives for the experienced that feel like we have no reason to stay.
Time to deploy the AI combat robots I guess
😂😂😂 That guy has no solutions. Thinks people should just “serve” cause Merica. 😂😂😂
I deployed twice with the Marines. Looking back I think democrats did 9/11 and released covid.
I don’t trust my greedy government at all.
Wow. Not a word about the low moral due to the politicization of the military, especially recruitment.
No mention of the abuse of the military in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. Yes, there are now other career choices, but the fact is the military was able to compete even with more lucrative choices because it used to have a patriotic and moral component. That is why men rallied after Perl Harbor and not 911. Why get yourself killed for just a low paying military job.
The military abandoned me, gf left me after 10 yrs, The struggles of finding a job for vets, Going thru the VA process if a fooking pain. Im tired of being taken advantaged of. Know your worth!
Speaking Candidly, Nobody wants to join a woke environment. Who the heck wants to go to risk their life and simultaneously be forced to support stuff outside of their belief systems like Trans and CRT and being told they are racist just because they’re white. Or that their own religious beliefs don’t matter? The US military literally separated itself from it’s biggest recruitment base. THIS is a very out of touch reasoning for people not joining.
Who gonna serve tho? The men who think or act like women? Or the women who dress like men? This generation focusing on other things
Come on guys, everyone join that way when the politicians start another war, your service and death will help fund there investment portfolios
I served in the Army in the late 60s, when we still had the draft, and from my experience then, reinforced with what I have seen since, I would not advise anybody to serve in the US military, unless they have absolutely no options in life. I have seen too many good people who were destroyed by a system that cares so little for human beings and has just become a tool for a corrupt and incompetent political elite.
This is not a free country I pay to live here every time I buy something and every time I get paid…..
Nobody wants a woke work environment that’s why
Stop using working class as fodder for oil imperialism. The military hasn’t been needed to protect the country in over half a century.
The biggest threat to Americans today are domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, and lone gunmen.
As a Navy veteran, I say don’t do it, because you get treated like crap and you have nothing to show for it afterwards
Why would I want my child to serve in a racist European terrorist lgbt supporting military that pays McDonald’s wages while yt people and their their kids live rich and selfish. You wouldn’t hire us a livable house buying wage but you want us to risk our lives. Foh
i tried to join the military when i was 28 but had a motorcycle accident and now i’m physically unable to join
Yes, support the troops. They risk their lives to … Well, protect the USA, and or protect its corporate interests, protect oil and other natural resources (in foreign nations), make a mess of other countries. A ‘victory in Iraq’ (yes, use it as a saying) now starts to mean winning in a way that makes a bigger mess of everything, like you win the argument in a relationship, but it results in a messy divorce. Meanwhile these military service members often come back wounded, having real mental issues or PTSD. And they chose to serve out of patriotism or, lets be real, poverty, to come back and return to poverty too often incapable of making money because of those wounds. Who get rich are the corporate giants. Who get rich are the industrial military complex. By robbing veterans of money, dignity, health and hardly giving back they show what most people should think, harder, deeper about: is the US military being used by corporate robbers? Honor the troops, but question: who uses them for what? Because being used by the kind of people you ought to defend your country against is weird. They may wear ties, sound sophisticated, have huge mansions, get photographed in glossy magazines, open a hospital wing with their name on it (to avoid paying taxes), but the truth is, they rob the people and the people give them their taxes and their soldiers. So yes, support the troops, but question more for whom to get what?
This is yt people country. I come from tribes that originated here. So this your country not mines. I’m just a ni66er. Remember?
Underage kids not seeing themselves narcicisstically fit for being a professional murderer sounds not that bad to me. Remember your foreign minister saying killing 500 000 children in Iraq was “worth it”?
Maybe don’t pay so much for Arms supply and use those funds to take care of our soldiers.
The entire military has become a social experiment, glad im out.
well maybe just maybe let people in with a ged or some one who want be be apart of the military with out all these dumb as requirements people would join duhhhh😂
All should quit military and stop fighting corporate wars. This is best thing ever. People are waking up.
“if you can’t motivate people to defend their country after 9/11. . .”, hmmm. maybe Bush’s sham wars had a lasting effect on the population they needed in the meat grinder?
Repent to Jesus Christ “Give us today our daily bread.”
Matthew 6:11 NIV
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The U.S. Military and the U.S. Healthcare system have a lot in common. First, politicians who are paid by lobbyist to act only in the interest of big money. Second, private contractors, and large corporations overbilling for tools, equipment, and services to extremes. Third, severely undervalued staff. Fourth, a lot of people suffering and dying unnecessarily. 🤔😒
Commander told me I’d regret getting out when I did, gotta tell you.. he couldnt have been more wrong.
Get payed the same to be a fast food manager
…..This is a good news to China & Russia……..😈😈😈😈😈😁😁😁!
I have another reason why nobody is joining the military.. A reason that these pundits totally overlooked.. But yall don’t want to hear it.. Yall would rather be blue-pilled..
Feminist can front line don’t see why feminist ducking recruitment if they want exclusive privileges and exemptions
Pay is bad, benefits are bad. Had to wait months for an mri with va when a civilian clinic got done in a couple of days. Poor leadership imagine waking up early everyday and not knowing at what time you might make it home because some decided to do a random inventory inspection.
Why not recruit foreign fighters at a fraction of the cost. Plus get to chose better fighters. Plus not worry about loosing fighters in conflict. Plus allow for them to get involved in unsanctioned conflicts on the USA’s behalf…Some of the best fighters serving the USA were foreigners.
The media played a part on it. 🤷🏽♂️ 4 main reasons.
1. The way our vets get treated after serving is bs.
2.The culture war on straight God-fearing man. Also promoting being unhealthy.
3. The media helping drive a wedge between people. To the point some feeling ashamed to be an American when like it or not this is the best nation in the world. Yes, with all our imperfections.
4. They scared off the same ppl that make the back bone of our a Armed Forces. 🤦🏽♂️
it’s sad. Also why can’t females be added to the draft if we are all equal?
The comparison of Pearl Harbor & 9/11 is ridiculous but what can we expect from a a former High Ranking Military Personnel nothing but a gaslighting perspective 🙄
This dude is blaming the fact that it’s a volunteer service. READ THE ROOM BUDDY
Do “legacy” recruiting just like colleges: all politicians kids are drafted first before moving to average Joe’s kids🙄
3:41 “so that you remain free” He drank the Kool-Aid bottle at once 😂
Who would think no one wants to serve a government that is directly aggressive against its own citizens!! Shocking!
Maybe stop invading foreign countries and start actually focusing on defending the homeland, and you might see a change 🤔🤷
I wonder why
4:01 OK boomer. We young people aren’t gullible fools and know that 9/11 was an inside job and that war is a racket and that the power brokers of the world financed both sides of every war since the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Female drill sgts, what an embarrassment
Amazing, maybe dont do all this woke bs
Let me seen here .
Horrible leadership
Toxic workplace
Horrible work/life balance
Absolutely garbage pay
I could go on for days
I wonder why ?
Maybe they should focus more on defending our country and less on drag shows and transgenderism.
I mf wonder why
maby because just like everything else the boomers have ruined the army. it is so rigid and the leadership is so bad its simply not worth it.
lol,
Does Vietnam ring a bell? You think young people want to be treated to that, all over again?
It’s your fault. You are the ones trying to make the military, some sort of social justice product.
Not to sound unamerican, but what are you serving for? We aren’t at war, war is not declared, so anything would be a police action just like Vietnam which cost 10’s of thousands of lives and now impacting children of Vietnam vets and grandchildren of Vietnam vets, Iraq was done under false information(what a shock), and if your lucky enough to come home in one piece there are mental and emotional issues or you come home with a chip on your shoulder and you think your better than everyone else simply because you chose to serve. There is no positive impact whatsoever. And you also come home to a society still fighting over gender, skin color, religion, what continent your born on, who you fall in love with, and what religion you practice.
“You don’t say”
Who would want to join the woke military and have this administration as your leadership? They are selling out the country to China, letting our country be invaded at our southern border, and getting us into a potential war that may happen. All the career politicians care about is lining thier own pockets at the expense of the American citizens.
because our soldiers haven’t fought for freedom since the revolutionary war.
These 2 guys are propagandist ! Telling more lies.
The reason recruitment is down is the liberal democrats kicking out military people for not getting covid shots, pushing trans policies, and kicking out any soil see who is patriotic. Talk to soldiers who recently left and they will tell you this.
Not too mention the anti American thought that is being taught in school
i see no problem here.
The Army will offer you training in any job you want – as long as you have a reasonable aptitude test score. Then…. ready for this… you’ll get training…. wait for it….wait for it,
then that job is really not needed right now …. so …. here’s a rifle kid…. got a problem with that…. tough.!
there are reasons why this is so but democrats and lefties do not want to admit why. the afghan withdrawal crushed us. so many lives lost for nothing. this inept administration has destroyed everything good about the military today and the never-ending social engineering and politics is driving people away. the selection processes and advancement criteria from this admin is “anyone but whitey” and it is obvious. just look at the recommended reading and DEI training. also look at the idiocy of the hunt for extremism within the ranks when the DoD STILL has not defined it. if someone likes the dallas cowboys they are now not only suspect but they are also possibly and extremist. if you ask what is extremism they write your name down and you better watch out.
I have served for 11 years. I did 4 years active duty as a 89A ammunition specialist, 6 years in the reserves serving with a training unit, and after a one year break I went back in the national guard and now a 19D cav scout. I mean sure there have been downs in my career of how leadership treated me but it’s the civilian world that I feel like I was treated worse where it’s been difficult to find a good paying job even with my military background and my college degree it seems like they don’t want nothing to do with me. I would basically say if you were willing to join, try to join a career that’s a skill. Like maybe combat medic, which can lead to being a nurse, being in IT and logistics. As for how your treated don’t forget, it’s just a dumb toxic. We are ship that is everywhere both in the military and the civilian world. We can never avoid it is if we try to change it it will never go away.
Good, the less new terrorists the better
Go to war with Russia. Our soldiers are begging to fight. Nobody wants to join a peacetime army because the fat cats won’t promote anyone.
Or maybe because we treat our vets like crap when they come home. Maybe because what would have been a potential recruit watched a dad, uncle, or friend die because they were discarded by the system. We talk a big game regarding our vets, but that’s all we do. Congress has money for war but not for the people who fight it.
Right now its just popular to not join. The military should emphasize career opportunities and provide EASY ACCESS to those opportunities while serving. Instead, service members get stuck, stop caring, and or end up getting out.