Whites aren’t joining the United States Army, and the largest of the services fell 15 percent short of its recruiting goal last year.
The latest from Military.com, based on internal Pentagon data, alarms the military and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Reasons abound for the lack of white recruits, one of them being “conservative” parents, officials say, who keep trashing the “woke” military. That’s one explanation. Another might be that Traitor Joe Biden began waging war on the military the day he took office.
In other words, the military is “woke.” And maybe white Christian boys aren’t much interested in having “diversity” propaganda shoved down their throats or serving with mentally ill men who pretend to be women.
The Numbers
“The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall shortfall of about 10,000 recruits for the Army in 2023 as the service missed its target of 65,000 new soldiers,” the website reported:
44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant drop. No other demographic group has seen such a precipitous decline, though there have been ups and downs from year to year.
Since 2018, the website reported, recruiting among whites has nosedived. Five years ago, a majority of recruits, 56.4 percent, were white. By last year, just 44 percent were. As well, black recruits jumped from 20 to 24 percent, and Hispanic recruits from 17 percent to 24 percent, even though recruiting has stalled.
Army officials “don’t see a single cause to the recruiting problem, but pointed to a confluence of issues for Army recruiting, including partisan scrutiny of the service, a growing obesity epidemic and an underfunded public education system,” the website reported.
Though the drop in recruiting among whites coincides with a drop in the labor force among whites in general, other problems abound. Some 80,000 Americans died opioid deaths in 2021, with “75% of overdose victims being white and many in their twenties.”
Army officials said Southerners can’t meet service fitness standards, “though there are no indications that recruits from the South are disproportionately white,” the website reported. As The New American reported yesterday, most Gen Zers — the age cohort in which most military recruits fall — can’t meet the military’s fitness standards.
Anyway, “a 2018 study published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice found Southern recruits are 22% more likely to get injured in basic training and had the lowest median levels of fitness compared to troops from other parts of the country,” the website continued:
Nationally, the South has the highest prevalence of obesity, something researchers have attributed to a slew of factors, including restrictions on access to health care, high-quality fitness facilities and healthy food. Large swaths of the South also have relatively low household incomes — putting easy access to fitness training and healthy foods even further out of reach.
It’s Conservative Parents
One Army official blamed “partisan attacks from conservative lawmakers and media, which has an overwhelmingly white audience.”
They’re using the military to bash Sleepy Joe for imposing leftist woke ideology on the military, the official said. They claim that the military “is so preoccupied with liberal values that they have abandoned their warfighting priorities. In most cases, those attacks have zeroed in on the services being more inclusive for women, service members from racial minority groups and LGBTQ+ troops.”
A young recruit doesn’t care whether the recruit next to him is a poofter or cross-dressing dude, the official said. The Army even produced a pro-homosexual recruiting ad, The Calling, about a girl with “two mothers,” lesbians who joined “pride” celebrations.
“The Army, in producing ads like that one, has seen data showing that LGBTQ+ rights are considered a major priority among Gen Z, the demographic that the service needs to court to build its ranks,” the website reported.
Except, again, that 77 percent of Gen Zers aren’t fit for military duty anyway.
Another Explanation
Yet another possible explanation for the lack of white recruits is the Biden administration’s pushing extreme anti-white, anti-Christian leftism into the military, which young people see, “conservative” parents regardless.
Consider the military-wide obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusions, an openly anti-white program running through not only the military but also schools and corporate America. The Defense Department is so obsessed it has devoted an entire office to it. For its part, the Army is “implementing a strategic plan to advance DEI across the Total Force and establish the Army as a global leader in DEI.”
One would think the Army should be a “global leader” in war fighting, but anyway, any would-be recruit familiar with it knows what DEI is: a weapon to attack white Christian men.
Part of that DEI program is pushing perverts into the foxhole. Biden picked a “transgender” woman to run his DoD transition, and said those mentally ill people can serve openly. Thus did the Pentagon hand down “rules” for how to treat them. The Army ordered women to shower with men who pretend to be women.
Nellis Air Force Base hosted a drag queen show. Officials at Ramstein Air Force Based in Germany planned a drag queen story hour for kids, but canceled it after The Post Millennial publicized it.
And none of that includes pushing women into combat and leadership roles for which they are not suited.
As for recruiting in the South, perhaps the military’s war on all things Confederate partly explains the decline. Now that the Defense Department has ordered anything associated with the Confederacy expunged and destroyed, maybe Southern boys whose ancestors fought with Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Hampton Bragg won’t enlist.
