U.S. Military Facing A Recruitment Crisis

DNYUZ/New York Times: With Few Able and Fewer Willing, U.S. Military Can’t Find Recruits 

FOUNTAIN, Colo. — The local Army recruiting station was empty. The normally reliable recruiting grounds at the nearby Walmart were a bust. With the Army still thousands of soldiers short of its recruiting goal, the station commander, Sgt. First Class James Pulliam, dressed head to toe in camouflage, scanned a strip-mall parking lot for targets. 

He spotted a young woman getting out of a car, and put on his best salesman smile. 

“Hey, how’d you know I was going to be here today!” the sergeant said with an affable Carolina drawl, as if greeting an old friend. “I’m going to help put you in the Army!” 

These are tough times for military recruiting. Almost across the board, the armed forces are experiencing large shortfalls in enlistments this year — a deficit of thousands of entry-level troops that is on pace to be worse than any since just after the Vietnam War. It threatens to throw a wrench into the military’s machinery, leaving critical jobs unfilled and some platoons with too few people to function.  

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WNU Editor: Even with this recruitment crisis, tens of thousands of US soldiers could be discharged due to non-compliance with vaccine mandates .... Hundreds of thousands of US troops may face dismissal (RT). Or maybe not .... US judge blocks Air Force from kicking out, punishing thousands of unvaccinated troops (American Military News).