U.S. Army Lt. Col. Richard A. Montcalm gives the Oath of Enlistment, April 18, 2023, at the Douthit Gunnery Complex on Fort Riley, Kansas. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jared Simmons)
Military.com: The Army Suddenly, and Chaotically, Told Hundreds of Soldiers They Have to Be Recruiters Immediately
Without warning, hundreds of noncommissioned officers were ordered via email to report to the recruiting school at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in less than a week, with hundreds more set to start at the school in December -- a sudden unexpected move by the Army as the service scrambles to boost its recruiting force by 800 by the end of the year.
The orders came after a breakdown in how the Army tracks how many recruiters it has coming through the pipeline along with retention of existing ones, according to Lt. Gen. Douglas Stitt, the Army's top personnel officer.
The sudden depletion of recruiters caught Army planners flat-footed, with officials unable to provide a clear explanation as to what went wrong. Now, NCOs will likely have to move during the holiday season and in the middle of the school year, sowing chaos for families.
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WNU Editor: Why the rush to have recruiters? Why the rush for new soldiers? If this does not work-out, is a U.S. draft next? You tell me.
I will tell you: no draft unless the US declares war.
ReplyDeleteI literally just watched a video of an gigantic protest outside Turkish Incirlik air base, something is up..
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I was thinking, it's becoming so clear that something big is coming from the Middle East
Delete"The sudden depletion of recruiters caught Army planners flat-footed, with officials unable to provide a clear explanation as to what went wrong."
ReplyDeleteThis is a bullshit statement. If it isd true, however, it is a cause for massive worry, because it means the Army does not know what it is doing.
Hans,
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The perception in Turkey is that Washington is behind the Israeli military operations in Gaza, so they are also to be blamed.
In terms of security, Turks regularly protest the US outside the base since early 2000s. So it is pretty standard
Has anything changed since the days of the Roman Forum and rented mobs?
Sometimes when governments communicate they rile up mobs, test launch missiles, send pointy diplomatic notes, ...
An E5, who had been stationed in The Phillipines, stationed in Japan and had married a local, told me many of the protests in Japan in the US were bought and paid for by the Japanese Communist Party. The Party would pay people to protest on their lunch hour. After the hour was up the western h0 media would pack up and the office workers would go back to their day jobs.
3 or so years ago some of us (misled?) were afraid that the air base would be taken over and the US might lose some nukes. That story with comments is somewhere here in WNU blog. Things have been overtly going down hill ever since that jerk Erdogan was elected in 2000.
"Turkish police Sunday fired tear gas to disperse a pro-Palestinian rally staged outside a military base housing US forces just hours before the arrival in Ankara of Washington's top diplomat.
ReplyDeleteThe protest outside the Incirlik Air Base in southeastern Turkey was organised by the IHH humanitarian relief fund, which in 2010 led a flotilla to Gaza that sparked Israeli raids in which 10 civilians died.
An AFP photographer said the police intervened when the crowd began to walk toward the base after holding a peaceful rally in Incirlik.
Images on social media showed several hundred people waving Palestinian flags running across a field chased by the police, who also used water cannon.
There were no reports of injuries or arrests. US officials issued no comment."
https://news.yahoo.com/turkish-police-tear-gas-pro-161619599.html
This action by the US Army is unprecedented.
ReplyDeleteThe army is working projections..... and right now they can Harley keep/meet all their current commitments. But they are concerned , and they should be.
If we do go to war manpower will be needed asap at the front. But then who will train and logistically support there thousands of new troops if they have a draft?
You can say the reserves or national guard, but they are already committed to thier mission sets. This is what happens when you over commit to missions and un-resourced operations and you do not, at the same time, keep you ranks filled.
When a crisis comes you have to eat your seed corn to just keep going.
The army sees that now and is trying to fix the situation.
" But then who will train and logistically support there thousands of new troops if they have a draft?"
ReplyDeleteIf you are a trainers stationed at fort hood for example maybe you should not rotate out to the front line until your replacement comes? Do the complete 2 or 3 year tour?
Don't send the trainers to the front like Putin and Hitler did? Great minds think alike!
The Army keeps stats on ascension and retention rates by MOS. So how could they be caught flat footed?
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If you make a run chart and put the dates when CRT and DEI were implemented, it will be apparent. Not hard.
118. Concur, but the trainers at Benning or Jackson are already committed to their particular training cycle and these cycles run a year long and a year out. The question is ...Who then will train the new surge of draftees?
ReplyDelete"The question is, Who then will train the new surge of draftees?"
ReplyDeleteAnswer: gender-fluid dress-wearing LGBTQ drill sergeants. The new Army under Biden and the Democrats.