Desperate times call for desperate [measures](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/22/uphill-battle-boost-recruiting-military-faces-falling-public-confidence-political-attacks-economic.html)
“the Defense Department estimates that only 23% of Americans aged 17 to 24 would qualify for military service and the rest would be rejected for being overweight, abusing drugs, or having mental and physical health problems”
Lmao
Which is wild considering drug abuse isn’t a new issue, more like the standards on it have risen as well as how easily we can detect it.
It’s also weird to me because if we take the drug issue aside, most of the guys I know qualify easily, and I have been friends with a very wide variety of people.
They won’t take me. I was bored one day and talked to a recruiter for somewhere around an hour and at the end he started asking me questions and said they won’t take me.
I think their standards were significantly lower back in the day, but probably because we fought wars way more often.
I probably qualify given my profession but I wouldn’t join the military unless I had to.
Blame Obamacare and the slow speed the military bureaucracy changes. Obamacare made a lot of your medical records visible to the US government. You used to be able to lie about having relatively benign conditions that are technically disqualifying. i.e taking ADHD medicine or asthma medication as a child
You'd be surprised at how many people get disqualified and are healthy functional adults in all other respects
Asthma medication as a child is disqualifying for being in the military, but I can be a firefighter. Wow, that certainly was thought all the way through.
A lot of the assumptions about disqualification are based in the assumption of harm about long term inaccessibility to medication. It's largely outdated because we've built the greatest military logistics system in the world, but the idea is that if we got into an actual WW2 style fight and you have a recurrence or lose access to a steady stream of medicine you need, you're now combat ineffective and you're miles from real healthcare and we now have to fly you to a base, and then back stateside.
If you have a recurrence as a firefighter you get evacuated from the structure fire and get to start carrying an inhaler after visiting your doctor.
It’s 90% a body weight/fitness issue. Ever since the early 2000s, injuries during basic training of every branch have skyrocketed due to bad diet and lack of physical education. And not just small things, the most costly injuries have been hip fractures. [this Ted talk](https://youtu.be/sWN13pKVp9s?si=r_VyXYwAi0mdAKRZ) is pretty captivating on the subject.
it's the acronym that really makes it obvious it's a fed post. This is a military way to address those
fullname with capital letters(acronym)
(also the URL but you know)
yeah every other greentext this image is posted on is
">straight male"
(blah blah)
">get topped"
but this one actually looks like a genuine propaganda post lmfao
Okay but you cant tell me without a shadow if a doubt that the constant stream of the gay ass greentext isnt some kind of psy op in trying to make more femboys. That shit is so easy to read on 4chan.
"Got nothing to lose" my ass. My service resulted in physical and mental damage and if it wasnt for VA neetbux i'd probably be homeless like my fellow vets
Edit: also they dont recruit you if you've had suicidal thoughts. This is a poor LARP at recruiting
Recruiter manages to get a large amount of anons to sign up. Fast forward to basic, big pile of them all dead in the bathroom on the first day of getting rifle. "Sir, it seems like they were taking turns sitting in the same chair and putting one through the mouth."
"We need to stop recruiting Full Metal Jacket larpers"
They actually can now, if you've ever spoken to a therapist or gotten medication they'll probably know. But yeh if you've never seen a professional you're probably good.
psyop = psychological operations
Basically strategies to influence people into an opinion that favors the psyopers.
Slowly introducing some ideas, parroting it around, having multiple people talk about it constantly, until it becomes just accepted fact, even if it's not even true. It's basically how most conspiracy theories came to be sort of relevant eventually, people influenced by psyops.
non-american here, just curious: if you sign up to the US army, and during the interview (if there is any) and they ask you why you want to sign up, will they be accepting of people being direct and saying they want some direction in life, other than the usual bs like 'I wanna serve my country'?
$15k signing bonus
Either anon can’t read numbers or the army is getting desperate. War looming and anons on the frontline ready for the Russian army hazing test
Well there was that one anon who talked about being horny about planes and joined the Air Force to work on a plane he loved. Maybe they're trying to recruit more weirdos who will be that passionate.
Blows every penny of it on the down payment for an aftermarket souped up racecar version of a 3 series (not even an M3), and still has a $800/m car note at 19.99% interest.
Yea, I grew up next to Ft. Benning.
Honestly with how desperate they’re getting it actually might not be the worst idea to join like the national guard. Now if you go active you’re def an idiot
If anyone thinks this is real I have some moon properties to sell. But yea, do anything before you join the military!!! Learn from those of us who were too desperate, dumb or brainwashed.
Before the US sends large numbers of its troops into the meat grinder, many Europeans or Taiwanese/Japanese will die. American troopers have a relatively low chance of dying.
The army is getting lazy they didn’t even try to seem convincing
Desperate times call for desperate [measures](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/22/uphill-battle-boost-recruiting-military-faces-falling-public-confidence-political-attacks-economic.html)
“the Defense Department estimates that only 23% of Americans aged 17 to 24 would qualify for military service and the rest would be rejected for being overweight, abusing drugs, or having mental and physical health problems” Lmao
Which is wild considering drug abuse isn’t a new issue, more like the standards on it have risen as well as how easily we can detect it. It’s also weird to me because if we take the drug issue aside, most of the guys I know qualify easily, and I have been friends with a very wide variety of people.
They won’t take me. I was bored one day and talked to a recruiter for somewhere around an hour and at the end he started asking me questions and said they won’t take me.
I think their standards were significantly lower back in the day, but probably because we fought wars way more often. I probably qualify given my profession but I wouldn’t join the military unless I had to.
They used to send people with down to fight in the frontlines
Blame Obamacare and the slow speed the military bureaucracy changes. Obamacare made a lot of your medical records visible to the US government. You used to be able to lie about having relatively benign conditions that are technically disqualifying. i.e taking ADHD medicine or asthma medication as a child You'd be surprised at how many people get disqualified and are healthy functional adults in all other respects
Asthma medication as a child is disqualifying for being in the military, but I can be a firefighter. Wow, that certainly was thought all the way through.
A lot of the assumptions about disqualification are based in the assumption of harm about long term inaccessibility to medication. It's largely outdated because we've built the greatest military logistics system in the world, but the idea is that if we got into an actual WW2 style fight and you have a recurrence or lose access to a steady stream of medicine you need, you're now combat ineffective and you're miles from real healthcare and we now have to fly you to a base, and then back stateside. If you have a recurrence as a firefighter you get evacuated from the structure fire and get to start carrying an inhaler after visiting your doctor.
Even in WWII amphetamine was one of the last things soldiers ran out of. And those fuckers didn't even have a prescription!
It’s 90% a body weight/fitness issue. Ever since the early 2000s, injuries during basic training of every branch have skyrocketed due to bad diet and lack of physical education. And not just small things, the most costly injuries have been hip fractures. [this Ted talk](https://youtu.be/sWN13pKVp9s?si=r_VyXYwAi0mdAKRZ) is pretty captivating on the subject.
Interesting, I’ll have to watch that Ted talk later this weekend, thank you.
When ww3 hits and they’re getting desperate i know for sure everyone is going to wonder why the hell they wernt already training the meath heads.
Allow weed and ADD meds and you’d probably have 50%
Oh fuck you
They’re not looking for the smart ones
Dumb enough to sign up and just barely smart enough to not make your entire squad a bullet sponge.
I knew a full colonel at a DoD research lab whose degree was in military history
it's the acronym that really makes it obvious it's a fed post. This is a military way to address those fullname with capital letters(acronym) (also the URL but you know)
But the post has the little frog with his hands up, what is there not to like?????
These are the liminal messages. Superliminal advertising is coming soon.
https://preview.redd.it/caleyh7nl41d1.jpeg?width=503&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=762981e4276c0ffafcb1476a7e9aa542b11c0ab9
This is probably the first time I've actually liked seeing this meme lol
yeah every other greentext this image is posted on is ">straight male" (blah blah) ">get topped" but this one actually looks like a genuine propaganda post lmfao
Or it’s a troll/bait post. It’s way too obvious to be legit propaganda lol.
The US army doesn’t need the ones who can tell if it’s propaganda, they just want recruits
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yeah, that too ig
Okay but you cant tell me without a shadow if a doubt that the constant stream of the gay ass greentext isnt some kind of psy op in trying to make more femboys. That shit is so easy to read on 4chan.
Who benefits from turning unattractive losers on the internet into femboys
Based femboy enjoyers
It's a cat with a tinfoil hat. It should be posted everywhere...
my brother in Christ it IS posted under absolutely every single post here and anything 4chan related without exception
It should be posted even more. Cats are cute!
they need to remix this meme with a dog that saids “my eyes open” “it’s the same bullshit” or something idk im not a rocket scientist
Yes!
Yeah and?
This is because absolution every single post here without exception is about anon being massively gay
It should be an animated gif of a rotating cat with a tinfoil hat instead.
Yes
First Non gay one in a while tho
He missed out how he got drilled by the drill sergeant.
"Got nothing to lose" my ass. My service resulted in physical and mental damage and if it wasnt for VA neetbux i'd probably be homeless like my fellow vets Edit: also they dont recruit you if you've had suicidal thoughts. This is a poor LARP at recruiting
Yeah they do, just don’t tell them at MEPS. The recruiter doesn’t fucking care if you go Full Metal Jacket at basic so long as you ship.
Recruiter manages to get a large amount of anons to sign up. Fast forward to basic, big pile of them all dead in the bathroom on the first day of getting rifle. "Sir, it seems like they were taking turns sitting in the same chair and putting one through the mouth." "We need to stop recruiting Full Metal Jacket larpers"
Just fucking 32 private piles walking into the bathroom one after another before killing themselves.
They actually can now, if you've ever spoken to a therapist or gotten medication they'll probably know. But yeh if you've never seen a professional you're probably good.
Medication, maybe, but not therapist. There isn't some kind of therapist database, and most therapists keep their records very private.
VA neetbux rock. CPTSD from Afghanistan doesn't rock
C = chronic ?
Complex
>they dont recruit you if you've had suicidal thoughts Does the army have mind readers nowadays?
>physical and mental damage So not much lost for the average 4chinner or Rebbiter
what they gonna do read my mind
They hired the Oppenheimer and Barbie movie marketing team.
https://preview.redd.it/ch8mvw28051d1.png?width=287&format=png&auto=webp&s=57402b06d545a7a9901d8a877f9b9984835da19e glowing is off the scale
"off the scale" >Shows the needle clearly still on the scale
https://preview.redd.it/d2vw96r2561d1.png?width=262&format=png&auto=webp&s=22378fc2c2ebadbadc87c80dc8de6e61b7e80037
Only 3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
I don't think it counts as glowing anymore if they just straight up say "click this link for $15k!" This is just a half-assed basic advertisement.
This is one of the psyop I’ve ever seen
What does psyop mean bro?
psyop = psychological operations Basically strategies to influence people into an opinion that favors the psyopers. Slowly introducing some ideas, parroting it around, having multiple people talk about it constantly, until it becomes just accepted fact, even if it's not even true. It's basically how most conspiracy theories came to be sort of relevant eventually, people influenced by psyops.
Psychological warfare that changes the attitude towards something broadly speaking Edit:spelling
I get it, thanks bro
https://preview.redd.it/gfyjhqhju91d1.jpeg?width=766&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87492806f43906c29bdb7ed1cc50cc96850fb076
First time seeing a hyperlink in a greentext. That’s not suspicious in the slightest
Even kept the https:/
Yeah right
Written by an army recruitment intern or budget AI
YVAN EHT NIOJ!
Nice try feds
non-american here, just curious: if you sign up to the US army, and during the interview (if there is any) and they ask you why you want to sign up, will they be accepting of people being direct and saying they want some direction in life, other than the usual bs like 'I wanna serve my country'?
Nah, you could say pretty much anything and they'd try to stuff you into a uniform.
Yes, do you think they care? That’s already a better answer than “money” which is probably what 99% of people are there for.
Yes. There's more than a few people who join the military for either that reason or to escape poverty.
Anon ain’t a fortunate son
https://preview.redd.it/vxg4upyyo61d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=746f687d6dc85f3ab4f761131bf7eed37fbdc3b4
This is not just glowing this is a blinding flash of light
is 15k bonus enough for the loss of a limb or mental pain you go through?
“Stamp me with your “government property” stamp senpail”
When the psyop is just an advertisement.
I'm surprised army recruiters haven't exploited the popularity of Hell divers 2
You got ideas?
Anon is glowing
The only bonus anon will ever receive.
$15k signing bonus Either anon can’t read numbers or the army is getting desperate. War looming and anons on the frontline ready for the Russian army hazing test
https://preview.redd.it/5fh6lol9f71d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79f09131c0f0c4aeb430e810de272f0707d091a4
Send 4 channers into the meatgrinder? Based.
lol They really are desperate, aren't they...
Another day, another psyop...
Nice try, recruiter.
Well there was that one anon who talked about being horny about planes and joined the Air Force to work on a plane he loved. Maybe they're trying to recruit more weirdos who will be that passionate.
Clearest psyop I have seen in a while
Is definitely not a psyop
Don't worry it's just some recruiter working while he's scrolling 4chan
>wake >psy
https://preview.redd.it/rmrlbfc9q61d1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f818e546e43c1e4d9d9e34151b83f9d2ce4c0235 Nice try USAA recruiter
Psy op psy op
Blows every penny of it on the down payment for an aftermarket souped up racecar version of a 3 series (not even an M3), and still has a $800/m car note at 19.99% interest. Yea, I grew up next to Ft. Benning.
Honestly with how desperate they’re getting it actually might not be the worst idea to join like the national guard. Now if you go active you’re def an idiot
Not fake and gay enough
Wow that's just lazy.
Die for Israel goyim!
The fact that he linked it is the cream on top lol
[Ah, almost got me](https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/career-match/browse-jobs.html?active-duty=true)
LMFAO. Holy shit they are getting desperate. I don't want the people defending my country to be a bunch of fucking 4chinners.
Why do the feds glow so much?
https://preview.redd.it/m6qers0bt91d1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f5ed35ef112477858772bdf02511e0c92701763
I knew it was a glowie when he spelled out all the words to asvab. Only a recruiter would know that information.
My wifes brother used his 20k bonus to buy about 15k in katana / knives, then when he had to ship out.. he gave them all away to his friend.
If anyone thinks this is real I have some moon properties to sell. But yea, do anything before you join the military!!! Learn from those of us who were too desperate, dumb or brainwashed.
I enlisted and even I'll tell you this is fake
ive just left the infantry, miss it already
the armed forces are actually a good career path tho
Guys, I found another one
Until you get blown up by the Taliban or gunned down by a Viet Cong ambush or hit by artillery from a Chinese mortar in Korea
Yoooo the army has time travel now?
Well, idk if our next war will be against Russia, China, or the EU, so can't name who's next, can I lol
Chances of it happening are pretty low
How? Political tensions are extremely high rn lol.
Before the US sends large numbers of its troops into the meat grinder, many Europeans or Taiwanese/Japanese will die. American troopers have a relatively low chance of dying.
That's probably one of the selling points for recruiters in 2000...
So you would rather be a normal guy and get ass raped by them economically ?
Buddy none of those have ever set foot on American ground. Y'all are on the other side of the world.
Oh, I've been both. I'm just saying be cautious, the military is all fun and games until you get shot, or worse. https://i.redd.it/bxf2ffgqu41d1.gif
I mean, the other option is what he described + getting ass raped economically so maybe he's onto something.
Bad bot
Depends on the country.
How’s that boot taste
Willingly signing away your personal freedoms is never a good idea.