{"id":1696938,"date":"2022-10-15T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696938"},"modified":"2022-10-16T18:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:20:49","slug":"is-the-u-s-military-too-woke-to-be-able-to-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-u-s-military-too-woke-to-be-able-to-recruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the U.S. Military too \u201cWoke\u201d to Be Able to Recruit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-the-u-s-military-too-woke-to-be-able-to-recruit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The Army <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2022\/07\/19\/army-will-be-up-to-28000-troops-understrength-vice-chief-tells-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missed its recruiting goal<\/a> by about 15,000 new soldiers in 2022, coming up 25% short of its goal at a time when each of the services were struggling to meet their benchmarks. Military officials worry that all of the branches have had to reach deep into their pools of delayed entry applicants, a move that puts them behind in recruiting for the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Military recruiters have leaned on tried-and-true factors to explain the challenges, including low unemployment and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/test-scores-drop-disqualification-rates-rise-at-army-recruiting-shops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dearth of applicants up to physical, educational and behavioral standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">But the truth is, no one keeps detailed data on what\u2019s stopping America\u2019s youth from signing up. Experts and senior military leaders point to the perennial factors of competition from the private sector and a dwindling number of young Americans both qualified and interested in military service. But what they don\u2019t have much information on is why that propensity is going down, and whether the country is undergoing an ideological shift in attitude toward military service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">One possibility that is increasingly resonating with veterans is that the military is too \u201cwoke.\u201d Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for example, is among a group of Republican senators who have repeatedly blamed recruiting problems on the Biden administration for trying to build a \u201cwoke Army.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Thomas Spoehr, director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/defense\/commentary\/the-rise-wokeness-the-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently opined that wokeness<\/a> is the \u201cchief worry of grizzled American veterans today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cThe largest threat they see by far to our current military is the weakening of its fabric by radical progressive (or \u2018woke\u2019) policies being imposed, not by a rising generation of slackers, but by the very leaders charged with ensuring their readiness,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWokeness in the military is being imposed by elected and appointed leaders in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon who have little understanding of the purpose, character, traditions, and requirements of the institution they are trying to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Spoehr acknowledged that \u201cdirect \u2018cause and effect\u2019 studies on the impact of woke policies such as these do not exist,\u201d but suggested that \u201ccommon sense\u201d dictates that it is having an effect on recruiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 eGGFoB image-metadata\">Tech. Sgt. Rachel Armstrong congratulates airmen during a basic military training graduation ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio July 13. (Vanessa R. Adame\/Air Force) <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cIs anyone surprised that potential recruits \u2014 many of whom come from rural or poor areas of the country \u2014 don\u2019t want to spend their time being lectured about white privilege?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">In an interview with Fox News, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a West Point graduate and Army officer who served in Germany during the Cold War, talked about the campaign he is launching, including TV ads and a website, to target what he calls \u201cwoke polices\u201d directed toward the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cHow can we ask young men and women who have decided to risk their lives for America, even die for America, to affirm that our country is inherently racist?\u201d Pompeo wrote in a Sept. 28 opinion column for Fox. \u201cHow can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army missed its recruiting goal by about 15,000 new soldiers in 2022, coming up 25% short of its goal at a time when each of the services were struggling to meet their benchmarks. 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