{"id":1921083,"date":"2023-04-29T02:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uninspiring-political-leadership-driving-recruits-away-from-military-rep-garcia\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T02:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:29:00","slug":"uninspiring-political-leadership-driving-recruits-away-from-military-rep-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uninspiring-political-leadership-driving-recruits-away-from-military-rep-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Uninspiring\u2019 Political Leadership Driving Recruits Away from Military: Rep. Garcia"},"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\">20<\/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%2Funinspiring-political-leadership-driving-recruits-away-from-military-rep-garcia%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=1921083&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Why Young Americans Are Turning Away from Military Service<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0428\/a8659c65-6959-4462-814a-ba7d1cee050a\/audio.mp3?length=2331693&#038;duration=194\"><\/div>\n<p>Uninspiring leadership and lousy pay are driving young Americans away from military service, according to one congressman.<\/p>\n<h3>A Lack of Vision<\/h3>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s failure to present a positive vision of military service and lack of accountability for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-accuses-biden-of-breaking-deal-with-taliban-says-withdrawal-is-disastrous-and-a-foreign-policy-humiliation\/\" title=\"Pence Accuses Biden Of Breaking Deal With Taliban, Says Withdrawal Is \u2018Disastrous\u2019 And A \u2018Foreign-Policy Humiliation\u2019\">chaotic withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan are failing to inspire Americans to join the military, said Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that the Afghanistan debacle, which was touted by this administration as an outstanding success, was an absolutely devastating factor in people wanting to get out [of the military],\u201d Garcia said at an April 28 talk held by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeadership matters. And when you have a president of the United States\u2014like we do right now\u2014who is uninspiring and frankly reckless on the international stage\u2026 and when you see a Secretary of Defense within the administration behave\u2026 like he\u2019s a non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-trump-coverage-reveals-how-media-frame-and-exclude\/\" title=\"ANALYSIS: Trump Coverage Reveals How Media Frame and Exclude\">-playable character<\/a>, it\u2019s not inspiring for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Divisive Issues<\/h3>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has come under increasing fire in recent weeks, after saying he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/zero-regrets-afghanistan-withdrawal\">no regrets<\/a> about the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that resulted in 13 dead American service members and Afghanistan\u2019s political situation reverting to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uninspiring-political-leadership-driving-recruits-away-from-military-rep-garcia\/\" title=\"\u2018Uninspiring\u2019 Political Leadership Driving Recruits Away from Military: Rep. Garcia\">status quo ante bellum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia added that the Pentagon\u2019s continued focus on politically divisive, non-warfighting issues like diversity, equity, and inclusion and environmental initiatives was evidence that Department of Defense (Dod) leadership did not have an adequate grasp of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critical-race-theory-has-no-place-in-military-rep-ken-buck\/\" title=\"Critical Race Theory Has No Place in Military: Rep. Ken Buck\">real threats facing<\/a> the nation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Value Proposition<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe whole point of the military is to deter a war. And, if not, to win a war. That\u2019s it,\u201d Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia added that congressional and executive leadership had also failed for years to offer an adequate value proposition to recruit new talent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The entry pay for a recruit in the military, he noted, is only about $21,000 per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder young Americans are turning away from military service. With uninspiring leadership, divisive issues, and low pay, it&#8217;s hard to see the value in joining the military. It&#8217;s time for our leaders to step up and present a positive vision of military service, address the real threats facing our nation, and offer a better value proposition to recruit new talent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Uninspiring leadership and lousy pay are driving young Americans away from military service, according to one congressman. The Biden administration\u2019s failure to present a positive vision of military service and lack of accountability for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan are failing to inspire Americans to join the military, said Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.). \u201cWe all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":1921084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[25396,11680,16246,5191,4505,3753,10282,7129],"class_list":["post-1921083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-uninspiring","tag-driving","tag-garcia","tag-leadership","tag-military","tag-political","tag-recruits","tag-rep"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}