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Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service (2014)
- spoonjim 5y ago“ The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly” Huh, I wonder why high quality youth aren’t more eager to fly across the world and kill 8-year-olds for the honor of the uniform…
- thuccess129 5y agoThe current soldier of the year speaks Mandarin.
- baybal2 5y agoThis made me chuckle
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- cable2600 5y agoBeing overweight or mentally ill is cause for disqualification. All the kiddies with autism can't go.
- wyrm 5y agoThe US military is currently accepting recruits with autism, as long as it doesn't interfere with duty or training. Or something like that. Frankly, mild autism is an asset in the military. It's an environment where the rules don't have to make any sense; they just have to be followed.
- hulitu 5y agoThere are a lotvof mentally ill people in the military.
- krageon 5y agoSeeing autism as a mental illness I suppose is a perspective that is more widely shared and debatable, but what does being overweight have to do with anything?
- disabled 5y agoThe above article was written in 2014, just FYI.
- bitwize 5y agoKids are playing video games instead of doing sports.
- morjom 5y agoQuick gratification and its ease of access, depression epidemic, news 24/7. I can see why many like to escape into a video game.
- hulitu 5y agoI heard the US has a base in Ramstein where they play video games. I don't see why these people would not qualify.
- baybal2 5y agoSeeing waistlines of most US servicemen, I think they don't play much anything other than computer games https://www.military.com/military-fitness/weight-loss/troops-too-fat-to-fight https://www.military.com/military-fitness/weight-loss/troops...
- bitwize 5y agoThere was a spec-ops guy on Joe Rogan who said that it's nearly impossible to find good spec-ops candidates, because kids don't play enough sports and they're out of shape.
- bastawhiz 5y agoIt seems that this is not a problem or the US military wouldn't spend so much sponsoring the creation of games and sponsoring eSports.