Monday, February 05, 2024

U.S. Navy Drops High School Diploma, GED Requirement for Recruits — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? By Mike Miller

U.S. Navy Drops High School Diploma, GED Requirement for Recruits — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? By Mike Miller
"No Diploma? No Problem! 
The U.S. Navy has again lowered enlistment requirements as it struggles to meet self-inflicted recruiting goals. 
  • As reported by Navy Times on Friday, America's naval force will now allow those without a high school diploma to enlist as long as they score a 50 or higher on the Armed Forces Qualification Test that all prospects must take. 
  • Those without a General Educational Development (GED) will also be allowed to enlist if they hit the test threshold, according to the Chief of Naval Personnel’s office.
The Navy is not alone in its failure to hit recruiting goals...

...Lowering standards had been recommended to the military brass in order to improve diversity metrics. As was ignoring criminal records and other issues...

...As the Heritage Foundation opined in a December 2023 article: "The military went woke.

Today's American military has fully embraced the social imperatives of the Left and the most progressive aspects of American society.

  • The U.S. Air Force selects officers based on a race- and sex-based quota system for officer applicants—an affirmative action program that would make the Ivy League blush.
  • In August, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command released a report on “Women in Combat”—not to analyze the effectiveness of Army Special Operations Forces, but to excoriate itself for supposed persistent bigotry.
  • Earlier this yearArmy officials released a memo making soldiers undergoing “gender transition” non-deployable for almost one year...

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