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The Military Says It's 'Too Woke' to Explain Recruitment Failures
from Donbas | The Tim Dillon Show #319 · #319
10 min
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Tim reads news about the US Army missing recruitment goals and Republicans like Tommy Tuberville blaming 'wokeness' rather than failed wars, questioning what specifically about the military is supposedly woke and finding little concrete evidence.
- Military recruitment is off because nobody believes what the government says anymore about anything.
- The military claims it's too woke, not that people have seen Afghanistan and Iraq.
- The Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 soldiers in 2022, falling 25% short.
- Delayed entry applicants include people the military doesn't want to take right away, like cops thrown out for shooting people.
- Military officials can't actually explain why propensity for military service is going down.
- Senator Tommy Tuberville blames the military's recruiting problems on wokeness instead of ideology shift.
- The Heritage Foundation claims wokeness is the chief worry of veterans, despite high suicide and drug abuse rates among them.
- Tim questions what wokeness actually means in the military, unable to find specific examples of it.
- Military training focuses minimally on diversity compared to hundreds of hours on operational and safety training.
- When asked to recommend military service, hundreds of veterans emailed that they would not, blaming wokeness instead of the failed wars themselves.
military recruitmentTommy Tubervillewokeness in militaryHeritage FoundationAfghanistan and IraqPeter Deas