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The Army will now allow recruits to enlist up to age 42 and has removed a waiver requirement for those with a marijuana-related conviction.
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Oh I don’t know what is allowed~!
[Platoon: I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS ALLOWED~!]
Government zah is mighty loud~!
[Platoon: GOVERNMENT ZAH IS MIGHTY LOUD!]
One of these things is good. Unfortunately, all of it is in service of getting warm bodies to participate in Operation Epstein’s Fury.
Ruh roh.
Well, that is not a good sign.
I think they should raise the upper and the lower limit. Let’s send 55 to 85 year olds. Maybe that way it will end sooner.
hey thats RUSSIAS policy now.
Lowering the bar for stoners… I remember Buffalo Soldiers.
people arnt joining because there better jobs out there even without a degree, even walmart, amazon pays more or at least close more and more chill. younger people are likely chasing College and/or trying to become an influencer.
Where is Walmart or Amazon paying $54-60k a year? Every position at both outside maybe upper management makes minimum wage. 🤨
Yeah the war with Iran is going to be a long one.
iran likely wont lose too much since they have the home advantage, plus they have been preparing for a long time.
oh shit we’re going to get drafted aren’t we
Wonder if they will draft trans women and force detrans them.
They can draft this turd out of my ass.
A draft would be a civil war, especially if they set it at 42.
Nobody would fucking go, and we’d see ICE agents used to round up anyone “military aged” starting in poverty striken neighborhoods and eventually expanding.
trump’s dumb enough to try it tho, so we’re probably gonna find out.
Not if everyone first joins ICE if that were to happen!
You know that at very least Hegseth has been walking around with a half chub at the thought of reinstating the draft. We’re talking about invading multiple countries at any given time. All of the strong man dictators that Trump admires are in countries with compulsory military service.Then there’s the timing of the announcement that Barron is ineligible to serve because he’s too tall or some shit, the press secretary refusing to rule out a draft, and now this. I think they are seriously contemplating the possibility of a mandatory draft in the future.
Then there’s the timing of the announcement that Barron is ineligible to serve because he’s too tall or some shit
I had to look that up. Apparently the limit is 6’8", and they claim he’s 6’9". Now, the kid is clearly a tall motherfucker, but how much y’all wanna bet he actually tops out at 6’7"? (6’9" is 205.74cm)
He might be five inches taller than trump really is, but that would put him at 6’4"ish.
Not the unbelievable 6’7" that’s 5 inches taller than trump’s fake height.
There’s a very real chance trump doesn’t know he lies about his own height so in his orbit everyone adjust so his 6’2" height can be rationalized. It explains why he can’t believe celebrities/athletes whose real (or close) height is well known.
They dont play trumps adjustment game, so in his head it doesn’t make sense they’re so much bigger.
When I played sports in college did the opposite when out at bars. Every guy shaved 4-5 inches off our height because we were tall enough someone would ask. And any guy not in on the joke would lose their shit because it looked like they were lying.
This is a fucking hilarious joke to play on friends I’ve never heard of that before.
Huh, so their logic is draft me, give me a gun, teach me to shoot, and throw a military parade birthday party.
This is going to be one for the books.
Their logic is to draft you, put you in high vis hand-me -downs that have had their previous holes patched up, and put you on the front lines with rocks until his problem solves itself.
They will give you some free shit and people will flock like sheep. Or they will just snatch you off the street and instead of aligator Alcatraz it will be boot camp
Lol the draft isn’t going to start a civil war
They said that instituting a draft would result in starting a civil war
I forgot a very important word lol
I think I’ll go fight for the Canadians in the coming war.
if canada would cut off the oil to the USA, the usa would definitely freak out.
We’ll give you hot cocoa.
You had me at “we”.
… and the maple syrup strategic reserve
Currently, it’s still voluntary, thankfully.
But, I wouldn’t be sure considering who we’re dealing with.
Voluntary but you cant say no.
Because of the implication.
Voluntold.
It’s okay, just made a not so subtle reference to fragging. You might be locked up but you won’t be murdering some innocent child who was born the wrong color!
That’s my plan at least. Lol but the exasperated kind of lol not like a haha yknow
Dude YES I listen to this every single Thanksgiving and its the first thing that came to my mind when they mentioned a draft.
“I… I wanna KILL”
T-Squared’s Halo tips that will have you fragging like a pro.
I think you just have to grow a beard and Hegseth will be so offended/jealous he’ll discharge you
Ugh fuck I knew the goatee wouldn’t last
The issue with assuming you can use fragging as an option is how it assumes you’ll be near anyone that deserves a fragging. You’ll likely be grouped with other drafties.
There was a Vietnam era strategy where enlisting decreased one’s chances of being sent to Vietnam.
Million dollar equipment has no soul
Isn’t the “no soul” what they pay the million dollars for?
Whoever is telling me go there, do that. I’m not looking for the General Supreme himself. Fight war not wars you feel me? That hydra may have so many heads you can’t count em but I will be goddamned if I won’t swing that sword when it’s handed it to me :)
Sure. You just may find yourself surrounded by only those who were drafted, aka your fellow cannon fodder.
You’ll never meet any of the people responsible for you being there. I
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MP’s looking to enforce a draft will need to wear flak vests. The whole thing, including the bits and bobs that infantrymen typically throw away to save weight.
I’m all for the draft on one very strict condition; it has to be truly random with no way for rich kids to get mommy and daddy to buy them out of it or into a cushy assignment. When the rich kids have an equal chance of dying in oil wars, there won’t be so many oil wars.
it still wont be random, because will just target areas that dont have rich people, like only black or latin neighborhoods, and not rich ones.
That’s a terrible solution to the current problem.
I wasn’t really offering it as a solution to the current problem. I’m just saying that I don’t believe the current problem would exist if, for the past 10 years or more, rich kids were candidate fodder for the meat grinder.
WARFIGHTERS! WARFIGHTERS! WARF- puuuuuuufffffffffff gasp … … … cough cough cough ighters! Oh, hey! Heyyy!
If the draft comes, I guess this is a perk of having POTS. But I would bet being the only male I’ve ever met with it, they’re going to do all the stupid ass testing because they won’t believe my entire medical record
It’s simply amazing to me that we’re going to have to start funneling people into Canada and Mexico again to escape this stupid bullshit.
This is basically Trump emulating Putin. 100% if Operation Epstein Distraction goes poorly, they’re going to pull the same shit. And we still have (theoretically) 2.5 years of this shit to go.
cuba invasion again, is thier contigency plan if the ME doesnt go well.
Oh hey, connective tissue person too?
I don’t think they’ll care about medical issues. They’ll probably just send people with them to be canon fodder.
Postural ortho-tachycardia syndrome? If so then I as a male was also diagnosed with it as a teenager, symptoms have massively decreased with age though.
Why did Trump get rid of all of that DEI stuff again? Wasn’t the claim that it was lowering our standards? So, if that’s true, then getting rid of DEI should mean we can meet our hiring quotas while still maintaining high standards, right?
Because if they get rid of DEI and they still had to lower hiring standards for the military, just as they also recently did for the DOJ, then that’s pretty conclusive evidence that their objections to DEI were completely about bigotry and not about the competency of the candidates.
I can’t, my bone spurs hurt.
Is your daddy rich? No? Off to the front with you!
I know someone who is non reenlistable because they got drunk and did a bit of surprise cocaine the day before a surprise piss test. Wonder if they’ll ease the cocaine restriction too.
Oh thank god I turn 43 next month…really dodged the bullet or draft on that one…
i have a chronic atopic dermatitis and ibs so i wont be eligible other, i once considered it decade + ago until i developed that dermatitis problem.
The draft was already authorized to go up to 45, just hasn’t been used that high.
Wait what? I thought it was 26. Kekw
I thought it was 44, and I’m seeing examples of that happening back during WW2, such as Pvt. William S. Frederick, Sr.
Along the dusty road to Camp Gruber, forty-four-year-old Pvt. William S. Frederick, Sr., encountered his own son, twenty-year-old Pvt. William S. Frederick, Jr. Both were taxicab drivers from Olean, New York; neither had dependents; and both had been snapped up by their local draft board.
Watch them raise the age again, now it’ll probably be up to 55!
I thought I dodged the bullet myself when I learned it was previously up to 35.
“If you’re not with us, then you’ll die for us and we’ll make sure of it!” Their motto, probably.
It’s alright, just tell them you have bone spurs.
