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Test scores drop, disqualification rates rise at Army recruiting shops
- hindsightbias 4y agoMerican Foreign Legions should have been done decades ago.
- paulpauper 4y agoit's worth noting though that during peacetime that requirements tend to be more stringent , but obesity is a real recruitment killer.
- jleyank 4y agoGoogling reveals all services are having recruitment problems after having good retention during covid. As always, military service is inversely proportional to economic opportunities. And unfortunately for the military, people have seen what their purpose is. Safer flipping burgers if you don’t need the benefits, have trouble to avoid or have a tradition of service coupled with difficulty attending college.
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