Just use the ICE agents for this. They already have all the gear.
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Oh shit I'm in the age bracket again? at least I'm trans I guess 🤷
It's the meaning of life, the universe and everything?
They think endless war is the solution to the question of life, the universe, and everything.
I thought that answer was 42?
It's almost like the younger generations don't feel keen to join whatever misadventure their nation wants to go on during their service. Especially given the high likelihood that they'll be involved in supporting/committing fairly unambiguous war crimes and genocide. They've also watched generation after generation of veterans get sold down the river... how could they resist.
[The younger generations] also watched generation after generation of veterans get sold down the river…
General Benjamin Button probably wouldn't work out, anyway.
not enough fools willing to die for the Epstein cause?
They wanted to make sure don jr could serve /s
Jesus fucking christ. Most people who are 42 actually look and act like it. This won't end well.
For instance I'm 29 and I do not have the body of a soldier. Never have, probably never will.
I had the body of a soldier, but it took too much space in the freezer.
Yeah, I didn't want to die for an idiot government in my 20s, but now I don't want to and am not getting up and into a warzone. I'm too old for this shit and I'm already in my pajamas. And my feetsies hurt from walking too much and I'm full of cheese.
I don't care if a bunch of self-delusional 40 year old MAGAs think they're tough enough to go kill all those weak Iranians, and end up getting themselves killed. The more the merrier, as far as I'm concerned.
Canada's enlistment age has been up to 50 for quite some time now. Basic gets you into shape... Or it doesn't, and you fail out.
In the grand scheme of things this really doesn't seem like a big deal. I think it's newsworthy because it reflects a clear anxiety in the US Military about their inability to fill their recruitment numbers, but beyond that It's not really all that unusual.
Well they already ditched/reduced a bunch of training last year.
Why would you need mentally sound solders…
Additionally, resiliency training has been removed entirely from the list of training tasks necessary for readiness. The training instructed troops on stress-coping measures for everything from individual challenges to dealing with family stress during deployments.
And that's an actual problem. That's kind of my point; why are people fixating on largely meaningless things like recruitment age, instead of very real problems like ditching mental resiliency training?
My body looks the right shape at almost 50, but my knees and shoulders would be fucked carrying the loads they require in infantry training. Probably also my back.
Good news is you don't need very much training to be drone fodder.
They can change enlistment age ranges that require little to no ID requirement but they demand very strict ID requirements for voting. They are telling us how they think of us as meat crayons.
People who vote, might end up voting for the “wrong candidate”, and we can’t have that now can we. People who enlist, don’t really have the opportunity to screw up like that.
Kill all the bugs!!
Somewhat relieved and disappointed I missed the cut. At my age, at this moment, I would consider it a sign from God if I got drafted. Hegseth and I worship different Gods I should add.
Exploiting poor millennials aka millennials.
Jesus fuck, I wonder if the reenlistment age went up too? Apparently now I could enlist for a first time, even if I hadn't before. I can't imagine doing that shit at my age.
I just turned 40 a few months ago. Luckily I'm Canadian and live in the UK, so this doesn't affect me....however my knees and back ache just thinking about it....
A comment up above says that in Canada the age limit is 50.
Good thing I live in the UK then
Hell I'm 26 and my knee aches at the concept of this. I could probably ignore it but it still wouldn't be fun.
My knee is fucked from a badly judged jump in boy scouts when I was 14 or something, word of advice don't blindly jump through bushes there may be a perfectly angled rock sitting there waiting to fuck you up.
word of advice don't blindly jump through bushes there may be a perfectly angled rock sitting there waiting to fuck you up.
Oh, you sweet summer child. There's no "may be" about it. It's there, yearning for blood!
You can still die. Thats all they need from you.
Meh, they can get fucked. I'll Conscientious Objector, or resort to sabotage. I'll fight for the abolition of the state, or against a US invasion of Canada on my own, but I'll never willingly be a foot for the Imperialist boot.
War profiteering. Follow the money
It would make sense to reverse the enlistment age so they'd start from the oldest and the lower it.