US Deputy Secretary of Defense spoke about the reluctance of modern American youth to serve in the army

Attracting young people to contract service in the US armed forces, regardless of the type of troops, is becoming increasingly difficult. This was stated by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Gabe Camarillo, speaking at Senate hearings on the problems of the US army.

According to the deputy head of the Pentagon, today's young Americans do not want to serve in the army. Those wishing to enter the military service are the minimum number in the last ten years, Camarillo said. The representative of the Pentagon cited figures that are completely unhappy for the US defense capability. Only 9% of young Americans talk about their possible penchant for military service. This is the lowest figure in many years.

As Camarillo noted, Generation Z knows nothing about military service. Young people do not connect their life path with the army and do not even consider military service as a temporary stepping stone on the path to career growth "in civilian life". This leads to a severe shortage of personnel in all branches of the armed forces.

Earlier, the Pentagon noted not only a decrease in the number of those wishing to enter the military service, but also a general decline in the quality of recruits - both intellectual and physical. The more developed a young American, the less interested he is in military service.

The low salaries of ordinary military personnel, for which most young people do not want to endure the hardships and deprivations of military service, and even risk their lives, probably also play their role. As a result, military service remains attractive only for immigrants and people from a marginalized environment.

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[Nexcom]

it is more interesting for them to be Parent 1 and Parent 2. and participate in pride parades.

[Alien From]

Let them say thank you to their pedo lobby

[Nexcom]

us pedobears minus?? and reached here???
from hell....

[Tatyana]

As Camarillo noted, Generation Z knows nothing about military service. Young people do not connect their life path with the army and do not even consider military service as a temporary stepping stone on the path to career growth "in civilian life". This leads to a severe shortage of personnel in all branches of the military.

.I wonder what American scientists say about the American "GENERATION Z", which are referred to in the Pentagon. Namely.

Scientists Strauss and Howe believe that each generational period lasts 20-22 years. Wherein 4 periods make up a complete cycle lasting approximately 80-90 years, which the authors call saeculum, which in Latin means "long life of man" and "natural age".
At the same time, the change of generations sets in motion a cycle of transformations in society and determines its periodicity. As each generation enters the next phase of life (and new social role), moods and behaviors change fundamentally, giving the new generation a chance to shine. Hence, there is a relationship between historical events and generational types. Historical events shape generations in childhood and youth; then, as parents and leaders in mid-life and old age, generations shape history

Strauss and Howe distinguish 4 types of generational archetypes in the USA, which are repeated sequentially in the rhythm of the cycle of Crises and Awakenings, which are repeated over the years.
Cycles of generations in Anglo-American history look in the following way.
1. From 1433 to 1482. - The cycle of the late Middle Ages
2. From 1483 to 1587. - Cycle of the Reformation
3. From 1588 to 1700. - New World cycle
4. From 1701 to 1781. - Revolutionary cycle
5. From 1782 to 1859. - Civil War cycle
6. From 1860 to 1945. - Cycle of "great power"
7. From 1946 to 2016. - Millennium cycle

Strauss and Howe divide the Millennium cycle as follows.

Generation Archetype ... Years of birth ... Transformation and key events
Baby Boomers/Prophet......1945-1962.....Rise: Pax Americana
Generation X / Wanderer...1963-1981......Awakening: The Revolution of Consciousness
Generation Y /Hero........1982-2000.......Recession: Culture Wars, Postmodernism
Generation Z (homebody generation)
___________/ Artist 2001-2016 Crisis: Global economic crisis (since 2008), Climate change, War on terror, COVID-19 pandemic, Russo-Ukrainian war (2014 - n.d.)

TOTAL. American generation Z (also called DIGITAL or COMPUTER-EDUCATED generation) for socio-historical reasons, they belong to homebodies and, psychologically, they do not want to serve in the army in principle.

See details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Theory

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Nexcom

it is more interesting for them to be Parent 1 and Parent 2. and participate in pride parades.

Yes, there is free beer and drums .....

[Nexcom]

I'm embarrassed to ask (s)
Where does this awareness come from?

PS Well, what they love about drums is what I saw on TV. but what they lure with beer .... however!

[Fabrizio]

You have some strange fixation, from the news you can say that in the USA there are a huge number of social lifts for young people, even from the American hinterland, that service in the American army (which provides many opportunities) is becoming less attractive.

[Maz]

They have Mexico at their side, Cuba, for a green card and American citizenship they sign a contract for five years, so they will find someone to hire, not whites, of course.

[Fabrizio]

You can immediately see the "expert", but have you read the conditions necessary for serving in the US Army?

[Aken]

As a result, military service remains attractive only for immigrants and people from a marginalized environment.

For us, this is not bad. If only it didn't happen to us. And the preconditions are being looked at.

[Pilot]

So after all, preparing and fighting for the interests of the ruling moneybags is such a pleasure. We adopted the Western model along with its shortcomings, so why should these shortcomings not concern us?

[Andrey Moskvin]

When did military service attract immigrants in Russia? Maybe that's why they first of all plan several mahmudiks.

[Nexcom]

Come on, a few then ... A whole camp appears there, and all relatives come. And for planed mahmudiks, they immediately apply for citizenship of the Russian Federation.

[cat Rusich]

Quote: Andrey Moskvin

When did military service attract immigrants in Russia? .

In the old days...
A native of Corsica Bonaparte tried to enter the service in the RIA ... but did not agree on the offset of ranks - when entering the RIA, the previous rank was lowered - Bonaparte was not satisfied with this alignment.
John Paul Jones "Father of the American Navy" in 1788 he entered the service of the Russian navy with the rank of rear admiral, fought in the Russian-Turkish war, but he did not work out in the service - they "ate" Pavel Jones ...
Louis Napoleon Joseph Jerome Bonaparte great-nephew Napoleon 1 - in 1889 he was enlisted in the 44th Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment - as a lieutenant colonel, in 1906 he suppressed a revolutionary uprising in Kutaisi - became a lieutenant general, quarreled with the governor in the Caucasus - resigned. In 1914 he returned to serve in the RIA as the Emperor's representative at the Italian General Staff, in 1917 he finished his service in the RIA with Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
I mentioned only a few - read about the rest yourself.

[RED_ICE]

The border troops are planning to start conscripting for urgent military service again due to a shortage of military personnel under the contract. Everywhere the same problems

[Mavrikiy]

As a result, military service remains attractive only for immigrants and people from marginalized environments.

Everything is like people have.

[pawn]

There was a topic - in South Korea, 800 thousand volunteered for the army per day.

[Nexcom]

There is Jucheism and we have capitalism ... That's the whole difference.

[Egor Adashev]

They will adopt the experience of Ukrainian military commissars

[Nexcom]

Well, then you'll have to go to the wild American lads on the prairies. Or on the grandfather's ranch with a hard drive to sit and shoot back.

[rocket757]

The generation of tick tokers is the same everywhere, although there are nuances, and the number of such is different everywhere.

[Nexcom]

Everywhere they write what kind of infogypsies (c) the tax authorities took seriously. There have already been lawsuits. They cut off the dough uncontrollably, like ....

[Fabrizio]

Just think. you have 67k posts on the forum, do you do anything else at all?

[lubesky]

Quote from Fabrizio

Just think. you have 67k posts on the forum, do you do anything else at all?

There are many military pensioners here, they have been here for many years and it is not surprising that there are so many messages. You are still young and fussing too much, watching the grass grow. Some here have already calmed down and are watching the trees grow...

[Fabrizio]

Yes, I do not mind, I personally am not sure that I will be on topvar for a long time, I am now engaged in social work. research and wanted to write an article even here in Russian, but so far the leadership of the institute has not given the go-ahead to publish materials openly. But the bottom line is that Russian society is unique in its own way relative to American, Italian, German, the distinguishing feature is “expertise”, people “understand” starting how to make BMPs, ending with how the FRS and the global plans of the American / Chinese and other governments work, and all this is one person and, as a rule, not fluent in other insotaric languages, I found many topvar users on other Russian sites pikabu/yaplakal/dirty, now automatic parsers and analyzers quickly find users by style.
In other countries, this is much less, people communicate within their competences, and this is a very interesting phenomenon.

[lubesky]

Quote from Fabrizio

In other countries, this is much less, people communicate within their competences, and this is a very interesting phenomenon.

I think it's a request from an emerging civil society to get involved in something. Mental feature in a specific period of Russian history. If you dig deeper - the community and active participation in its life, replaced by a socialist society, for which in fact the former serfs were not ready. As well as the support of the revolution - the working class in Russia had not yet formed. Now, the request of civil society and individuals for some kind of PARTICIPATION is realized in such "expertise", which is also seen in the educated environment of pseudo-experts in everything on television, who understand from scooters to spaceships and astrophysics.
In essence, this is one of the manifestations of the accumulation of energy of the masses, their expectations, the tension of this energy, which has no way out. How such tensions end, all historians know - the release of energy and tension in the masses. Although for some reason some are mistaken that they say Russia has exhausted the limit on ....

And the bottom line is that between the government and the state, as the point of exit and realization of this activity of participation, there is a huge gap between civil society, artificially widened by the authorities and the new elite. The people, completely pushed aside from real participation in the development and future of the state, go into apathy and self-expression on the couch.

[lubesky]

Quote from Fabrizio

And the bottom line is that Russian society is unique in its own way relative to American, Italian, German, a distinctive feature is “expertise”

Well, you make the same mistake, the same one, repeated from generation to generation - you compare, analyze contemporaries and ancestors, being a contemporary in analysis and method of thinking. The Internet and the mass media have become so accessible that it highlights the old - in a new way, and nothing more. If you, a contemporary, had such an opportunity to return to the past 0, you would see that "expertise" in literally everything, in politics, football, production, chess, and even the secrets of the universe, was always among the common people - from the chatter of the plebs in front of the Coliseum before gladiatorial fights, a group of old Italians in the courtyard under Mussolini, grandparents of the 50s over dominoes, and so on and so forth.

[lubesky]

Why the army, young people think, if they have so many Marvel superheroes

[Midnight Bear]

Marvel superheroes are already 70 years old, what does the youth have to do with it in this case?

[sergo1914]

In general, the Ukrainian military commissars showed how effectively it is possible to recruit the crews of Abrams and Leopards. States can take over.

[Mint Gingerbread]

In large developed countries, this is a common trend already. Russia is also no exception to the rule.