Tree Hugging Sister recaps the US military's long prioritization of wokeness over excellence.

Including Milley's reading list of woke propaganda. And his worry about "white rage."

Way to insult the backbone of the force, genius.

She also mentions this, which I don't even remember:

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Biden's Army Secretary Doesn't Want 2nd Gen Military Recruits for Fear of a "Warrior Caste". Her plans seek to draw in people who have no real connection to the military and to broaden the appeal of service. ⁦~ @Sultanknish

Yes, the army is so concerned about "diversity" that it turned its backs on families with up to seven generations of military service, dating back to the Revolutionary War, in favor of recruiting from families with no prior interest in the military.

Because #Diversity!

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who got her start as a Clinton intern, has a lot of thoughts on the military.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said she expects within weeks to begin drafting a proposal for a recruiting overhaul so sweeping that Congress might need to pass legislation to enact all of it.

Depending too much on military families could create a "warrior caste," Wormuth said. Her plans seek to draw in people who have no real connection to the military and to broaden the appeal of service.

There are sixth and seventh-generation military families. There is a 'warrior caste' insofar as you have families who have fought for this country since the War of Independence. They showed up, they bled, and now they're to be replaced by drag queens and identity politics quotas.

"The Army is strategically deploying recruiters to communities across the country based on demographics, ethnicity, race, and gender," Wormuth had claimed in a written statement.

Tree Hugging Sister also notes that the Army has drastically reduced its standards for recruitment:

Besides relaxing physical standards almost to the point of non-existence, starting a separate pre-bootcamp bootcamp for fat bodies who swear they want to be soldiers, allowing persons with formerly disqualifying psychiatric issues like ADHD, clinical depression, and transgender issues to enlist, and throwing bonuses into the wind, the Army still can't make their numbers.

Now, unlike leftwing incompetents who eat ideology and shit out catastrophe, you are capable of taking these data points and projecting into the future, so this will probably not shock you: The army is facing a recruiting crisis so serious it's issuing "chaotic" orders to reservists to show up for school within weeks, Thanksgiving be damned.

By the way, they've been in crisis for a long time; why did they wait until now to do anything about it?

The Army is rushing to push noncommissioned officers into its recruiting school after graduating only half the number of recruiters this year that the classes are capable of producing, according to service data reviewed by Military.com.

The eight-week Army Recruiter Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, can train a maximum of 2,866 students across a total of 53 classes. However, data shows that it graduated only 1,336 in fiscal 2023, which concluded at the end of September.

A sudden and chaotic string of orders for NCOs to immediately fill 800 seats at the recruiting school has roiled the Army in recent days. On Monday, 200 of them started classes after being given a week's notice, though some soldiers' orders to the school were canceled due to media coverage and local chains of command that were irritated by the short notice.

It's not uncommon for military schools to miss student enrollment targets. But falling so significantly short set off alarms among Army planners that the service was losing far more recruiters than it was bringing in -- amid one of the worst recruiting crises in recent memory.

As the number of soldiers responsible for getting more Americans to enlist drops dramatically, the Army remains locked in a historic struggle to bring in recruits, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. It just reported coming up 10,000 soldiers short of its goal of 65,000 new troops over the past fiscal year. Last year, it missed a goal of 60,000 soldiers by 15,000.

Oh, of course it's Covid. Covid is also why Marvel movies are bombing.

Covid is the left's all-purpose excuse for all of their many failures.

The actual shortfall in manpower could be larger.

"We're short 30,000 people in the active Army right now," Sgt. Maj. Chris Stevens, the top enlisted leader for personnel policy, said on an Army livestream Saturday, referring to the total number of soldiers the Army needs at a minimum to fill the ranks. "That's two divisions worth of people."

So facing this historic crisis, suddenly the Army is dropping its appeals to #Diversity and running ads featuring a lot of white guys:

The US Army has Bud Lighted itself. There may be no hope of regaining its former brand appeal.

God save us all.