Lori Siegel

This is like Ukraine-level stuff, right?

In addition to the age requirement, the Army has removed restrictions for recruits who have a single possession of marijuana or drug paraphernalia.

Previously, that would have required a waiver from the Pentagon and the passing of a drug test.

Wait, we're not going to drug test guys who've been caught with drugs before?

What are we doing here?

You want some weed addict to be serving in the military behind a machine gun?

That's even worse.

Get them out too.

Currently, the Navy and Air Force permit recruits over the age of 40, but the Marine Corps has a maximum age of enlistment for 28.

Fiscal year 2025, the Army did see a recruiting bump following seven years of decline, but in 2022 and many of the years prior, they significantly missed a recruitment goal.

Part of the problem, I'm assuming, is that the 2025-

army recruitment bump or US military recruitment bump is not enough to make up for like a 25% deficit for years under the Biden administration.

And so having to raise the recruitment age, it's just not something I would personally do in a time of war because this was by far of all the news that's broken through, I saw this one break through the normie firewall more than anything.

People are like, wait, what?

They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

They're like, I didn't sign up for any of this.

I will say, this is personally why I support a draft, because part of the problem with a volunteer, all-volunteer military, while yes, I think it makes it much more professional, is it makes it much easier to deploy without democratic consent, and I mean of the governed.

So for example, post-Vietnam, they said, well, what was the most unpopular part of Vietnam?

The draft.

Well, let's just get rid of the draft part.