The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the Defense Department would allow 700 individuals with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) to serve without a waiver. This might be a bad idea.
ADHD isn’t always just hyperactivity. It’s a syndrome, often including distractibility, impulsivity, and anxiety issues.
They could stop the WOKE training with their silly pronouns to gain more recruits. The military could also rehire all the experienced soldiers fired for not taking the experimental vaccine we now know causes myocardities and more and doesn’t do what they promised.
The WSJ also notes this might provide a pathway for those who have confronted “mental health or other developmental conditions.”
Oh, great.
Under the new rules, a potential recruit who has completed high school or college or successfully held a job without counseling or medication for three years for ADHD would be able to enlist.
So far, so good, but is it wise to stress them out?
That symptom-free period “is reassuring that they would make it through their initial entry training and hopefully have a successful military career,” said Army Lt. Col. Kim Helgemoe, a member of Pentagon’s Accession Policy, an office that sets medical admissions standards across the force.”
“A potential recruit who has in the past been treated for depression or other mental-health ailments, or has taken any medication for such conditions, can join the military only with a waiver. Those waivers can be difficult to obtain as they factor in the recruit’s health, the potential job, and the requirements of the service. A recruit also may not be taking medication upon entering basic training, according to military guidelines.”
Young people with the syndrome will often be very malleable to their WOKE army. The worst idea is to consider more serious mental problems.
The last time the military did this it was a failure.
“The Pentagon has previously made attempts to relax regulations, which have drawn heavy criticism. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, drug offenders and high school dropouts were permitted to enlist with waivers, which resulted in a rise in mental health problems and suicides among the troops.”
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During the Vietnam War, the military, primarily the Army, excepted anyone. It was routine for a male between 18 and 25 in trouble with the law to get a choice, Jail or the Military.
In the early 1970s, the Navy knew it needed a higher quality recruit; a Professional Sailor. The Navy even went to a professional dress uniform from 1973 to 1980. I was part of that Navy and I think it was the most Professional Navy the US has had in History in spite of President Carter. Around 1980, the Navy started going WOKE and the Professionals started bailing out. By 1984, even with greatly increased benefits, it was having recruiting problems. A professional Military can’t be bought. A professional Military is about Love of County, Comradery, and Unit Cohesion. The recruiting and retention problem was instrumental in producing one of the greatest Movies of all time; TOP GUN.
One of the dumbest things the Navy did was put Woman on Ships; they simply don’t belong there, they are a distraction and reduce readiness. The Navy tried to prove Woman where as good as Men and it has been a dismal failure. Shipboard Life is Physically and Mentally hard – extremely hard! During the late 1980s this was pushed and in the 1990s was forcibly accepted. This was pushed throughout the Military. Our Military has been in decline since! America is not ready for a serious war which is why the War with the Taliban lasted 20 years. Woman have 6 times the PTSD as Men, and probably 10 times that of the Professional Soldier. We no longer have a Military of Professionals. More and more they are WOKE Social Justice Warriors. Leaders like Bush 42 and 0Bama were also a problem, but it was Bush 41 and Clinton who put us on the path to a Military that was light in the loafers.
War is serious business; the most serious endeavor a Nation can embark on. The People manning the guns need to be disciplined and ruthless. The Officers need to be unquestioned Leaders. The Command Structure needs clear instructions from the President to Win the War as efficiently as possible; Civilian Causalities should not be a fracture if they are on the field of battle. If the enemy wants to take the Field of Battle into the Cities, that’s their choice. A truth of War is there are no Civilians. In one way or another a whole Nation goes to War. Wars are won when you break the will of the Enemy. When you place those who direct an Army (Civilians) off limits, Wars last longer killing more people. Making War more palatable for Liberals is just insane.
Ukraine is a perfect example. We are supporting the civilian population of Ukraine by supplying the Government with money to pay the Civilian Government and others who support the “effort”. Because they are not feeling the “true pain of war”, they is little incentive to work out a Peace or to Surrender.
Ukraine has been a failed Country for 30 years; it needs to fail, but the Deep State wants to keep that failed Government to enable the failure of our Government – The Constitutional Republic! The Deep States wants to replace our Government with an Un-elected Totalitarian Bureaucratic State. The Deep State must make the Military WOKE so the Military will not side with the Majority of Americans who are still decidedly Conservative.
McNamara did the same thing during the Viet Nam war and it destroyed the military…. https://bigthink.com/the-present/story-behind-mcnamaras-morons/
I support veterans who have received an honorable discharge. Others are considered on an individual basis. https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/types-of-military-discharge/#medical-separation