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1. Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 23:14:18 JST Judge Dread
   aaaaaaand the US Army met their recruiting goals the old fashioned way: by lowering standards!
   
   The Army expects to meet its enlistment goals for 2025, marking a dramatic turnaround for a service that has struggled for several years to bring in enough young people and has undergone a major overhaul of its recruiting programs.
   
   In an interview with The Associated Press, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the Army is on pace to bring in 61,000 young people by the end of the fiscal year in September and will have more than 20,000 additional young people signed up in the delayed entry program for 2026. It’s the second straight year of meeting the goals...
   
   In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2024, the Army met its recruiting goal of 55,000 and began to rebuild its delayed entry pool. About 24 percent of those recruits came out of the prep course. Wormuth said she expects it will contribute about 30 percent of this year’s recruits...
   
   Instead, a significant driver of the recruiting success was the Army’s decision to launch the Future Soldier Prep Course, at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in August 2022. That program gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards and move on to basic training.
   
   https://www .pbs .org/newshour/politics/army-to-meet-2025-recruiting-goals-in-dramatic-turnaround-denies-wokeness-is-factor
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   • Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 23:14:17 JST Judge Dread

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     • Seattle_Guy
     @Seattle_Guy I guarantee along with remedial training they have lowered standards. You can't turn a tub of lard into an athlete in a few weeks.
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   • Seattle_Guy (seattle_guy@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 23:14:18 JST Seattle_Guy

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     @judgedread I know where these kids are going, so I'm not a fan. But is having preschool for boot camp a bad idea? The schools fuck and probably don't have any PT standards to graduate.