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The number of people in the Guard/Reserve that have reached out to me have grown quickly after this article was published. Our strategic reserve is going to have a major retention problem and is being burned down. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/special-re...

adamkinzinger.comSpecial Report: Anonymous Q&A With Deployed SoldierI talk with a member of our armed forces about the challenges of this current deployment and the need for direction in our present military efforts.

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I remember those days. Recruiters made their quotas on Monday mornings at the courthouse & jail. Seal their records, get them in. Most of those guys were cannon fodder; then the military got smart. Sometimes a person would straighten their life out; most not

Treat people like dirt, don't pay them, demand the indefensible, ask them to break their oath and their common decency .... Retention: no one in their right mind would volunteer for the military under this President, under this Secretary of DOD. Old AF medic/recruiter; I wouldn't either.

We have found an appropriate destination for those overly enthusiastic ICE agents. They could be our boots on the ground in the Middle East. Take your shock gloves with you agents. 😉

Just wait until they try to use their education benefits, and the VA tells them their service isn't available to the VA because DoD has NEVER PROVIDED RESERVIST OR GUARD SERVICE TO THE VA AS SUBSTANTIATED BY OSC ON 1/12/22.

The long erratic and abusive deployment is on purpose! It’s to create chaos in a system this regime wants to break.That is the working relationship between the civilian employer and the employee of a National Guard soldier! Employers will let those in the National Guard go eventually. Cont …

Transforming them into full time soldiers for Trumps Regime! That's the decision a National Guardsman will have to make, soldier or continued employment in the civilian world?

And the ones who will remain and have access to all the tools of war will be the KKKristofascists who understand that this is finally their opportunity to get deployed domestically to subjugate liberals and POC and establish permanent ethno-theocratic apartheid if they just wait for it.

the MA NG is completely inept, which is a good thing if Trump tried to deploy them but a bad thing if the public actually needed them for something. Ineptitude, apparently, trickles (in this case gushes) down from the top. Everyone with a brain wants out asap

Reservists are more likely to be needed by state Governors when trying to deal with emergencies of any type. Such as, defending their citizens from ICE, enforcing the results of elections, etc. If you have nefarious plans, destroying any civilian force that could stop you is a priority strategy.

when the job market gets tough HS grads have the sad tendency to enlist as it’s a paycheck, if they marry the HS sweetheart they get housing, mom gets to shop at the exchange, recruitment goals were met this yr, will need for a job matter more than morale or are we creating a military of resentment

He's sending out 1000 federal agents to polling locations. Which I'm not sure what he can accomplish with that. I imagine he wants to screw with polling locations for key races but Susan Collins is one of their biggest races and there's around 450ish polling locations in Maine alone. 🤷‍♂️

It seems Trump and Hegseth are treating our soldiers and ships like they are playing with battleship game moving pieces on a board. Time to tell Trump, Hegseth and Republican congress to become adults& treat our family members in service like they are important and not pieces on a game board.

You clowns. Get your Texas buddies to drill baby drill. Except you don’t have anything to drill. Now you just steal, rape and pillage. Operation normal for the USA. Just an observation

But we need this... If you want Trump gone and all the people behind him gone, let people fear for their kids in military service. And a military draft that will affect MAGA kids too. It will change the direction of society. I'm going to pop some corn on that day.

It’s not only about the military that he doesn’t care about but also his ungrateful subjects. He cares more about golfing than anything else. The reason for not going at ground zero and choosing the Pentagon instead making it easier for him to get to Doonbeg Irlande right after the ceremony.

Trump is about establishing a legacy that can't be erased during these four years. That includes trying to get as wealthy as possible.

The reservists are simply being abused by a crackpot who cares nothing about anyone but his lust for power and food for his ego. He has wasted manpower as well as weaponry so that he could somehow outdo what Obama accomplished. The whole world is paying. Impeach him NOW!

This is the fault of Kegsbreath & drumpf.They’ve degraded our military & its munitions with their not very smart decisions to go to war.They must have gotten rid of all the smart people that think things through. And there’s nobody left now smart enough to figure out how to end the war.

Are they actually doing so on purpose to help Putin & other US enemies? After all, Trump & all his mates want to destroy democracy.They actually are traitors to their own country. Hard to know if they are just idiots, or useful idiots for the likes of Putin.

Then you’ll be relieved to know that they automatically enrolled my 18 year old son in Selective Service a month before the law authorizing that was actually passed and they are mailing actual draft cards again.

Yep. I registered 36 years ago. And I didn’t even know that I had a draft number until applied for a security clearance. (For the record both of his grandfathers volunteered before they could get drafted).

Oh, I wouldn't worry about retention. I'm sure that this regime has a plan. It might include charging anyone who won't serve more with treason. It might include fining them into acceptance. Don't worry so much....

Just another way Trump is intentionally and systematically destroying the country, presumably under the orders of his owners. Whether it's for money, kompromat, or both remains an open question.

Long term pain, the type that will have to be dealt with long after Le Grand Cheetoh is out of office/dead. Hopefully the latter.

They only want hardcore loyalists. They don’t need much manpower. Withdraw from every other country so they can do what they really want to do - wage war on infidels inside US borders. They’re building the infrastructure now. Flock cams, robo dogs, the bunker. We’re going behind the orange curtain.

The National Guard is likely filled with civilians who need the extra income, are willing to do domestic community work, but not necessarily looking to be involved in an actual war.

I'm a little slow at times but this along with the fact trump out of the blew made a statement of best recruiting numbers in yrs blah blah should have immediately made me say oh, so recruiting is down and probably by quite a bit. But again, sometimes I'm slow

Does Trump's demand for National Guards to be "monitoring" polling locations, mean that they will be required to pull Republican guardsmen for the "duty", in order to get the results they want?

Been there done that , I served under Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and these fucking idiots are copying putin, having yes men , he's losing horribly, Hitler did the same , shot himself, trump, be like Hitler

The irony of a draft dodging president reintroducing the draft is somewhat overwhelming. About time perhaps,for an epidemic of bone spurs, in the new generation he is ready to sacrifice??? And for what exactly?

Of course, the National Guard incubated and hatched notables like pete kegsbreath and lee anyway-the-wind-blows-money zeldin. Reform and rebuild has an opportunity here.

Again. The absolute finest military ever on earth is being sabotaged by Trumposhenko, possibly as a favor to Putin. There has been no military organization equivalent to the U.S. Military. Remember, Trumposhenko calls veterans "suckers and losers". I hope our men and women stay strong thru this.

Our National Guard and military are being stretched out to the point of no return, due to their unlawful usage here and overseas. And they are being led by a defense secretary who has no clue as to how to lead or how to treat people. He and the president are an embarrassment.

History would point to a great big hell yes. The reason is fascist dictatorship wannabe pedophile billionaire leadership. Hate is a hellova drug. But the Iran-Epstein War Excursion was justified for needed distraction. Another Excursion is going to happen. October surprise.

You as well as many other veterans know, this administration has and is continuing to destroy our military with surgical precision, they are set to reduce our national defense and security. We must stop this ASAP‼️ Our nation is in peril, so are its citizens!

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Is this a specific strategy to reduce the guard numbers so that government can replace them withgun-for-hire militia? Complete disregard for our troops is not without the cause/effect. The dots were connected on purpose.

Pardon me for saying so, but the current direction of your military seems to be engaging in theatre for the benefit of the President with no regard for cost and the only consideration for the troops being one of domestic optics.

Good, we need a standing defensive force, not over a million soldiers so we can invade multiple countries at the same time and still afford to just treat soldiers like cannon fodder. We haven't even put boots on the ground in Iran but there is already 19 dead and 756 wounded US soldiers.

This is awful to hear about. Retention was already bad when I exited during the GWOT era due to over-deployment, extensions, and generalized incompetence in the way the Reserve was run. With Trump making everything so much worse though, it'll probably lead to a huge retention & recruiting crisis.

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I would not enlist in the U.S. military at this point. I have persuaded some family members and friends not to enlist.The last friend that I helped get enlisted in the Navy was about 6 years ago. He left the military due to an injury and recently said he’s glad he’s ineligible to return to service.

I've said this in other posts before, but now it appears that I horrifyingly right. We're seeing the beginnings of the return of the hollow army. And this time, we may not be able to undo it.😢

A demoralised army will be weaker and those who can do so, will walk out. All great news for US enemies. Mind you, probably great news for the oligarchs hellbent on destroying democracy & who may well want to destroy the US. Is it what Trump wants too or is he manipulated?

The entire military both active-duty and reserve forces is facing a serious problem with personnel attrition. This is what happens when empty rhetoric no longer convinces anyone. It is truly a tragedy; the lack of respect shown for their service is simply unacceptable.

Trump, Hegseth & Co. haven't really been selling the US armed forces as a great career choice. Get treated as bullet fodder on the president's whim; have your family thrown into a concentration camp; go hungry on excessive tours; be punished if you try to kill yourself... Not looking good at all.

Anything destroyed well is destroyed from within. This has been the objective of Project 2025, Miller, Theil and others for a long time. Put incompetents such as Trump and Hegseth in charge and human nature would do the rest. LOL

The beginning of the Vietnam War actually came with modest public backing. Iran is by far the least popular war in US history (to US citizens). I imagine a draft would go over like a lead balloon. 🤷‍♂️✌️