Agencies in Illinois that pay really well are having a difficult time attracting good candidates to be police officers. Other states, such as Texas, Oklahoma and Florida, are recruiting heavily in Illinois and drawing the best qualified people out of state.
Train 2 Win
Philippians 2:10-11
To argue with a person who renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. ~ Thomas Paine
“The greatest conspiracy theory is the notion that your government cares about you”- unknown.
Well, I ran into more than my share of dirtbags in the 38th ADA Bde. in ‘73-74. When I first arrived at a battery out in the middle of nowhere, troops would smoke dope in public (near the quonset hut barracks). Even though MP’s were physical security (gate guards & sentry dog handlers) I refused to put up with the dopers. As a matter of fact, the very first thing I did was escort a dirtbag to get him ready to go to the stockade and this was when I climbed off the back of a duece-and-a-half when I arrived (a very angry SSG threw a baton to me and told me to escort that prisoner). I was assigned a bunk in the same barracks as those @$$holes and among other things they burned my bunk and squirted a fire extinguisher through the louvers of my wall locker so I had to have all my uniforms cleaned. The only benefit was I learned to be a light sleeper, which I am to this day.
I don’t know if those idiots were draftees but the Army was a pretty bad place to be in those days. I extended so I could transfer to the 728th MP Bn. and the change was like night and day. I served with some of the finest men I’ve ever met. It was truly the best job I’ve ever had and I wish I would have stayed there (rather than rotating back to CONUS). When the LTC tried to coerce me into re-upping at Bragg, all I had to do was think back to that first assignment and I knew I’d NEVER want to go through that again...
Thought this was fitting...Army Drops Requirement for High School Diploma Amid Recruiting Crisis
https://www.military.com/daily-news/...ng-crisis.html
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, 1941
"A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2:
I read that.
What blew my mind was not the fact that they will take you without a HS diploma (other services like the Navy have done that before so nothing new there) but that they would take you even if you scored bottom of the barrel low on the ASVAB test.
That ASVAB test is not like the BS test that they give idiots wanting a GED. If you are breathing and can fog glass - You can pass most states GED test with flying colors. That is NOT SO with the ASVAB test. If you are an idiot and take the ASVAB - Your stupidity will show in the test results.
A few years back a young fella I met at work was telling how he just passed his test and got his GED. That idiot could NOT read simple english. No joke... But he was still able to somehow get a GED.
I do not think it is a good idea to be accepting anyone in the armed forces if they can't make a passing grade on the ASVAB. Scoring a damn 50 is NOT what I would call 'passing'. People that stupid can't be 'fixed' in my opinion.
The Army is going to have a hell of a time recruiting right now. Any (pre-rule change) qualified recruit has multiple opportunities with companies trying to hire, and at better pay than the services can muster. Add to that the Afghanistan debacle and vaccine related discharges.
At the same time, weapons systems are growing more technically complex and training opportunities are reduced by important mandatory classes and extremism investigations.
The solution seems to be recruiting Soldiers whose test scores and formal education indicate they are differently abled to the extent that existing training methodologies and planning will prove inadequate to transfer knowledge, skills, and aptitudes required to survive on the modern battlefield.
The untold story is how many recruits receive waivers from the recruiting command for drug, gang, and violence related criminal convictions.
Andy
Last edited by AndyLate; 06-26-22 at 10:51.
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