Army trying to appeal to snowflakes

[The Spartan]

Wiser or Lazier?

Definitely not wiser and more lazier, most seem to in their own world and more concerned with either their Social Media, Gaming or being attached to their mobiles.

[Jog On]

Definitely not wiser and more lazier, most seem to in their own world and more concerned with either their Social Media, Gaming or being attached to their mobiles.

And blaming older generations for taking all the good opportunities and leaving them with a ruined environment, economy. Some truth it in but not as much as they claim - at least they've got crypto now!

[craig1]

I think you missed my point - i wasn't ever suggesting soldiers were snowflakes.. Not ever.
I have massive respect for each and every one of them.

It's the fact that they've changed their recruitment campaign to try and appeal to the softer generation.

I think it had to change, we're not in the 1970s and 80s any longer. The rather daft idea that 50% of kids should go to university has set up an entitlement view with the military being a very last choice for many.

If I were to leave school now rather than 30-ish years ago when I did, I'd have to be pretty desperate to join the army knowing how badly it has been hit with repeated cuts, benefit cuts (pensions, pay, etc.), gross increases in detached tours (when I joined it was a max of one six month detachment in 24 months, it's far worse now), morale decreases through persistent overwork and so on.

The description I heard when I joined was that the army was a toned but unflexed muscle ready to respond to anything. Right now, we're persistently flexed and have had every bit of cushioning fat, and more than a good bit of muscle itself chipped away now. Right now, we couldn't retake the Falklands if somehow the Argentinians captured it again, we can barely put together a fighting division of soldiers with less than 24 months of notice and the cuts just keep coming.

You have to advertise the army to the youth of today who aren't blindly patriotic like those in the 1910s or 1930/40s. You have to show that there's an army career there for virtually anyone who can get through basic training, from those who want to throw themselves from perfectly good planes (my lifetime goal is to make takeoffs equal landings) to HR administrator, and everything inbetween. The former are almost self-recruiting, the latter just aren't there and need every bit of recruitment help they can get.

[Jog On]

Meanwhile in Germany...

[BrilloPad]

Definitely not wiser and more lazier, most seem to in their own world and more concerned with either their Social Media, Gaming or being attached to their mobiles.

Sadly I agree.

I am not sure if it is that baby boomers have borrowed from the future and refuse to give it back. So what is the point for youngsters struggling for no return. Or if it is something else.

[The Spartan]

Meanwhile in Germany...

Mind you this jumped out at me right away

While these recruits have a limited access to weapons and cannot be sent on missions overseas

Means that our cadets are probably a lot better trained than them and more adept.

[SunnyInHades]

It's the fact that they've changed their recruitment campaign to try and appeal to the softer generation.

[greenlake]

Sign of the times - is nothing sacred.

New Army recruitment adverts 'won't appeal to new soldiers' - BBC News

How it's done in the US....

[vetran]

My brother agrees they are. ex-1para. And still some debate in the family if he turned down the SAS and took the NATO role or joined the SAS and lied to us.

Hopefully he took the NATO role, its a better pension.

[vetran]

Sadly I agree.

I am not sure if it is that baby boomers have borrowed from the future and refuse to give it back. So what is the point for youngsters struggling for no return. Or if it is something else.

well the housing is because their government (post millennium government) has overseen massive low level immigration while not building any houses. When I bought a house first time I had a choice of about 5 that were reasonable. My mates had a chance of getting a council house.

Now I am at the other end there are a few on the market at the top end. The ones at the bottom you need to earn £100k. To get a council house you need to be an orphan with 20 disabled kids.

Its not the Baby boomers that didn't build houses and welcomed immigration at 500k a year when the government didn't build any houses. So get stuffed snowflakes.