WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.

84 points

Fucking pay them better instead

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Also, don’t start unnecessary wars based on lies.

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Maybe stop supporting genocide or sumfin

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That wouldn’t provide enough cannon fodder.

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IN THE NAVY~!

You can sail the seven seas~

IN THE NAVY~!

You don’t need a G.E.D.~

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It’s because low level enlisted is paid like shit.

And now they are recruiting from those w/o HS or GED. The people already struggling to find employement.

Poverty recruitment! Yay…

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Pay wasn’t my son’s concern. His concern in 2016 was that Trump would be his commander in chief.

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My cousin left the navy for that exact reason. Of course, she actually had to work with Trump, so I imagine that didn’t help.

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Gosh, maybe no one wants to support the military industrial complex, since we aren’t getting the American dream anymore.

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Their recruitment ads are getting laughably desperate, too–all crazy CGI and sci-fi fantasies aimed at gullible COD nerds. They almost got me (poor kid straight out of high school, I was vulnerable) and haven’t stopped chasing me ever since. It’s been like 8 years and I still get recruitment material targeted at me, somehow–one of them even texted me like a year or two ago.

Maybe if they paid better, took better care of veterans, and weren’t part of a bloodthirsty genocide machine slaughtering innocent people, they wouldn’t be having so much trouble.

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