Fair, it’s basically somewhere between school and prison so those kind of environments breed that behavior, hard to keep that many young men together doing physical effort without the hormones getting unpleasant.
Still, other countries often handle it better so it’s clearly possible, we also should raise our recruitment standards but the war on terror put paid to that.
We actually tried to raise our standards. Or rather, we stopped scraping the barrel under Obama. Biden then tried to digitalize the medical in processing. That had the effect of not allowing people to hide their previous medical adventures anymore. That’s why recruiting fell off a cliff for a couple years and all those scare mongering headlines got printed. Thankfully most of the issues were stuff they wanted to waiver in anyway, like childhood asthma that’s no longer bothering the recruit. The problem was people had to wait months for those waivers and by then they had already moved on. So now the waivers are fast and we’re filling the ranks again, with a digital system preventing real medical issues from making it through.
But yeah, they stopped the “anything breathing” policy around 2010.
Fair, it’s basically somewhere between school and prison so those kind of environments breed that behavior, hard to keep that many young men together doing physical effort without the hormones getting unpleasant.
Still, other countries often handle it better so it’s clearly possible, we also should raise our recruitment standards but the war on terror put paid to that.
We actually tried to raise our standards. Or rather, we stopped scraping the barrel under Obama. Biden then tried to digitalize the medical in processing. That had the effect of not allowing people to hide their previous medical adventures anymore. That’s why recruiting fell off a cliff for a couple years and all those scare mongering headlines got printed. Thankfully most of the issues were stuff they wanted to waiver in anyway, like childhood asthma that’s no longer bothering the recruit. The problem was people had to wait months for those waivers and by then they had already moved on. So now the waivers are fast and we’re filling the ranks again, with a digital system preventing real medical issues from making it through.
But yeah, they stopped the “anything breathing” policy around 2010.
I knew it got better after ’THE SURGE!!!', but thought the recovering economy didn’t help as there were other jobs.