Well lets see, two direct recruiting attempts.You do know that most people in college go Officer right because that is more appealing to college people.
And people often go into yhe military because it offers free college before they go.
And Bacle, have you ever talked to recruiters who actually care about thier job?
Because do you have any actual experience with anything military outside of what you hear on media?
And you do know that the stuff for Vietnam was more akin to that of the media and the country turning its back on the soldiers.
I work woth guys straight out of high-school.
The military offers better chances for them to he able to start ahead of thier peers even for one contract.
A soldier who for instance, does 17C. Right out of high-school.
Boom, ethical hacker and a whole bunch of certs, for free.
We have high-school to flight school. Boom, free pilots license.
Military is more interesting for highschoolers then college because it allows them to get ahead of peers for less money spent and most likely more money gained...
Edit: hell, recruiting college students is part of why the military has had woke issues.
One when I just got out of college, and was working in a deli and had three guys in uniform come into to get groceries and try to recruit me while I was prepping meat for sandwiches. Oddly, my manager was an Army mom, and she told them to stop poaching her skeleton crew.
One last year where I was cold texted by some recruiter who's intel/coordination officer's updates were so bad they thought I was still in college. Completely ignored that, despite repeated attempt at 'Hey we have this dicord, hey we have this chatroom, hey here are these links to materials you might like (because you aren't reply to my cold texts)'. Almost texted back his intel officer had outdated info, but decided not to, didn't want to show any interest or interaction from my end.
Multiple extended family in the Air Force at officer and enlisted level, mostly retired or medically discharged now, and merchant marines and USAAF in my grandparents generation, and on odd Marine or Airman out in the 3rd cousins.
And that's not counting stories from the disgruntled vets I worked along side in the CO legal cannabis industry.
Veitnam was DC turning it's back on it's own citizens to help France try to keep their colony, the media just told facts about it that the DoD would have preferred not gone public, and the public did not owe the troops 'support' for an unpopular and unjust war.
And yet in the article itself, the Secretary of the Army herself said Veitnam views and issues with it still persist among adults who are raising and teaching the youth the military wants to recruit, and still have power to turn off recruits.Apparently the average parents aren't even on the radar there, only teacher's unions and a particular kind of activist parents. Look at the issues raised...
My point exactly. But apparently the interest in that is not big, it's just people with lots of power in schools wanting to remove those they don't like and invite far more questionable ones instead as they like those.
Will recruiters of any profession, movement or organization ever do that?
For one, in case of military specifically, looks like the teachers and many others are just lining up to tell them the other side of the story.
On the other hand, will teachers who advocate for colleges and certain kind of courses do that?
I think military recruiters are a complete non-issue compared to the internal problem US education system has with activist teacher base's "who will guard the guards" style problem.
So where are they supposed to recruit the enlisted? People in colleges are interested in finishing the college and are going to be hardly interested in enlisted work due to the qualifications they are just in process of getting for money already spent there if nothing else.
Military kinda needs to have lots of enlisted personnel, any military, ever.
Dude, Vietnam was almost 60 years ago. More than Vietnam was separated from friggin WW1. Lots have changed in warfare since then. Nevermind that the most unpopular deal with Vietnam was draftees, not recruitment.
That doesn't sound like Veitnam is nearly as irrelevant and out of the recruiting picture as the military would like, and the military is going to have to deal with the fact the Veitnam legacy isn't going away, just because they are aiming to recruit people to young to remember it.
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