{"id":309648,"date":"2019-05-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=309648"},"modified":"2019-05-23T13:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:34:26","slug":"why-have-military-recruiting-standards-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/17\/why-have-military-recruiting-standards-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have Military Recruiting Standards Changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We have Rose in Visalia, California. Welcome to the program. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019ve always wanted to have the opportunity to ask a question real quick. Why has the military gone so strong on their policies for enlisting people? My thing is, my husband and his buddies were in during the late seventies, early eighties. Some of them were overweight. They\u2019d get them in there; they\u2019d work that weight off of them. If they underscored on the tests, they\u2019d help them get to that point where they needed to be. Now in the eighties… My son, his buddies tried to get in. Some of them were overweight; they won\u2019t take them now.<\/p>\n

If they underscore that test, they won\u2019t take them, and they won\u2019t give them that opportunity to try to fix that so they can get in there. It\u2019s really what a lot of these young men have wanted to do all their lives, and they\u2019re not college-bound, and they don\u2019t have much of a choice. So getting in the military was like a lot of their dreams and, you know, they do the body fat now. So if you\u2019re this much over, you have to go get it off yourself, and a lot of these young men lose hope. I know we want the best and the finest in there, but we used to be able to make them the best and the finest.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought you were asking me a different question. I thought your question was of a different nature. But I can still answer this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a good question. I mean, you\u2019re asking if… I\u2019ve just talked about the military and so forth and our involvement here with MC-LEF<\/a> and the little promotion we have going on here. It\u2019s all about efficiency. Back in the days you were talking about, if you were overweight, they still took you, sent you to boot camp, gave you a chance. It all has to do, in large part, with the number of people volunteering. If they can meet the recruitment needs with people who are already in shape, for example, who are already doing well enough on intelligence tests, then they\u2019ll take them.<\/p>\n

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If they\u2019re not meeting recruitment needs, then they\u2019ll relax standards and so forth. It has nothing to do with being cold-hearted or hard hearted. It has to do with efficiency. It has to do with the amount of time. Boot camp is bad enough as it is. They don\u2019t want to take people where half of them are gonna be washing out. They want people that they judge can get through it and move on to the next phase, and the belief is that if you really want to be in the military — if that\u2019s what you really want to do — you\u2019re not gonna show up as Jabba the Hutt.<\/p>\n

If you really want to do this, you\u2019re gonna have some idea what it\u2019s gonna take, and you\u2019re gonna make some effort to be ready and qualified when you show up. Education is a different thing. That\u2019s something that happens for everybody in the military, at least an opportunity that is presented. I thought you were asking me why they relaxed physical standards rather than tighten them, and there\u2019s an answer to that, too. But it\u2019s probably a good thing that I don\u2019t have time to tell you right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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