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#1 Posted:
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"…Under the new rules, a potential recruit who has completed high school or college or successfully held a job without counseling or medication for three years for ADHD would be able to enlist. That symptom-free period “is reassuring that they would make it through their initial entry training and hopefully have a successful military career,” said Army Lt. Col. Kim Helgemoe, a member of Pentagon’s Accession Policy, an office that sets medical admissions standards across the force.

A potential recruit who has in the past been treated for depression or other mental-health ailments, or has taken any medication for such conditions, can join the military only with a waiver. Those waivers can be difficult to obtain as they factor in the recruit’s health, the potential job and the requirements of the service. A recruit also may not be taking medication upon entering basic training, according to military guidelines."


https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2022/12/28/woke-and-broke-u-s-army-now-accepting-recruits-with-adhd-other-behavioral-challenges-n520398

No wonder our military recruitment is in the basement and is the embarrassment it is from the top on down. Look no further than the mess that was the Afghanistan surrender.

Get Woke, Go Broke...but these guys don't get paid that much and they're supposed to defend us? Uncle Sam better lay off the 2nd Amendment and stop the crying about guns or this nation is ripe for the picking.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,672
I didn't realize ADHD precluded one from service.

I broke my arm in two places. The doctor told me to stay out of those places
Mr. Jones Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 06-12-2005
Posts: 19,434
Those new rules....

Rule out @ least 50% of the potential peeps who are even thinking about the military...

I'm guessing? At least 45-65% of highschool grads are going to college or trade schools....

Do the math...60% of 100% leaves 40%

50% (UNQUALIFIED BY NEW RULE)of 40% leaves .....

20% who may qualify?? OUT OF THAT NUMBER WHO EVEN WANTS TO JOIN THE MILITARY NOWADAYS?

Armed forces needs mechanics big-time, base personnel, M.P.'S, DRIVERS, SPECIALIZED ADVANCED WEAPONS OPERATORS, COMPUTER PEEPS GALORE, DRONE OPERATORS...ON AND ON AND ON...
THEN YOU NEED BOOTS ON THE GROUND...GRUNTS...
OR as the command calls them "the expendables"...
( Prolly filled with mental patients and ADHD KIDS WHO GOT IN BEFORE THE NEW RULE?)
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