US Army Struggles Recruiting New Troops Because of Endless Wars, What A Big Surprise

Army recruiters are having a challenging time convincing Americans born between 1995 and 2005 to sign up and serve. The situation is so dire that Army Recruiting Command has turned to e-Sports video game tournaments.

“It is incredible, the amount of coverage that you get and the amount of the Z Gens that are watching these games,” Gen. Frank Muth, the head of Army Recruiting Command, told NPR.

Sponsoring video game tournaments is an effort to boost recruitment after the Army fell short of its 76,500 recruitment goal by 6,500 people last year.

“Calling the Z generation on the phone doesn’t work anymore,” Gen. Muth told NPR. “We’re really giving the power back to our recruiters to go on Twitter, to go on Twitch, to go on Instagram, and use that as a venue to start a dialogue with the Z generation.”

NPR noted that a recent e-Sports tournament featured an Army recruiter as an announcer and went viral with more than 2 million views, adding that "Half [the views] were from people aged 17 to 24."

To further implement the strategy, the Army is now screening more than 4,000 applications from soldiers who want to play video games.

Army Recruiting Command will select 30 of the service's top gamers to be on the new Army e-Sports Team to compete in national gaming tournaments.

Generation Z soldiers are part of this subculture, according to Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Jones, a noncommissioned officer overseeing the Army e-sports Team.

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The Brits tried that sort of nonsense and it was cringey as shit and will not do a fucking thing.

I hate this buzzword.

You know what happens when governments want to enslave their citizens and get involved in endless wars? Normfags no longer want to be a part of any of that anymore. And THAT is what is happening, all around the Western world!

would you prefer "the campaign memed across the internet"

don't worry it'll just change to be more like god's chosen and mandatory

Yah, and then you have a shit load of expats and draft dodgers again. Rightfully so. People are sick of these endless wars. They are a waste of our tax payer money and a waste of innocent lives too. Fuck the MIC.

they don't want to be molded into brainless ZOGbots? good for them :)
hopefully this is because the youth are waking up, not just getting more lazy and apathetic

I think that would be more than a little presumptive. Youth lately are just more likely to be red pilled thanks to various online subcultures. And that is reinforced by seeing how retarded their Millennial parents are. It makes them one of the most informed generations ever, which makes it harder to coerce them into doing stuff that is against their best interests. But they are still children and extremely naive. I think the relatively higher amount of red pilled individuals of this generation is a big part of the push to destroy underground cultures and push them as far into the fringes as possible. Part of that is the influx of SJW faggots into the game industry to push liberal thought into games. Along with being posted as admins in nearly every online space.

Likely both, face it, still plenty of lazy retards out there too.