tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5859274965959017025..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Only 1 in 4 youths good enough to enlist in the militaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13100485047557046612009-11-06T17:06:35.374-08:002009-11-06T17:06:35.374-08:00Thanks Dutch Boy,
Whiskey usually goes to ground ...Thanks Dutch Boy,<br /><br />Whiskey usually goes to ground for a while after he gets caught lying and making things up. I don't know what he does during the down time. Watches superhero movies, I assume.robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64326559400678979792009-11-06T14:10:33.246-08:002009-11-06T14:10:33.246-08:00Dear Whiskey: The NRA was created as a result of p...Dear Whiskey: The NRA was created as a result of poor marksmanship among Civil War soldiers (not WW I). New Union regiments lost about 25% of their numbers prior to battle (screening of recruits being sketchy in those days and camp diseases ubiquitous). BTW - I want to apologize for my previous comment about today's Sad Sack yoots: Pvt. Sack actually qualified for the WW II army and thus was way ahead of most of our current yoots.Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22129164462470658872009-11-06T13:05:55.591-08:002009-11-06T13:05:55.591-08:00It's really an 8 year commitment now? Yikes, n...<i>It's really an 8 year commitment now? Yikes, no wonder they're having trouble recruiting.</i><br /><br />The minimum enlistment term remains two years. (Longer if you want to maximize bonuses though.) The total eight year commitment comes from time spent in the inactive reserve. And yes, stop-loss orders mean you may have to serve more than your term, but its not eight years of active duty.<br /><br />And I'm not so sure they are having trouble recruiting in an absolute sense. In the context of recruiting minorities and women they are, but even there, only because they're laboring under a kind of soft, unstated quota system. If anything, if they were free to abandon that and not worry about proportional representation, they could afford to tighten standards even further. The whole value of a volunteer military lies in the superiority of quality over sullen quantity.Dave R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19075602662971459412009-11-06T12:11:59.298-08:002009-11-06T12:11:59.298-08:00Rounding up the dumbest people in the country and ...<b>Rounding up the dumbest people in the country and sending them off to war to get killed SOUNDS like a good idea, but the odds of actually dying are low.</b><br /><br />That's what Xtreme sports are for. The government doesn't get the blame, and skateboards are cheap.<br /><br />But if we really wanted to kill off the dumb people, why not just legalize meth?<br /><br /><b>So joining the army should tend to reduce Darwinian fitness, even given relatively low casualty rates.</b><br /><br />Well we used to make up for that by letting them rape people in the invaded countries. It also solves another problem - instead of driving your enemies out, you breed them out.Jimmy Crackedcornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19180569233984622072009-11-06T11:58:15.362-08:002009-11-06T11:58:15.362-08:00@Jody - a requirement of benchpressing one's b...@Jody - a requirement of benchpressing one's bodyweight is itself shortsighted. I was a varsity QB, played freshman baseball in a maj. conf., have been swimming 5 days a week for the last 20 years, and at no time could I benchpress more than 70% of my 175 bodyweight.alonzo portfolionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5167754594577839492009-11-06T11:07:15.290-08:002009-11-06T11:07:15.290-08:00Rounding up the dumbest people in the country and ...Rounding up the dumbest people in the country and sending them off to war to get killed SOUNDS like a good idea, but the odds of actually dying are low. It would also be a PR disaster if there were all these dumbasses in Iraq and Afghanistan committing crime, and getting equipment worth millions of dollars wrecked or lost.MacSweeneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89559462960380114522009-11-06T10:49:18.077-08:002009-11-06T10:49:18.077-08:00Anonymous--
The sources for quotes regarding fema...Anonymous--<br /><br />The sources for quotes regarding female deficiencies in body strength, and in a multitude of categories are too numerous to mention. Start out with Kingsley Browne's "Co-Ed Combat," then follow up by using his scores of citations of studies undertaken by specialists in gender physiological and psychological differences. Another good book is "Why Men Earn More," Warren Farrell. "The Kinder Gentler Military," by Stephanie Gutmann arrives at similar conclusions, but in a kinder, gentler way. <br /> It has been long known, and should be easily sourced that the army was developing small hand grenades for women to throw at the enemy because the standard deviation in throwing ability between men and women is an astronomical 4.0. <br /> Young men should think it over at least four times before they join today's military. The double standard stinks to high heaven.Christohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14928591764002104733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83260538873075277392009-11-06T10:13:37.868-08:002009-11-06T10:13:37.868-08:00My advice to white kids - stay the hell out of the...<i>My advice to white kids - stay the hell out of the military - No matter what. Find anything else to do.</i><br /><br />God bless you. I'm glad you made it out. How to convince these kids that they are not protecting this country? They are losing body parts, and having their lives turned upside down, or dying, for nothing, nothing, nothing!Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06823851448364528821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65834246743651267452009-11-06T07:49:23.636-08:002009-11-06T07:49:23.636-08:00We are proud that only the BEST of our youth are s...We are proud that only the BEST of our youth are sent to fight, kill, get maimed, or die.<br /><br />To defend what? The dreg males at home?<br /><br />Why not protect and defend the nation a little better than that and only send losers, slackers, weirdoes, criminals, gang members and other Darwinian expendables - if it's a war? Chess players are smarter: they send the pawns in first and they protect the elite pieces. Yet our genetic elite - our best men - have traditionally been the first to die in "protective" wars. Whom are we really protecting?<br /><br />If we could reduce war to two dumb fatass bloggers arm-wrestling each other, we would be way ahead of the game. What if they gave a way and a bunch of nobodies came?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60382246382685348962009-11-06T07:40:42.527-08:002009-11-06T07:40:42.527-08:00My brother joined the Marines straight out of high...My brother joined the Marines straight out of high school. He is an independent thinker but wanted the college dough and needed a weight control program he couldn't cheat. He was big strong and smart enough. He scored above the 90%tile on the qualifying test, finished near top of boot camp class. Anyway, he said if he were ever in combat, the first guy he would shoot was the guy next to him because most were so stupid they would get them all killed. Needless to say he got out as fast as he could. He called the Marine Corps, "the big green weenie" and he wasn't going to bend over and take it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19086064578531456802009-11-06T07:08:15.823-08:002009-11-06T07:08:15.823-08:00Last time I ran the numbers, I calculated that you...<i>Last time I ran the numbers, I calculated that you had a less than 1% chance of getting seriously injured (i.e., enough to qualify for partial disability afterwords) or killed serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. So if you're one of the 99+% who comes back in one piece, you'll be light years ahead of the average young American when you get home.</i><br /><br />Yes, but more importantly, when you're in the army you live on a post where the gender balance is dire, and if you go to war, not only are you not breeding, but your wife, if you have one, is probably banging some civilian. So joining the army should tend to reduce Darwinian fitness, even given relatively low casualty rates.coldequationhttp://thecoldequations.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53048961942702148552009-11-06T06:21:07.002-08:002009-11-06T06:21:07.002-08:00It's really an 8 year commitment now? Yikes, ...It's really an 8 year commitment now? Yikes, no wonder they're having trouble recruiting.<br /><br />The anonymous anti-recruiter's comments mirror my father's. One of his choicer phrases was "it's a bunch of hurry-up-and-wait bullshit."Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70735626503361835692009-11-06T04:16:15.177-08:002009-11-06T04:16:15.177-08:00"This is discouraging, but I still favor the ..."This is discouraging, but I still favor the idea of a kind of boot camp targeted at minority males 16-24. They'd live in dorms, get a HS diploma, and learn a trade in exchange for community service like re-building slums and making sure kids get to school safely."<br /><br />They already have this, it's called "Job Corps."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83383550694261654082009-11-05T23:01:39.552-08:002009-11-05T23:01:39.552-08:00"Anonymous said...
You've just descr..."Anonymous said...<br /><br /> You've just described the entire rationale for the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, also known as the Hospital Survey and Construction Act. One of the really shocking findings coming out of the *Second* World War was how large a percentage of draft-age young men from rural areas turned out to be simply unfit for service due to poor or non-existent medical care in their childhoods (as opposed to general malnutrition in the draft pool of the First, noted by commenters above). Broken bones that had never been set properly, chronic abscesses, you name it, it was all over the place. And wit te Cold War looking to be around for awile, yes, tis was tus looked at as a serious National Security issue."<br /><br />Yes, it is interesting just how concerned for the well-being of its people a government can be, when it wants to insure a steady supply of cannon-fodder.<br /><br />I would not advise any white kid to join the military - they'll only be sent off to fight and die for an overseas empire that is the play-thing of state-department nabobs and pentagon wallahs. Our nation is no longer ours - why fight for it?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47885950789837306582009-11-05T22:07:53.253-08:002009-11-05T22:07:53.253-08:00The religious group most likely to join the milita...<b>The religious group most likely to join the military is atheists. Wouldn’t have guessed that would you. This is even controlling for IQ.</b><br /><br />Lots of young single men profess no religion. They may have been raised in one and they may yet return to one, but at the time they join they are probably no more likely to be irreligious than other men their age.<br /><br /><b>Mormons are less likely to join (maybe they become men by doing their mission)</b><br /><br />This is true, at least if you use Utah data as a surrogate for Mormon, which is fair - and it's true for the reasons you posit. Mormon men are significantly more likely to serve as officers, however. BYU, USU, UVU, and the U of Utah all have large, successful and longstanding ROTC programs.<br /><br /><b>The AP reports that the motive is unclear in today's mass murder at Ft. Hood committed by an officer named Malik Nadal Hasan.</b><br /><br />But he wasn't a terrorist!!! He was just another person who hated Americans who just happened to be Muslim!!!Jimmy Crackedcornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50266766515034605322009-11-05T19:41:10.348-08:002009-11-05T19:41:10.348-08:00"I suspect that a couple of generations from ...<i> "I suspect that a couple of generations from now, the U.S. government will issue an official apology to NAMs for the policy for the Stolen Generations of 2010-2030, and will assert that this explains their continued underperformance in the late 21st Century." </i><br />------------------<br /><br />And not only that...the government will pay out millions of dollars in compensation to all the poor unfortunates who were so cruelly ripped from the bosom of their families and forced into pre-school. <br /><br />And furthermore, they will assert that the harm done by the pre-schools not only is responsible for all the problems of the actual children who were in the pre-schools, but also their children and grandchildren.Melykinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91454426099612655012009-11-05T19:25:06.064-08:002009-11-05T19:25:06.064-08:00They're lucky they can't get in. I went i...They're lucky they can't get in. I went in during the early 70's. At least half my basic training platoon (maybe 2/3's) was on drugs. Pot and reds every day. LSD on bivouac. Imagine being a "Leave it to Beaver" or "Happy Days" type of kid in that environment.<br /><br />My advice to white kids - stay the hell out of the military - No matter what. Find anything else to do. You go in - you'll regret it. And it's an 8-year commitment now. Learn from me. Stay OUT !<br />It's not a John Wayne movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51339810291291847222009-11-05T18:59:45.724-08:002009-11-05T18:59:45.724-08:00"How about the large number of military folk ..."How about the large number of military folk who are just 64% as strong the soldiers the US fielded in Vietnam. Who in study after study have demonstrated they react with panic, rather than react with valor to very unpleasant surprises. <br /><br />Those same members of the military who have a pain threshold 20% lower than that of a Vietnam vet, and who possess 5% to 10% of the testosterone required to close with the enemy, in hand to hand combat. "<br /><br />Interesting. Links please?<br /><br />-Vanilla ThunderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12012688161714973992009-11-05T18:40:26.886-08:002009-11-05T18:40:26.886-08:00"Not obesity, but malnutrition. I don't h..."Not obesity, but malnutrition. I don't have a link but I recall reading about an awful lot of guys being rejected by draft board due to poor nutrition. Poor education was a factor in WWI to WWII. Coincidentally, poor marksmanship in WWI recruits led IIRC to the creation of the NRA."<br /><br />The NRA was created in the 1870's.Truth(er)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78995284602739566102009-11-05T18:38:45.391-08:002009-11-05T18:38:45.391-08:00I'm a bit surprised that no one has used natio...<i>I'm a bit surprised that no one has used national security or military preparedness as a reason for national health care (at least for children and teenagers). I mean, if we don't have young, healthy and fit young people joining the military, then it's a national security problem.</i><br /><br />You've just described the entire rationale for the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, also known as the Hospital Survey and Construction Act. One of the really shocking findings coming out of the *Second* World War was how large a percentage of draft-age young men from rural areas turned out to be simply unfit for service due to poor or non-existent medical care in their childhoods (as opposed to general malnutrition in the draft pool of the First, noted by commenters above). Broken bones that had never been set properly, chronic abscesses, you name it, it was all over the place. And wit te Cold War looking to be around for awile, yes, tis was tus looked at as a serious National Security issue.<br /><br />So we get Hill-Burton to provide federal grants and guaranteed loans to build scads of hospitals in the sticks, and keep them going. But in one of those law of unintended consequences things, this was passed just as the mass migration out of the cities was really getting underway, so in a few years, and to this very day, a huge percentage of the subsidized hospital network that used to be 'rural' became SUBURBAN. And they're still sucking at the public teat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87000772041580544082009-11-05T18:36:42.642-08:002009-11-05T18:36:42.642-08:00Hasan's problem is not that he was a Muslim; h...Hasan's problem is not that he was a Muslim; his problem was that he ATTENDED VIRGINIA TECH!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62779675651277119912009-11-05T18:12:36.893-08:002009-11-05T18:12:36.893-08:00Whiskey,
The NRA was founded after the Civil war b...Whiskey,<br />The NRA was founded after the Civil war by a couple of Union officers who were unhappy with the poor marksmanship of their troops - poor compared to the skills of the Southerners, at any rate.Herewardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59205206022061698802009-11-05T18:02:25.577-08:002009-11-05T18:02:25.577-08:00Take the children away from their families as much...<i>Take the children away from their families as much as possible.</i><br /><br />I've noticed this trend the past few years. Where I live there's what seems like an endless panoply of pre-K (which has never shown lasting results), before-school breakfast (frequently free) after-school programs, and summer programs. Anything to keep NAM children out of their own homes (and, not trivially, off the streets). <br /><br />It's funny to look back on how Newt Gingrich was excoriated in the mid-90s for suggesting orphanages as a way of mainstreaming underclass kids.Darwin's Sh*tlistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7088323306352938182009-11-05T17:40:55.968-08:002009-11-05T17:40:55.968-08:00What more diabolical stealth white genocide machin...<i>What more diabolical stealth white genocide machine could there be than the military?? You weed out the dumb-assess,the fatties,the criminals,the generally screwed up...and you TAKE the reasonably intelligent,able bodied,ambitious,brave,patriotic,(often,tho not always)well-informed and politically concerned,conservative,(probably)religous, all around well put together,and disproportionately kill and maim them in endless wars.Its like a self-inflicted Katyn Forest!</i><br /><br />An extremely good point. One that it is no stretch to say the future of our civilization hinges upon.<br /><br />If there must be an elite, may it be a military aristocracy.<br /><br /><i>* Not having siblings makes you more likely to join (need for fraternity? Before finding this I taught parents with only one child want to stop them from joining)<br /><br />* Having a sister makes you more likely to join than having a brother (maybe fraternity, maybe girls are better students and take the family college fund)</i><br /><br />I would have thought people would be just the opposite. I like to imagine that if I had several brothers I would join the military or some other rough and ready violent occupation right away. The brothers can pick up the slack of procreating and running the family estate in the event I get killed whilst wantonly risking my life. As it is I have sisters instead. Well, if this data is true and meaningful, it shows I can be wrong, lololDifference Makernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7743919560390918222009-11-05T17:10:15.875-08:002009-11-05T17:10:15.875-08:00Steve --
This is a recurring theme. Soldiers in t...Steve --<br /><br />This is a recurring theme. Soldiers in the Civil War, in the Spanish-American War, in WWI, and even WWI had serious problems.<br /><br />Not obesity, but malnutrition. I don't have a link but I recall reading about an awful lot of guys being rejected by draft board due to poor nutrition. Poor education was a factor in WWI to WWII. Coincidentally, poor marksmanship in WWI recruits led IIRC to the creation of the NRA.<br /><br />America has gone from in a 100 years from a nation that had significant numbers of (mostly White guys) who did not have enough to eat, and poor education, to a nation where the WRONG kind of food makes Black and Hispanic kids fat, and they also have poor education.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.com